RSR542 - Ryan Prewett - The Sound of Retro Funk Beats in The Heart of Country: Music City
Recording Studio Rockstars
Lij Shaw
4.8 • 543 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 125 minutes
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How do you turn your studio skills into a thriving artist career? Ryan Prewett shares how funk, collaboration, and sync licensing helped him shift from producer-for-hire to full-time artist - and why building assets is the new record deal.
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My guest today is Ryan Prewett, a Nashville-based artist, producer, and mix engineer known for blending classic funk and soul with modern pop and groove-driven production. Ryan's work spans producing records, mixing, and building sample packs, and he's quickly carving out a name for himself in Nashville's creative community. His music captures the sweet spot between live musicianship and digital innovation - with an ear for timeless tone and modern punch.
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| 0:56.3 | One big thing that helped me transition was in 2015 when Uptown Funk came out. |
| 1:03.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.7 | And that's actually a Mark Ronson song featuring Bruno Mars. And most people just think it's a Bruno |
| 1:10.2 | Mars song. Right. |
| 1:11.6 | Because why wouldn't you? |
| 1:12.6 | Right. |
| 1:13.6 | But it's on a Mark Ronson album, and he's the main artist. |
| 1:17.6 | And that was kind of the first time I saw a big producer do that that wasn't like a DJ, like a dance, like Calvin Harris or one of those type artists. |
| 1:28.5 | They're doing EDM music as a producer artist. |
| 1:31.9 | And so it's like, oh, he's doing funk music, |
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