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Jonas Brothers Release Switchfoot Cover - Listen!
The Jonas Brothers' version of the track, produced by longtime collaborator John Fields, features lush strings and stunning call-and-response vocals from Nick, Joe and Kevin Jonas. Prior to working with the Jonas Brothers, Fields actually found his first mainstream success producing Switchfoot’s The Beautiful Letdown, making this recording a full-circle moment.

Jon Foreman says "…they wanted to work with a specific producer to recreate it: John Fields. This was fitting in so many ways. Not only had John produced many Jonas Brothers albums already, he was brought to their attention by producing 'The Beautiful Letdown' the first time around. Such talented musicians- I love the way this new version came out. We’re so thankful to have the Jonas Brothers and John Fields represented here on this compilation. Legends!” he concluded.
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Ben Rector "Sunday"
ESPN has chosen Rector's song, "Sunday," to serve as the anthem for the first half of the 2022 season of Sunday Night Baseball.
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Sons Of Silver
“… we ever so fortunately entrusted John Fields with mixing. It was tough to let the unmixed tracks out of our hands. We’re very definitive with our sounds and balances while recording, leaving very little wiggle room for mixing. Fields did an amazing job of communicating with Brina to capture the rough-and-tumble-yet-refined vibe we were going for. We couldn’t be happier. He’s family now.”
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Cory Wong 'On The One!'
Cory Wong interviews John Fields about John’s mix of the song “Assassin” from the The Paisley Park Session.
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Soul Asylum: New Music, New Tour
"This creative soul and his Grammy-winning multi-platinum band just finished their twelfth studio full-length, appropriately titled Hurry Up and Wait, co-produced by John Fields (Switchfoot, Pink, Har Mar Superstar, Miley Cyrus, Ben Rector, Andrew W.K., Busted, Jonas Brothers, and Demi Lovato). Pirner calls it a 'completely seamless, enjoyable experience.' And it sounds that way too..."
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Recording Willie Wisely's "Go!"
25 years after the release of Go! we found video footage of the original recording session. The brilliance of John Fields and all my collaborators is fully on display as we made (if I don't say so myself) this transcendent recording.
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Ben Rector Hits The Road With Steve Winwood For Summery New Single
"Range Rover" references one of his musical heroes, Steve Winwood, who ― in a surprise twist of fate ― is featured on the song, too... At the insistence of producer John Fields, he reached out to the two-time Grammy winner about making a guest appearance. Winwood responded to the request with a recording of himself playing the Hammond organ, which Rector and his team interpolated into the track.
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Jetty Bones
"Taking Up Space" is one of Los Angeles Times' picks for the "50 Best Songs of 2020."
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Dharma & Greg
John Fields gives an inside look at playing with Bob Dylan on 'Dharma & Greg.''
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Zach Heckendorf
“John is a super pro producer,” [Zach Heckendorf] said. “I feel like I learned so much, like what it means to be a producer, how you run a session and the energy that you want to cultivate. He’s just a total musical genius. He’s amazing at engineering. He has this super infectious energy. No one’s ever bored in Fields’ studio. The cool thing about John is he’s so tapped into the Minneapolis music scene. He brings in amazing musicians.”
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IMA Winner
John Fields & The Dollyrots are the 2020 winners of the Independent Music Awards 'Best Producer'
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Soul Asylum
'Hurry Up and Wait'
"John Fields is very fluid," [Dave Pirner] says. "There's not a lot of dicking around. He likes to move fast, and that helps with the flow and the spontaneity. We keep with each other pretty good."
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Ben Rector
Catch John Fields and Ben Rector in action in John's Minneapolis studio.



Songwriter Stories
John Fields was recently interviewed by Dave Caruso of Songwriter Stories.
Stream it online here.
Listen on Apple Podcasts here.
Listen on Spotify here.
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Marc Martel
Queen's "Somebody To Love"
There was never a doubt that this song - possibly Freddie Mercury's proudest songwriting accomplishment - had to be included. After all, it's the track that changed the course of my career, when my audition for The Queen Extravaganza went viral. I've been eager to get back to work with producer John Fields (Pink, Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus, Switchfoot) since our last endeavor, my 2013 solo album, Impersonator. My trust in his instincts is practically implicit, and I knew he could slay this song. And slay it, he did. I gave him the piano and vocal arrangement, and he basically went to town with it. This one represents probably the farthest departure from its original counterpart. I knew we had to do something fairly drastic with "Somebody To Love", because otherwise, why bother?
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An insider's take on recording with John Fields
Jordan Valeriote of Hardcore Music Studio highlights John Fields' production techniques on the Jonas Brother's sophomore album.



