John Joseph "Jay" Joyce is an American

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, songwriter and

session musician Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances. The term sideman is also used in the case of live performances, such as accompanying a recording artist on a ...

. In the 1990s, Joyce, with Chris Feinstein and Brad Pemberton, recorded and toured as Iodine and began working as a

, working with artists such as The Wallflowers,

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, Patty Griffin, White Reaper and Cage the Elephant. In the 2000s, Joyce began producing for Eric Church, Halestorm, Zac Brown Band, Brandy Clark, Amos Lee, Declan McKenna, Fidlar and

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. He has also played guitar for

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, The Wallflowers, John Hiatt,

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and

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. In recent years the Grammy Award-Winning Producer of the Year has worked with

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, Brothers Osborne and Miranda Lambert, as well as played a major role in helping newcomers Ashley McBryde,

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and

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find unique sounds and hone their songwriting abilities. In 2014 Joyce partnered with Warner/Chappell to establish Neon Cross Music, a publishing company with a roster of rock, pop and country artists and writers. Joyce has also received four CMA Awards and five ACM Awards including Producer of the Year. In 2018, rock critic Rob Harvilla of "The Ringer" named Joyce "the most influential—and hardest-rocking—man in Country music."

Discography

Songwriting discography

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