Malcolm Burn (born October 4, 1960) is a Canadian -born music producer, recording engineer and musician . In 2001, the album Red Dirt Girl Emmylou Harris and produced by Burn won best folk album.
Born in Cornwall, Ontario , Burn grew up in Deep River, Ontario and became lead singer/keyboardist for the 1980s Canadian band Boys Brigade. Following the dissolution of that group, he turned towards music production and solo work.
In 1988 Burn relocated to New Orleans where he would work with Daniel Lanois (known for his work with U2 & Peter Gabriel ) on a number of projects. Their collaboration began with Burn playing keyboards and guitar on Lanois' solo debut record Acadie Bob Dylan on his acclaimed album Oh Mercy Yellow Moon by The Neville Brothers and Living with the Law Chris Whitley .
Burn produced projects with Blue Rodeo , Emmylou Harris (Red Dirt Girl Stumble into Grace Midnight Oil (Breathe Patty Griffin , Crash Vegas (Red Earth Patti Smith (Gone Again
Burn continues to produce, record and write music. He is making a documentary film tentatively entitled Touched about a group home for mentally ill people in Kingston, New York .
Awards and recognition 2001: Winner - Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album , with Jim Watts (engineer) and Emmylou Harris for Red Dirt Girl 2004: Nominee - Juno Award for "Producer of the Year" for "Here I Am" / "I Will Dream", Emmylou Harris 1983 - Boys Brigade (Anthem/Capitol Records) - album produced by Geddy Lee of Rush 1988 - Redemption 1996 - After Dinner Mints (Handsome Boy Records) - under band name: Pregnant 1982 - Blue Peter - "Chinese Graffiti" from Up To You (keyboards) 1988 - Daniel Lanois - Acadie 1988 - Crash Vegas - Red Earth 1988 - Blue Rodeo - Diamond Mine 1989 - Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy 1989 - The Neville Brothers - Yellow Moon (recorded/musician/mix) 1990 - Chris Whitley - Living with the Law (producer/musician/mix) 1991 - The Neville Brothers - Brothers Keeper (producer/musician/mix) 1992 - Daniel Lanois - For the Beauty of Wynona 1992 - The Devlins - Drift (producer/musician) 1992 - Lisa Germano - Happiness 1993 - Iggy Pop - American Caesar 1993 - John Mellencamp - Human Wheels 1994 - Giant Sand - Glum (producer/musician) 1994 - Charlie Sexton Sextet - Under the Wishing Tree (producer/musician/mix) 1994 - Junkhouse - Strays 1995 - Junkhouse - Birthday Boy 1996 - Midnight Oil - Breathe 1996 - Patti Smith - "Gone Again" (producer) 1998 - Astrid - Boy For You (producer/musician) 1998 - Better Than Ezra - How Does Your Garden Grow? (producer/engineer/mix) 1998 - Sinéad Lohan - No Mermaid (producer/engineer/musician) 1999 - Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl (producer/engineer/musician) 2000 - The Normals - Coming to Life (producer/mix) 2001 - Luthea Salom - Out Of Without (producer/engineer/musician) 2005 - Chris Whitley - Soft Dangerous Shores 2007 - Luthea Salom - Sunbeam Surrounded By Winter (producer/engineer/musician) 2008 - A Fragile Tomorrow - Beautiful Noise 2008 - Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge 2009 - Sandrine -Dark Fades Into Light (producer/engineer) 2010 - Amilia Spicer - (mixer) 2011 - Richard Buckner - Our Blood 2013 - Gérald de Palmas - De Palmas - (producer) 2013 - Jill Cohn - Yellow Rose - (producer/musician) 2013 - The Grahams - Rivermans Daughter - (producer/musician/mixer) 2014 - Hubertus Roesch - Waiting For This Train - (producer/musician/mixer) 2014 - Dan Whitley - Calling all Gods - (producer/engineer) 