Mix Regional: Midwest U.S.
John Fields at Creation Studios, Minneapolis: Producer/Engineer Comes Back From L.A.
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Wheat
How did John Fields become involved with the album?
SL: He was brought in by Steve from Aware to do a few things, "major [label]" it up a bit. Nothing bad intended by that, by the way - he's a great, kooky, talented player. Played bass on "Closer to Mercury" and "Some Days." It was a blast working with him - the opposite of Fridmann, really. Breakneck-speed tracking/mixing, whereas Fridmann is a bit more reserved and Zen at the board.
BH: Yeah, there were a few songs that just didn't seem to jump in the right way, and so he came along and we busted ass together and made them great. Cool dude.
How did Glen Phillips and Andy Sturmer end up singing backing vocals on the album?
SL: Steve managed Glen, Andy was a friend of John's. Plus, I liked me a Jellyfish song or two.
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Recording Studio Rockstars
Podcast #89 with John Fields
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Busted
"John Fields was instrumental in making this all fall into place... He's one of those people who when you meet him you understand why he's been able to have such a versatile career in music because he's the most versatile musician ever. He plays everything! He plays in bands, he makes records... he just lives the music dream. And he f***ing loves it. He'll go in there and he'll play a song for us - he'll find some song on YouTube and just love it, every second of it." [www.clashmusic.com]



Busted
The Role of the Music Producer (with Matt Willis, Busted, London Real)



Busted
Matt Willis of Busted on the London Real



Jon McLaughlin
"[Fields] is an insanely genius musician and producer. It was the most fun I've ever had in the studio... One of the things I'm most proud of is I feel both sides of my personality (the classical pianist in me and the pop guy) are represented." [www.popdust.com]



The Summer Set
"He's a phenomenal musician and producer with a legacy of records... John really made us push for better and different at the same time... it is a record I am so proud of... John made us so much better. It's such a pleasant surprise, this many years later, to realize some of the things that I do in the vocal booth and some of the things I've learned as a musician - I probably learned from John Fields."



Soul Asylum
On the production side, you had a little assistance from Mr. John Fields?
"Yeah, John is great... John is incredibly musical in a way that he can just pick up a bass or a keyboard and the whole time he's doing it, he's doing the recording, sitting at the console. He's really great at multitasking, so between me, John and Michael, we can really get a lot done." [www.huffingtonpost.com]



Peter Cincotti
What was it like in the studio with [John Fields]?
"One of the reasons why I loved working with him is because he is spontaneous to a degree, and it was the right amount of spontaneity. I've never made a record like that. We were making mixing decisions before we even recorded certain instruments. Somehow on every track, we always maintained that bird's eye view and it formed in an interesting way... It was as if we were throwing it against a wall and there was no formula. That's the way he works and I loved recording that way." [www.huffingtonpost.com]



Parachute
What was it like working with John Fields?
"It was amazing. He was such a great producer and exactly what we wanted in a producer. He understood our vision but didn't stomp on it but made it better. He was exactly what we needed at the time, which was someone who could take what we wanted to do and make it reality for us... He's always been someone we respected as a producer and loved the bands he's worked with. So the chance to do a whole album with him was a dream come true." [http://blog.music.aol.com]

"I think [Fields] is just really unbelievably musically talented," Anderson said. "To have somebody who knows so much and can play every instrument that we're playing was great. He has brought a lot of detail and understanding of what works and what doesn't." [www.soundspike.com]



Goo Goo Dolls
"We finished the record with [Palmer], he mixed it, and then we sat down and really analyzed it. Something wasn't fitting right in my stomach about it. I was lucky enough to have the luxury to go back in the studio and redo a bunch of stuff that I really wanted to work on. I wrote a couple more songs and recut a bunch of tracks... Also there was John Fields -- a monster talent. My money is on that guy becoming humongous. He's pretty big already." [www.billboard.com]



Switchfoot
"John Fields, the guy who produced 'The Beautiful Letdown,' was the first guy who was able to realize what we were trying to do as far as heavier tunes. I remember we did "Meant To Live" first, and it was the first time where it finally felt like 'that's what we've been trying to sound like for a while.' " [www.whowritespod.com]



Evan Taubenfeld
�Producers? Labels? Why? I will say that John Fields, who I did my record with, is a genius. Guys like that will always have a place, because they add something that artists can't do themselves. He actually provides something that's unattainable without him -- and there are a lot of producers out there who also do that. But the ones who don't, the ones who are basically leeches with an overinflated salary, they're gonna be f***ed." [http://evan.bandaiders.com]


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