Contact: ryanhadlock@7smgmt.com

Ryan Hadlock is a producer, engineer, and mixer based in Seattle, WA. While best known for his Grammy-nominated work with The Lumineers, Brandi Carlile, and ARIA-winner Vance Joy, he has worked on hundreds of recordings in the past two decades. Ryan frequently travels to Los Angeles, New York, and London to work with various artists, though Bear Creek Studio in suburban Woodinville remains his home base and creative haven. Ryan grew up on the Bear Creek property, which was developed into a studio by his parents in 1978. As a teenager, he assisted in sessions with producers Dave Steward, Gill Norton, and Terry Date, recording artists such as Heart, Lionel Richie, Eric Clapton, Soundgarden, and the Foo Fighters.

Ryan started recording and producing independently in 1998, working with indie rock icons The Black Heart Procession, Blonde Redhead, The Afghan Whigs, and Stephen Malkmus. He received critical acclaim for producing The Gossip, Johnny Flynn, Ra Ra Riot, and Milo Greene. Ryan enjoys working with diverse bands and genres and with clients from both indie and major labels. What draws him to a project is the energy his clients have and their passion for songwriting. “Though you ultimately work for the band,” he says, “above all, you have a responsibility to capture the power of a great song. That’s what I seek to do—make sure the recording itself serves the song, as well as the band.”

In 2014 Ryan won the “Best Roots & Traditional Album of the Year” JUNO Award for producing The Strumbella’s “We Still Move On Dance Floors.” Success continued with Vance Joy’s “Dream Your Life Away,” recognized by Rolling Stone as an engaging follow-up to the viral single “Riptide.” Recent releases include Brandi Carlile’s Grammy-nominated album “The Firewatcher’s Daughter” on ATO, Catherine Britt’s “Boneshaker” on Lost Highway, and Vance Joy’s single “Fire and Flood” on Atlantic. Ra Ra Riot returned to Bear Creek and worked with Ryan on their new album “Need Your Light” on Barsuk.

Contact: bentanner@7smgmt.com

Ben Tanner is a record producer, audio engineer, mixer, and musician born, raised and currently based in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Tanner began work at the iconic FAME Recording as the studio’s chief engineer and studio manager, later leaving to focus full-time of producing while launching Single Lock Records with John Paul White (The Civil Wars).
 
Tanner's credits include St Paul and the Broken Bones’ debut album Half The City, Dylan LeBlanc's critically acclaimed Cautionary Tale, Lera Lynn’s Plays Well With Others duets album, Maggie Rose's No One Gets Out Alive, and The Secret Sister's Man Mind Medicine album. Tanner has also been the keyboardist for Alabama Shakes since 2011 and performed on both of the band’s Grammy-winning and nominated albums, Boys and Girls and Sound and Color.

Contact: tedhutt@7smgmt.com

Ted Hutt is a British GRAMMY® Award-winning record producer, musician, songwriter and mixer residing in Los Angeles, California.

Hutt came to America as a musician to work with producer Jimmy Iovine, who he credits for inspiring his own shift from performer to producer. The most important lesson Iovine imparted on Hutt is that it’s about the musician, not just the song. The goal should be to sustain a career rather than just a series of singles. The producer’s aim should be to build and promote an overall project as opposed to only focusing on the song. Hutt’s key to cracking the creative code with an artist is to build a working relationship based on trust, and a musician himself, Hutt easily relates to the rewards and challenges of touring, recording and promoting an album. His diverse skills as a musician allow him to pick up an instrument and dig into songs with the artist, and because of this unique skill set, multiple acts have returned time and again to Hutt as producer.

Hutt was a founding member and the original guitar player for Flogging Molly but found it more gratifying to work on multiple projects as producer. “I wanted to make records that I’d want to have in my own collection,” said Hutt. After his departure from the band, he was enlisted to produce, mix and co-write their RIAA Gold-selling recording Drunken Lullabies, its follow up Within a Mile of Home and the RIAA Platinum-selling Whisky on a Sunday.

Other artists that Hutt has worked with multiple times include the Bouncing Souls, with whom he made two albums. Lucero recorded a trilogy of albums with Ted at the legendary Ardent studios in Memphis. Hutt has also worked repeatedly with the Gaslight Anthem, producing their critically acclaimed, BPI Gold-certified breakthrough record The 59 Sound and the follow up American Slang (BPI certified silver). Frontman Brian Fallon also tapped Hutt’s expertise for his subsequent work with Horrible Crowes and for his solo record Sleepwalkers.

