Ben Mumphrey
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Ben Mumphrey is an audio engineer, record producer and musician.
Some of his work credited as producer or co-producer includes the Frank Black
albums Show Me Your Tears
, 93-03 and Devil's Workshop
, all released on Cooking Vinyl Records, In The Night, the 1998 album by Famous Monsters (known mostly because the band featured White Zombie
bassist Sean Yseult
) released by Bong Load Custom Records
and The Chaos In Order by the Los Angeles group Let's Go Sailing
.
Musical releases which he engineered or engineered in-part include The Pixies' songs "Bam Thwok
" (which, on June 23, 2004, was the first official Number One track on the UK Download Chart) and "Ain't That Pretty At All" (a Warren Zevon
cover from the Artemis Records
album Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon), Frank Black's albums Black Letter Days
(Cooking Vinyl), Honeycomb
(EMI
/ Back Porch Records
), One More Road For The Hit and Snake Oil, The Breeders' 2009 EP, Fate to Fatal (on which he also played bass guitar on the track "Pinnacle Hollow"), the 2008 4AD Records album Mountain Battles
and the song "German Demonstration" (the B-side to the vinyl 7" single, "We're Gonna Rise"), "Goin' Home" by B.B. King with Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk (the title track from the Vanguard Records
album Goin' Home: A Tribute To Fats Domino
), Alligator Records
' American Patchwork by Anders Osborne
, Sub Pop Records' Dynamite Steps
by The Twilight Singers
and Saturnalia
by The Gutter Twins
and Bloodshot Records
' Can You Deal With It? by Andre Williams
& the New Orleans Hellhounds
. He also engineered and played drums on the vinyl 7" single "Hard Luck Guy" by Greg Dulli
(also featuring Quintron), released in 2007 by Shake-It Records as part of a series covering the songs of the late Muscle Shoals
guitarist and songwriter Eddie Hinton
.
Mumphrey has been the chief engineer at Studio in the Country
, in Washington Parish, LA since 2007.
Some of his work credited as producer or co-producer includes the Frank Black
Frank Black
Black Francis is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the frontman of the influential alternative rock band Pixies, with whom he performs under the stage name Black Francis. Following the band's breakup in 1993, he embarked on a solo career under the name Frank Black...
albums Show Me Your Tears
Show Me Your Tears
Show Me Your Tears is the final album to be released to date by Frank Black and the Catholics. The album employs a wide range of guests, including piano and an arrangement by maverick composer Van Dyke Parks on the final track...
, 93-03 and Devil's Workshop
Devil's Workshop
Devil's Workshop is the second of a pair of albums by Frank Black and the Catholics to be simultaneously released on August 20, 2002 . 'His Kingly Cave' was originally recorded for an aborted album project in mid-2000 entitled Sunday Sunny Mill Valley Groove Day...
, all released on Cooking Vinyl Records, In The Night, the 1998 album by Famous Monsters (known mostly because the band featured White Zombie
White Zombie
White Zombie was a Grammy Award-nominated American heavy metal band. Based in New York City, White Zombie was originally a noise rock band. White Zombie are better-known for their later heavy metal-oriented sound...
bassist Sean Yseult
Sean Yseult
Sean Yseult is an American rock musician. She has played various instruments with different bands over the years, most notably her bass work with the band White Zombie. Her father, Michael S. Reynolds, was a noted biographer of Ernest Hemingway...
) released by Bong Load Custom Records
Bong Load Custom Records
Bong Load Custom Records is an independent record label based in Los Angeles which was founded by producers Tom Rothrock, Rob Schnapf and partner Bradshaw Lambert. One of their biggest signings was Beck in 1991. Other notable bands from the original Bong Load Custom Records include Fu Manchu, Wool,...
and The Chaos In Order by the Los Angeles group Let's Go Sailing
Let's Go Sailing (band)
Let’s Go Sailing are an American indie band founded by Shana Levy in 2002. After several years of work, the group completed their first album in 2006 and released it nationally in 2007...
.
Musical releases which he engineered or engineered in-part include The Pixies' songs "Bam Thwok
Bam Thwok
"Bam Thwok" is a 2004 download-only single by the American alternative rock band Pixies. The song was written and sung by bassist Kim Deal, and released exclusively through the iTunes Store on June 15, 2004. Upon its release, "Bam Thwok" was a commercial success, debuting at number one on the very...
" (which, on June 23, 2004, was the first official Number One track on the UK Download Chart) and "Ain't That Pretty At All" (a Warren Zevon
Warren Zevon
Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known...
cover from the Artemis Records
V2 Records
V2 Records is a record label that is owned by Universal Music Group as of October 2007. The label was founded in 1996 by Richard Branson, five years after he sold Virgin Records to EMI....
album Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon), Frank Black's albums Black Letter Days
Black Letter Days
Black Letter Days is the first of two albums by Frank Black and the Catholics simultaneously released in 2002...
