RSR464 - Jimmy Nutt - The NuttHouse Studio In Muscle Shoals
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
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🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 138 minutes
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My guest today is Jimmy Nutt a GRAMMY Award winning Engineer, Jimmy Nutt, grew up in Shreveport Louisiana surrounded by musicians steeped in blues and rock. He joined his first band at age 13. Early on, Jimmy was interested in recording and sound. He acquired a Tascam 4-track cassette recorder while still in his teens and started learning how to record a band.
In 2000, Jimmy moved his family to Muscle Shoals, AL. to work as a staff-recording engineer at FAME Recording Studios. During his time at FAME, he recorded sessions for Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Clarence Carter, Heartland, Russell Smith, The Drive-by-Truckers and many more. He worked at FAME for almost 3 years before becoming an independent recording engineer and producer. He was also a staff writer for FAME's publishing company during this time.
Jimmy is now the owner of The NuttHouse Recording Studio, Inc. located in downtown Sheffield, Alabama. He transformed a bank built in 1955 into a recording studio and has hosted numerous recording sessions in the last 14 years including well-known artists; Percy Sledge, The Dead South, Blind Boys of Alabama, Dylan LeBlanc, Billy Ray Cyrus, Jason Isbell, John Paul White, Donna Jean Godchaux, and The SteelDrivers.
In 2016, Jimmy won a GRAMMY award for engineering and mixing the "Bluegrass Album of the Year", The SteelDrivers, "The Muscle Shoals Recordings". And In 2020, Jimmy won the Canadian Juno award for producing and mixing the "Traditional Roots Album of the Year" for The Dead South album "Sugar & Joy".
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