Radar: Producer William Garrett

I recently spoke with producer William Garrett. William is probably best known for his work as lead producer of Spotify Singles where artists re-recorded one of their original songs alongside a cover of their choice. Over the course of this project, he recorded an amazing array of artists. The list is wild. I’ll just shout out some of my favorites because it would be too lengthy to list 750 of them.

Yo la Tengo, Jack White, Idles, The Hives, Orville Peck, Toots and the Maytals, Yo-Yo Ma, Muse, Elton John, Lily Allen, Florence + The Machine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem…you get the idea.

Before all that he was roaming around studios in NYC & Boston working on early Sugar Hill Gang, Afika Baambaatta and multiple albums with John Cale. We talk about ALL this. 

Recently, he worked with Jon Batiste on the soundtrack to the movie Saturday Night, and the Beethoven Blues album. Just completed an album with the Shedrick Mitchell Trio and he’s doing a song with Amber Rubarth, Sara Bareilles and Celisse. Just started a new album with Bandits on the Run, recording in a house in the Catskills, building a studio there from scratch. 

 

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ICKDNK: Dylan Hundley is an artist & performer. She is the co-creator and lead singer of Lulu Lewis & creator of all things at Darling Black. She co-curates & hosts Salon Lulu which is a New York based multidisciplinary performance series. She is also a cast member of the classic New York film Metropolitan.