(Cooking Vinyl), Honeycomb
Honeycomb (album)
Honeycomb is the tenth studio album by American alternative rock musician Frank Black, released in July 2005 on Back Porch Records. His first original solo work since 1996's The Cult of Ray, Honeycomb was recorded in Nashville, and features notable local session musicians, such as Steve Cropper and...
(EMI
EMI
The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
/ Back Porch Records
Back Porch Records
Back Porch Records is an Americana/Roots rock label owned by EMI Music. The label was started in 1997 as joint venture between Virgin Records and Milwaukee-based Narada Productions. The labels initial releases, including the popular I-10 Chronicles compilations, were produced by Virgin Records...
), One More Road For The Hit and Snake Oil, The Breeders' 2009 EP, Fate to Fatal (on which he also played bass guitar on the track "Pinnacle Hollow"), the 2008 4AD Records album Mountain Battles
Mountain Battles
Mountain Battles is the fourth album from the American alternative rock band The Breeders. The album was released on April 7, 2008 by 4AD in the United Kingdom and April 8, 2008 in the United States....
and the song "German Demonstration" (the B-side to the vinyl 7" single, "We're Gonna Rise"), "Goin' Home" by B.B. King with Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk (the title track from the Vanguard Records
Vanguard Records
Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...
album Goin' Home: A Tribute To Fats Domino
Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino
Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino is a 2007 tribute album by various artists to Fats Domino, issued by Vanguard Records.-History:In contrast to an earlier tribute album, That's Fats: A Tribute to Fats Domino , which mostly contained previously released cover versions, Goin' Home: A Tribute to...
), Alligator Records
Alligator Records
Alligator Records is a Chicago-based independent blues record label founded by Bruce Iglauer in 1971.Iglauer started the label with his own savings to record and produce his favorite band Hound Dog Taylor & The HouseRockers, whom his employer, Bob Koester of Delmark Records, declined to record...
' American Patchwork by Anders Osborne
Anders Osborne
Anders Osborne is a songwriter and singer.Anders was born in 1966 in Uddevalla, Sweden, left home at age sixteen, and hitchhiked and played music throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the U.S...
, Sub Pop Records' Dynamite Steps
Dynamite Steps
Dynamite Steps is the fifth full-length album by Greg Dulli's The Twilight Singers. It was released on February 15, 2011, in the US and February 14, 2011, worldwide via Sub Pop on CD and double 12" white-colored vinyl. The UK release date was set at 29 August, 2011.The Sub Pop pre-order for...
by The Twilight Singers
The Twilight Singers
The Twilight Singers is an American indie rock band. The group was initially formed as a side project of The Afghan Whigs leader Greg Dulli in 1997...
and Saturnalia
Saturnalia (album)
Saturnalia is the first studio album by The Gutter Twins, a collaboration between Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan. The album, which was started as far back as 2003, was released on March 4, 2008. Prior to the album's release, the duo began posting songs on their official MySpace page...
by The Gutter Twins
The Gutter Twins
The Gutter Twins is a musical collaboration between rock musicians Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan. Dulli and Lanegan have regularly contributed to each other's projects since 2000, most notably in Dulli's Twilight Singers; of the duo's origins, Dulli said "I think Mark told a journalist we were doing...
and Bloodshot Records
Bloodshot Records
Bloodshot Records is an independent record label based in Chicago, Illinois which specializes in roots-inflected indie rock, punk blues, and a Chicago brand of outlaw country...
' Can You Deal With It? by Andre Williams
Andre Williams
Andre Williams is an American R&B and punk blues musician who started his career in the 1950s at Fortune Records in Detroit.-Biography:...
& the New Orleans Hellhounds
Morning 40 Federation
Morning 40 Federation is a jazz, funk and rock band from the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. The band began in 1998 and cites influences of King Oliver, Tom Waits and Jon Spencer. The Morning 40 Federation disbanded after their last show at One Eyed Jacks on Toulouse Street in New Orleans . They have...
. He also engineered and played drums on the vinyl 7" single "Hard Luck Guy" by Greg Dulli
Greg Dulli
-Biography:Greg Dulli was born and brought up in the working-class city of Hamilton, Ohio. Although he was raised a Catholic, he is now agnostic. Dulli first came to public attention in the late 1980s with The Afghan Whigs when he joined D.C. transplant bassist John Curley and Louisville, Kentucky,...
(also featuring Quintron), released in 2007 by Shake-It Records as part of a series covering the songs of the late Muscle Shoals
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, also known as The Swampers, are a group of American soul, R&B, and country studio musicians based in the town of Muscle Shoals, Alabama...
guitarist and songwriter Eddie Hinton
Eddie Hinton
Eddie Hinton was an American songwriter and session musician best known for his work with soul music and R&B singers...
.
Mumphrey has been the chief engineer at Studio in the Country
Studio in the Country
Studio in the Country is a recording studio located at 21443 Hwy 436 in Washington Parish, Louisiana.The studio opened in 1973, conceived and owned at that time by recording engineer on a 26-acre pine forest located near New Orleans, LA between Bogalusa, LA and Varnado, LA. The studio is...
, in Washington Parish, LA since 2007.