Origin United Kingdom Name Ted Hutt | Role Music Producer Music group Flogging Molly | |
Instruments Guitar, Bass, Mandolin, Banjo. Albums Float, Speed of Darkness, Drunken Lullabies, Within a Mile of Home, Alive Behind the Green Do Similar Dave King, Nathen Maxwell, Bob Schmidt, Dennis Casey, Matt Hensley | ||
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Ted Hutt is a Grammy Award Winning British music producer, musician, and song writer residing in Los Angeles, CA. He was the original guitar player and one of the founding members for The Promise, The Great Unwashed, Gods Hotel, Reacharound, and Flogging Molly. Since his departure from the band to pursue music production, Hutt has worked with The Gaslight Anthem, Flogging Molly, including their RIAA certified Gold recording Drunken Lullabies and its followup Within a Mile of Home, The Bouncing Souls, Lucero, Dropkick Murphys, Old Crow Medicine Show and Audra Mae amongst other notable artists.
In December 2008 eMusic named The '59 Sound by The Gaslight Anthem the best album of 2008. NME rated it as one of the best album of the year. The album's title track was included in Rolling Stone's top 100 songs of the year. and received an 8.6/10 rating from Pitchfork Media.
Hutt also produced the band's third album American Slang for SideOneDummy. Recorded at Magic Shop Studios NYC and released June 15, 2010 it debuted at #16 on Billboard top 200, #18 on UK top 100 and #1 on both US and UK indie top 100s. It also featured a song "The Diamond Church Street Choir" which was #39 in Rolling Stone's top 50 songs of 2010 and the album was included in a number of major publication's best of 2010 lists including Spin, Kerrang!, Uncut and the UK style and music magazine Clash. Both The '59 Sound has been certified Gold and American Slang Silver in the UK by the BPI.
Also in 2010 Hutt produced and mixed the Dropkick Murphy's Going Out In Style. Recorded in Cambridge Mass at Q Division Studio's it features a guest appearance by Bruce Springsteen. It was released March 1, 2011 entering the Billboard 200 chart at #6, making it the highest charting album in the band's history, selling 43,000 copies in its first week. He produced and Mixed Gaslight Anthem Brian Fallons new project The Horrible Crowes "Elsie" .On December 2, 2011, "Huffington Post" blogger Jon Chattman named "Elsie" the #2 album of 2011. He wrote, "Out of nowhere, this Gaslight Anthem (don't call it a) side project resonated with me so strongly. There's not a bad song on this." [11] Also Old Crow Medicine Show Carry me Back Available on CD, vinyl, and cassette,[58] the album "sold over 17,000 copies in its debut week, landing at #22 on the Billboard Albums Chart August 2012, leading to both the band's best ever sales week and their highest ever charting position. The album also was #1 on both the Bluegrass and Folk charts and is the #4 Country album in the nation"[12] It remained on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart for over 21 weeks. Later that year he produced the Dropkick Murphy's 2nd top 10 album Signed and Sealed in Blood which reached # 9 on the Billboard 200 Jan 2013 [17]
In 2014 Hutt produced and mixed the Old Crow Medicine Show album Remedy which reached # 15 on Billboard top 200 [16]and was the 57th Annual Grammy Awards winner for Best Folk Album. The song Sweet Amarillo was #20 on Rolling Stones 50 best songs of 2014.[15]
In 2015 Hutt produced and mixed Go Betty Go first recording in a decade, an EP titled "Reboot", he also produced all of their previous releases.