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| Born | (1952-12-18)December 18, 1952 (age 72) New York City, U.S. |
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John Leventhal (born December 18, 1952) is an American musician, producer, songwriter, and recording engineer who has produced albums forWilliam Bell,The Blind Boys of Alabama,Michelle Branch,Rosanne Cash,Marc Cohn,Shawn Colvin,Sarah Jarosz,Rodney Crowell,Jim Lauderdale,Joan Osborne,Loudon Wainwright III andThe Wreckers. He has won six Grammy Awards.[1]
As a musician, he has worked with such artists asJackson Browne,Willie Nelson,Bruce Hornsby,Elvis Costello,Dolly Parton,Emmylou Harris,Charlie Haden,David Crosby,Levon Helm,Edie Brickell,Paul Simon,Patty Larkin,Susan Tedeschi, theTedeschi Trucks Band,Steve Forbert,Kelly Willis,Donald Fagen,Ry Cooder, andJohnny Cash.
As a songwriter, over 200 of his songs have been recorded by various artists, includingRosanne Cash,Shawn Colvin,Marc Cohn,Michelle Branch,The Tedeschi Trucks Band,Vince Gill,George Strait,Shelby Lynne,Patty Loveless,Jim Lauderdale,Joe Cocker andWilliam Bell.
In 1988, he produced and co-wrote Shawn Colvin’s Grammy winning debut albumSteady On. He arranged and played multiple instruments on Marc Cohn's 1991 hit "Walking in Memphis". In 1998, he won a Grammy Award for Record and Song of the Year for producing and co-writing the song "Sunny Came Home"[2] (a 1997 hit for Colvin). Leventhal produced and co-wrote all of the songs on Rosanne Cash's 2014 releaseThe River & the Thread. On February 8, 2015,The River & the Thread won three Grammy awards: Americana Album of the Year, Best American Roots Song for "A Feather's Not a Bird" and Best American Roots Performance for "A Feather's Not a Bird".[3]
He produced and co-wrote most of the songs on soul singer William Bell's 2016 Stax Records releaseThis Is Where I Live, which won the 2017 Grammy for Americana Album of the Year. In 2018 Leventhal produced the song "Let My Mother Live", co-written with Marc Cohn and performed by The Blind Boys Of Alabama; the song was nominated for a Grammy for Best American Roots Performance. The song "Crossing To Jerusalem" written with Rosanne Cash was nominated for Best American Roots song for the 2019 Grammys.[4] Sarah Jarosz's albumWorld on the Ground, produced by Leventhal, won the 2021 Grammy for Best Americana Album.[5]
Leventhal has produced albums that have been nominated for a total of 19 Grammy Awards.[citation needed]
In September 2015, Leventhal received theAmericana Music Association's award for Instrumentalist of the Year.[6]
Leventhal also composed scores to the filmsWinter Solstice (2004) andBig Stone Gap (2014).[7]
On January 26, 2024, Leventhal released his debut albumRumble Strip (RumbleStrip Records).[8]
John Leventhal's songs are represented byDowntown Music Publishing.[9]
Leventhal lives with his wifeRosanne Cash and their children in New York City.[10]
Leventhal's mother was of Irish and Cuban descent, and his father was Jewish.[11] In 2014,Newsweek reported "Before [Leventhal and Cash] were married by a rabbi, Johnny Cash said, 'I've been waiting 40 years for one of my daughters to marry a Jew.'"[11]
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