RSR536 - Ian Fitchuk - Grammy Winner Writer and Producer for Kacey Musgraves, Beyoncé, Chris Stapleton, and Maggie Rogers
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 109 minutes
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My guest today is Ian Fitchuk, a two-time Grammy Award–winning musician, songwriter, and producer based in Nashville. You've heard his work on Golden Hour with Kacey Musgraves - a landmark record that helped redefine the sound of modern country and pop. Ian has also collaborated with artists like Maggie Rogers, Joy Oladokun, Chris Stapleton, and Beyoncé, bringing his versatile musicianship and deep sense of songcraft to every project he touches. In this conversation, Ian shares his journey from growing up in a musical family to finding his voice as both an artist and a producer. We talk about the evolution of the Nashville music scene, how collaboration shapes every great record, and why fear can actually be one of the most powerful creative tools in the studio. Ian opens up about rediscovering his own songwriting, balancing commercial work with personal expression, and learning to embrace uncertainty as part of the artistic process. Whether you're a songwriter, producer, or studio musician, this episode is packed with insight into what it really means to make music in Nashville today - not just as a profession, but as a lifelong creative pursuit.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Recording Studio Rockstars is brought to you by Isotope, Native Instruments, |
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| 0:12.9 | In fact, you're hearing my voice right now, recorded through a Spectra-1964 STX-100 mic-Pree, |
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| 0:44.1 | Now get ready to rock. |
| 0:47.0 | We had recorded a number of songs and then this song until I found you came in randomly |
| 0:52.4 | maybe towards the end of this EP that we were making. And I just remember he came over to Conrad's. And I mean, there's not much going on in that song. It's a very few elements. And I just didn't think much about it. It wasn't that I didn't think it was a good song. I thought it was really good. But where it ended up going and the impact that it had, it's just, you just never know |
| 1:12.9 | these days. |
| 1:13.5 | It's like months and months later, it was like doing this, and then it was doing this, and |
| 1:18.8 | it was doing this, and for it being such a throwback song, you know, it's just, I think |
| 1:25.0 | it exceeded all expectations. |
| 1:37.0 | Music you know, it's just, I think it exceeded all expectations. Welcome to Recording Studio Rockstars. |
| 1:40.1 | 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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