In 2017, one of my best friends, Craig Alvin [Tape Op #137], kept texting me about a record he was engineering. He was saying how amazing the process was, and how awesome the results were. The album turned out to be Kacey Musgraves' Golden Hour, which went on to be a platinum selling, award-winning album that even her own record label had never expected. Daniel Tashian, with his longtime collaborator, Ian Fitchuk, co-produced, co-wrote, and played on Golden Hour, as well as the follow-ups (that Craig also worked on), Star-Crossed and Deeper Well. Outside of this, Daniel has produced amazing records for Lily & Madeleine, Sarah Jarosz [Tape Op #140], Rainbow Kitten Surprise, and even co-wrote and produced an EP (Blue Umbrella) with Burt Bacharach. Even more recently, Daniel co-produced (alongside T Bone Burnett! [Tape Op #67]) the new Ringo Starr album, Look Up. Now that's fun.

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