Mark Addison
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Mark Addison (born March 23, 1957) is an American songwriter, musician, producer and arranger, and owner/operator of the Aerie recording studio in Austin, Texas.
He has written or cowritten songs recorded by Cher, Joan Baez, Edwin McCain and Gene Simmons of Kiss, and has written songs with Hanson, Maia Sharp, Tracy Bonham, Paul Thorn, Charlie Sexton, Freedy Johnston, Italian artist Zucchero and others.
His production credits include multiple albums by Sharp, Guy Forsyth, Ian Moore, Wendy Colonna, Jess Klein, Irish artist Mundy, the Band of Heathens, Matt the Electrician, Matt McCormack and Will Sexton, and albums by Bob Schneider, Patrice Pike and David Garza. He also produced two albums by Kitty Gordon, the Austin-based band he formed after his previous band, the Borrowers, broke up.
Addison was a member of Cleveland band the Generators, used as the model for the band in the Light of Day. A Generators lyric in their song, "U.S.A.", inspired the original film title, Born in the U.S.A.
Early life[edit]
Addison was born in London, England, and moved to America at age six when his opera-director father took a job in New York City. The family moved to Cleveland, Ohio when Addison was nine.[1]
As a child, he studied piano and music theory, then guitar. He started his first band in eighth grade.
Musical career[edit]
1980s-1990s: Cleveland and California[edit]
In Cleveland, Addison joined Buzzy Linhart & the Buzzards,[2] which morphed into the Generators. In the book, Cleveland Rock 'n' Roll Memories, former Cleveland club owner Dewey Forward said of Addison's work with the Generators, "His music was just superb, maybe the best stuff that ever came out of Cleveland."[3] In 2017, the website Cleveland.com included the Generators' 1980 song "TV Set" on a list titled "101 Most Important Songs in Cleveland Music History".[4]
Director Paul Schrader followed the Generators as research for his film, Light of Day.[5][6] He gave the film its original title, Born in the U.S.A., after hearing the lyric, "I can't help it, I was born in the U.S.A." in the Generators' song, "U.S.A."[7] (Bruce Springsteen appropriated that phrase for his song, "Born in the U.S.A.", then wrote "Light of Day" for the film.)[8][9] Addison, an uncredited script consultant, also recruited Trent Reznor (pre-Nine Inch Nails)[10] and Frank Vale for the fictional band the Problems, and arranged the song they perform.[11]
After touring with 1960s pop icons Gary Lewis & the Playboys, Addison formed Nation of One, which released a self-titled album in 1986.[12]
Addison recorded and produced other Cleveland bands, then moved to Los Angeles in the late 1980s. In 1993, he formed the Borrowers, named California's top unsigned band at Rhino Records' 1993 Troubadours of Folk Festival[1][13][14]
After appearing at the 1994 South By Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas, they were offered a joint publishing contract with Crossfire Entertainment and Almo-Irving Rondor Music.[1]
The Plain Dealer reporter Michael Norman wrote of the SXSW showcase, "The Borrowers are the real thing — a stunning four-piece acoustic folk outfit that mixes Addison's beautifully melodic songs with rock attitude and slightly quirky instrumentation."[15]
In 1995, the Borrowers signed with Guardian/EMI and recorded their self-titled 1996 album, for which Addison wrote or co-wrote each track, contributed vocals and played several instruments.[16] In a 1997 review of a Borrowers performance, Plain Dealer contributor Carlo Wolff referred to "Cleveland legend Mark Addison" and wrote, "[The Borrowers'] best tunes display compassion, an affection for the cream of the Beatles and Squeeze, and unusual talent."[17]
That same year, Addison and Italian rapper Jovanotti co-wrote English lyrics for "Alleluja",[18][19] recorded by Italian pop-rock singer Zucchero Sugar Fornaciari (known as Zucchero) for his top-selling album Spirito DiVino (Stray Cat in a Mad Dog City)..[20][21]
After singer-songwriter Maia Sharp met Addison while attending California State University at Northridge, they co-wrote "Don't Come Around Tonite," which Cher covered for the 1995 European version of her album, It's a Man's World.[22][23][24] Sharp later told campus publication CSUN Today that Addison originally pitched the song to manager and I.R.S. Records founder Miles Copeland for the Go-Go's lead singer Belinda Carlisle.[25]
Addison has attended two songwriting retreats at Copeland's Château de Marouatte castle outside of Perigeux, France,[26] where he wrote with Tracy Bonham, Willy Porter, Hanson, Jill Sobule and others.
