Tim McAllister
Encyclopedia
Tim McAllister is an American musician
, music engineer
, and producer
. He found success in the mid 1980s with his hometown band Flock 14, which relocated to Cincinnati, OH to record an album with Graceland Records. The band broke up a year after the move.
In Cincinnati, McAllister met Linford Detweiler who worked with him on his next album, recorded under the name World Theatre. Shortly after, Linford founded Over the Rhine, and McAllister engineered and co-produced the first two albums for the band. McAllister also worked with the bands Beki Hemmingway and Yum Yum Children
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Most recently, McAllister is the leader of the blues
band Papa Salty
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Engineer or Producer
Musician
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, music engineer
Audio engineering
An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
, and producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
. He found success in the mid 1980s with his hometown band Flock 14, which relocated to Cincinnati, OH to record an album with Graceland Records. The band broke up a year after the move.
In Cincinnati, McAllister met Linford Detweiler who worked with him on his next album, recorded under the name World Theatre. Shortly after, Linford founded Over the Rhine, and McAllister engineered and co-produced the first two albums for the band. McAllister also worked with the bands Beki Hemmingway and Yum Yum Children
Yum Yum Children
The Yum Yum Children are a Christian band originally from Oregon, now located in northern Idaho. Their music is similar to that of They Might Be Giants or 1970s style art rock.-Background:...
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Most recently, McAllister is the leader of the blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
band Papa Salty
Papa Salty
Papa Salty is a jump blues band residing in Portland, Oregon. The band was formed by musician Tim McAllister in 2003. The band solidified with a lineup consisting of Tim McAllister on guitar and vocals, Kevin LaBarron on saxophone, Julian Broji on drums, and Dan Davis on upright bass...
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Discography
- Flock 14, Brave New World?, self-distributed
- Flock 14, Awkward Age, Young Farmer Records
- Flock 14, Brave New World, Graceland Records
- World Theatre, Graceland Records
- A Month of Sundays, Mercy Please Records
- Papa Salty, Swing it Big!, Blues King
- Tim McAllister, Strong Tower 2007
Engineer or Producer
- Over the Rhine, Till We Have Faces (engineer, co-producer)
- Over the Rhine, Patience (engineer, co-producer)
- Beki Hemmingway, Rinse Repeat (engineer, co-producer)
- Yum Yum Children, Use to Would've (engineer, co-producer)