One of Hutt’s longest standing relationships is with Dropkick Murphys who have come back to him across six albums, three of them making Top 10 in Billboard 200, including duets with Bruce Springsteen, Nikki Lane, Turnpike Troubadours, Evan Felker and Jaime Wyatt.

Hutt also produced Old Crow Medicine Show on their GRAMMY® winning/Billboard Top 20 record, Remedy, as well as albums for Violent Femmes, Tiger Army, The Devil Makes Three, Audra Mae, Go Betty Go, Dustbowl Revival and Nahko and Medicine for the People (Hoka won the Native American Music Awards (NAMA) Album of the Year) and Dom Flemons record for Smithsonian Folkways. Hutt teamed up with The Mighty Mighty Bosstones for four albums, including a co-production with Tim Armstrong that featured contributions from Interrupters, Fishbone and Stranger Cole.

Always keeping his musical chops fresh, Hutt also writes and plays in Walker Roaders, a band he shares with James Fearnley (Pogues) Marc Orrell (Dropkick Murphys) and fellow producer Brad Wood.

Contact: justinglasco@7smgmt.com

Justin Glasco is a songwriter, producer, multi instrumentalist and engineer. His recent work has been recognized in the top 10 billboard producer and alternative record charts, earned a grammy nomination and has landed countless sync placements. Justin's continued work with both legacy artists and emerging talent, as well as his groundbreaking work with UK artist Paris Paloma showcase his ability to both listen to the needs of the song and push to explore the sonic possibilities. 

Recent collaborators: Paris Paloma, Gatlin, Moby, The Lone Bellow, Brandy Clark, Peggy, LACES, Brett Dennen, Imagine Dragons, Rufus Wainwright, Merrick Winter, Monica Martin, Annabel Lee, Jeremy Silver, Scary Pockets, Wild Rivers, Tiny Habits, and YMUSIC.

Contact: davisnaish@7smgmt.com

Topliner/Producer/Multi-Instrumentalist in Los Angeles, CA, mentored by David Hodges. 

Recent releases with Matt Hansen, Thomas Day, Forest Blakk, Wrabel, Nate Smith, Violet Days, Lily Meola, Christian French, Bethany Cosentino, Hayd and Katelyn Tarver.  Additionally, Davis produced and co-wrote Joshua Bassett's EP "Sad Songs in a Hotel Room," as well as co-wrote Grammy-nominated Top 20 single “Stick That In Your Country Song” by Eric Church. 

He releases music under Davis Naish and The Night Lands.

Upcoming Releases: Jelly Roll, Anna Graves, Blake Rose, Billy Raffoul, Maggie Rose.

Recent Sessions: Mikky Ekko, Jon Decious, Natalie Hemby, Steph Jones, Hank Compton, Michael Matosic, Maggie Rose, Anna Graves, Simon Wilcox, Annie Schindel, Riley Biederer, McKay Stevens, Yam Haus, Lauren LaRue, Sean Van Vleet

Contact: DAS@7smgmt.com 

Dave Schools is a critically acclaimed bass player and founding member of American rock band Widespread Panic. He is also an accomplished producer, songwriter and journalist with articles published in a wide variety of music magazines. Schools lives in Sonoma County, California with his wife and two dogs; when not on tour he likes to garden.

Schools is an innovator on the bass with a non-traditional approach that has given him a unique voice on the instrument. With his primary band, Widespread Panic, he plays a six-string Modulus Quantum 6 bass that affords him a wide range of sounds that are further enhanced by an array of effects pedals. Influenced by an early desire to play drums and childhood piano lessons, Schools has deviated from, though not abandoned, the established rhythm role of the bass and created a more melodic, improvisational style that has been referred to as “lead bass.”

Contact: walkerlukens@7smgmt.com

Austin, TX-based songwriter has become well known for embracing contradiction, "blending genres and techniques" (Billboard) into a sound that's hard to pin down. NPR's All Songs Considered described him as a "rhythmic sound effect master" who creates "curious, textured music," while World Cafe called it "wonderfully inventive."

“I’ve never wanted to be one of those songwriters who compartmentalizes what part of their lives comes out in their songs," he says. "I wanted to deal with Trump, and Charlottesville, and the 'Me Too' movement alongside things like breaking up and falling in love." Lukens took creative inspiration from work like Bob Dylan's famously wide-ranging double LP 'Blonde on Blonde' as well as Frank Ocean's 'Blonde' while writing and recording ADULT.

"That, to me, is the trick - making something personal and political that doesn't try to make sense of itself," he says. 'ADULT' was produced by Spoon drummer Jim Eno, and features new tracks along with the previously released singles "Baby" and "Tear It Out My Heart."