Ryan Hadlock (born 1978) is an American record producer, best known for his production work on
platinum
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-selling album ''
The Lumineers'' by
The Lumineers.
Career
Hadlock has been around music his entire life, as his parents Joe and Manny Hadlock founded
Bear Creek Studio
Bear Creek Studio is a residential recording studio located in a barn on a 10 acre farm in Woodinville, Washington. A number of notable artists have recorded at the studio since its establishment in 1977, including: Brandi Carlile, Train (band), ...
in 1977.
The studio has remained family-owned for two generations, and is now headed by Ryan.
Joe Hadlock was in a number of
Seattle
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bands, and their family home and studio were places where creativity was always encouraged, and part of the fabric of business and socializing.
[ Ryan grew up around famous musicians, but also many talented studio players who didn't achieve fame, but taught him much about how records were crafted. Hadlock studied sound recording in London and at ]The Evergreen State College
The Evergreen State College is a public liberal arts college in Olympia, Washington. Founded in 1967, it offers a non-traditional undergraduate curriculum in which students have the option to design their own study towards a degree or follow a ...
.Abbey Road Studios
Abbey Road Studios (formerly EMI Recording Studios) is a music recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, London, Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London. It was established in November 1931 by the Gramophone Company, a predecessor of ...
and by influential Olympia indie rock band Gossip
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Etymology
The word is from Old English ''godsibb'', from ''god (word), god'' and ''sibb'', the term for the ...
, as well as the first record by Johnny Flynn,[ and has assisted ]Gil Norton
Gil Norton (born in Liverpool) is an English record producer known for his work with alternative rock bands such as Pixies, Echo & the Bunnymen, Foo Fighters, Tribe, Jimmy Eat World, Dashboard Confessional, Feeder, the Distillers, Maxïm ...
, David A. Stewart, and Joe Chiccarelli. Hadlock is known more recently for his work on Vance Joy's album '' Dream Your Life Away''.
Notable producer credits
*'' The Lumineers'' (2012)
*'' Dream Your Life Away'' (2014)
*'' From Austin'' (2022)
References
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Record producers from Washington (state)
Living people
1978 births