On Sharp's 1997 debut album, Hardly Glamour, Addison cowrote the track, "I Need This to Be Love," produced that track and "Brownstone," and played on seven tracks.[27] In a profile on the Night Eagle Cafe website, Sharp said of "I Need This to Be Love," the album's first single, "My cowriter, Mark Addison, suggested we write a Thelma and Louise type song."[28] She also recorded "Don't Come Around Tonight"—with the correct spelling.[29] Addison also coproduced her 2002 album, Maia Sharp, and on 2005's Fine Upstanding Citizen, he cowrote and produced the track, "Kinder Blues."[30][31][32]
1990s – 2020s: Austin, Texas[edit]
In 1996, Addison moved to Austin and built the Slaughterhouse Studio (named for its location off Slaughter Lane), with a vintage Quad Eight Pacifica mixing console. Addison and other Quad Eight disciples eventually helped revive the company.)[33]
With Borrowers' drummer Nina Singh, Addison also formed the band Kitty Gordon.[34] Austin Chronicle writer Margaret Moser characterized their sound as "charm-injected power pop".[35] Chronicle writer Andy Langer called their Addison-produced debut EP, Seven, "a virtually flawless 24 minutes of pop".[1]
In 1997, folk legend Joan Baez recorded Addison's song, "Mercy Bound," on her Gone from Danger album;[36][37] he performed it with her at the Newport Folk Festival.[38] Edwin McCain recorded "Mercy Bound" for his 2011 album of the same name.[39] The Borrowers' version, recorded first, appears on the Fast Folk Musical Magazine compilation, Los Angeles 1993,[40] and on the Borrowers' self-titled 1996 release, along with "Nervous Heart," which Addison cowrote with Borrowers bandmate Josef Zimmerman.[41] That song is included on the soundtrack to the film Bed of Roses.[42]
In 2000, Addison opened the Aerie Studio,[43][38] where he has served as producer, engineer, mixer, performer and/or writer on albums, EPs, singles and tracks recorded by Schneider, Forsyth,[44] Will Sexton, Sara Hickman, Hayes Carll, Patrice Pike, David Garza, Jon Dee Graham, Jess Klein (whom he also managed)[45] and many others (see partial discography below).
In 2004, Addison produced, engineered and performed on Irish artist Mundy's Raining Down Arrows, debuted at No. 1 on the Irish album chart and went platinum.[46]
While recording at Aerie, Gene Simmons of Kiss heard the Kitty Gordon song "Somebody Beautiful" and recorded new vocals over the band's instrumental tracks on his solo album, Asshole.[38]
In 2005, Addison produced Forsyth's Love Songs: For and Against, and co-wrote the song "Long Long Time". AllMusic gave the album 4.5 stars. Both song and album earned Austin Music Award nominations.[47][48]
Other notable credits include cowriting the Hanson song, "Breaktown," which appears in their 2006 documentary, Strong Enough to Break, and on their 2018 album, String Theory; producing Wendy Colonna's "A Happy Song" for Coca-Cola's animated "Building" commercial, which topped Ad Week's rankings when it debuted in 2014;[49][50] and producing ONETWOTHREESCREAM singer-songwriter Jana Pochop's "You Lit Me," which won Best Pop Song in the 2019 Hollywood Songwriting Contest.[51] He also has produced all three volumes of the Holiday HAAM Jam compilation albums benefiting the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians.[52]
Addison is an original member of the advisory board for Black Fret, an Austin nonprofit that provides grants, professional support and mentorship to area musicians.[53][54]
Select discography[edit]
Year | Title | Artist | Notes |
1995 | Spirito DiVino | Zucchero "Sugar" Fornaciari | Cowriter – "Alleluja"[18] |
1995 | It's A Man's World | Cher | Cowriter – "Don't Come Around Tonite"[55] |
1996 | The Borrowers[56] | The Borrowers | Vocals, guitar, keyboards, pump organ, melodica, writer/cowriter all tracks |
1996 | Bed of Roses soundtrack[16] | Various artists | Vocals, guitar, cowriter of the Borrowers track, "Nervous Heart," from The Borrowers |
