RSR435 - Jacquire King - Answers All Your Questions How To Make A Great Record
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
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🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 135 minutes
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My guest today is Jacquire King, a Grammy-winning music producer, mixer, and engineer with over 13 billion streams and more than 35 Grammy nominations. His extensive credits include: Tom Waits, Kings of Leon, James Bay, Shania Twain, Modest Mouse, Smash Mouth, Norah Jones, Buddy Guy, Zach Bryan, Punch Brothers, Ingrid Michelson, Cold War Kids, City and Colour and many many more. And I'm going to quote from his great website bio: "Jacquire has just one gold record hanging in his studio. It's Mule Variations by Tom Waits, a personal favorite in the mile-long list of critically acclaimed albums, multiple GRAMMY Awards, and national accolades he's earned in more than 30 years as a sought-after recording engineer and producer."
He grew up in the Washington, DC area, absorbing a rich mix of influences from reggae to punk rock. While his friends were forming hardcore bands, Jacquire was studying the noise, making cassette mixes, and learning to transform raw live music into a complex listening experience.
If he maintains one constant aesthetic in his work, it's blending traditional recording artistry with emerging tools and technology. "Curiosity moves an art form forward, so I incorporate whatever gives the artist the freedom to create. I always want to be part of that evolution."
Jacquire is committed to playing an active role in the recording industry's next chapter, serving as an ambassador for new technology and acting as a frequent mentor to up-and-coming professionals. "I don't have any studio secrets," he said. "If I can help someone figure out their own combination of talent and technology, I want to do that. If I can give an artist a new tool to make something great, count me in."
He has his own studio, The LBT, just outside of Nashville, Tennessee.
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| 0:41.2 | When you say no is if you don't think the people are going to be good people to you and respect |
| 0:46.3 | you or that you can't find one thing. Like maybe you don't like the genre of music. You know, |
| 0:51.6 | maybe it just leaves you a little bit cold in general. |
| 0:59.2 | But if you can identify one thing in that artist or that project that you can pour yourself into genuinely, then it's worth it because you will grow from the experience. Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:18.5 | I'm Lid Shaw, and this is the podcast created to help you become a rock star of the recording studio. |
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