1997 | Hardly Glamour | Maia Sharp | Producer – "I Need This to be Love," "Brownstone"; various instruments and effects, backing vocals for "I Need This to be Love," "Good Thing," "The Apology," "Brownstone," "Don't Come Around Tonight," "Solitaire," "Virtues of Madness"; cowriter – "I Need This to be Love," "Don't Come Around Tonight" |
1997 | Gone from Danger[57][58] | Joan Baez | Writer – "Mercy Bound" |
1999 | Seven | Kitty Gordon[34][59] | Producer, engineer, mixer, guitars, bass, keyboards, melodica, drums, vocals, cowriter |
1999 | Ian Moore's got the Green Grass[60] | Ian Moore | Producer, engineer, mixer, various instruments, vocals |
2001 | You'll Never Get to Heaven if You Break My Heart | Jeff Klein | Producer, engineer, mixer |
2002 | The Galaxy Kings | Bob Schneider | Producer, engineer, mixer, slide guitar, Wurlitzer piano, backing vocals |
2004 | Raining Down Arrows | Mundy | Producer, engineer, guitars, bass, keyboards |
2004 | Asshole | Gene Simmons | Producer, engineer; cowriter – "Beautiful" |
2004 | A Strange Mess of Flowers | David Garza | Producer, engineer, mixer on "Black Music," "American Crawl," "Lullaby of Barland" |
2005 | Love Songs: For and Against | Guy Forsyth | Producer, engineer, mixer, guitars, keyboards; cowriter – "Long Long Time," "105," "Beautiful Mistake," "On My Own," "So Hard" |
2006 | Live from Momo's | The Band of Heathens | Producer, engineer, mixer[61] |
2007 | Letter | Jeremy Nail | Producer, engineer, mixer, various instruments, backing vocals |
2007 | "Forbidden" (single) | Brian Keane[62] | Producer, engineer, mixer, electric guitar |
2008 | Steel Bridge Songs Vol. 2 & 3 | Holiday Music Motel | Co-writer, harmony vocalist – "Door County Girl" with Freedy Johnston[63] |
2009 | Bus Stop Gossip, Other Lies and Respected Crimes | Will Sexton[64] [65] | Producer, engineer, mixer, mastering engineer, guitar, bass, keyboards; cowriter – "Penny Dreamers" (with Will and Charlie Sexton), "Perfect Lie" |
2009 | Echo | Maia Sharp | various instruments, backing vocals; cowriter – "Polite Society," "John Q. Lonely," "Unbreakable," "Angel on My Shoulder" |
2009 | One Foot in the Ether | The Band of Heathens | Coproducer, engineer, mixer[66] |
2010 | Absence of Blame | Sara Hickman | Producer, engineer, mixer, various instruments, backing vocals; cowriter – "Before You Change Your Mind" |
2011 | 90 Miles an Hour | Brian Keane | Producer, engineer, various instruments, backing vocals; cowriter – "Two of You" |
2011 | Call it My Garden | Carrie Elkin | Coproducer, engineer, mixer, organ, glockenspiel, percussion |
2012 | Behind a Veil[67] | Jess Klein | As "Professor Feathers": producer, engineer, mixer, mastering engineer, various instruments, backing vocals; cowriter – "Mona" |
2012 | Accidental Thief | Matt the Electrician | Coproducer, engineer, cowriter |
2013 | Mercy Bound | Edwin McCain | Writer – "Mercy Bound"[68] |
2013 | The Calling | Patrice Pike | Producer, engineer, mixer, mastering engineer, various instruments and effects, backing vocals |
2014 | Nectar | Wendy Colonna | Producer, engineer, mixer, mastering engineer, various instruments and effects; writer – "Girl Without a Name," "Sleeping"; cowriter – "Dance with The Moon," "I've Never Been," "Shelter and be Kind" |
2015 | Bootleg | Jess Klein | Producer, mixer, mastering engineer; as "Professor Feathers": bass |
2017 | No Moment but Now[69] | Wendy Colonna | Producer, engineer, mixer, mastering engineer, various instruments; writer – "I Will Take You In"; cowriter – "Every Second," "Girls Like Me," "I'm Satisfied," "Things That Bloom in Winter," "No Moment but Now" |
2017 | Birds of a Feather[70] | Kelley Mickwee, Colin Brooks & John Chipman | Producer, engineer, mixer, mastering engineer |
2017 | Poor Man's Bible | Mike June[71] | Producer, engineer, mixer |
2018 | Lit (EP) | ONETWOTHREESCREAM | Producer, engineer, mixer, mastering engineer, various instruments, beats; cowriter – "18 Hours" |
2019 | "Armalite Rifle" (single) | Guy Forsyth | Producer, engineer, mixer, mastering engineer, various instruments |
2020 | "Dream" (single) | Buenos Diaz[72] | Producer, engineer, mixer, keyboards |
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