Performance · Production
Jay Joyce
real name John Joseph Joyce
Jay Joyce is credited on 215 albums across 605 pressings tracked on Gatefold, active 1970–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
215
Albums
605
Pressings
6
Decades active
395
In collections
Biography
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Producer, recording engineer, remixer, musician and songwriter, born in Cleveland, Ohio.
He was the singer and lead guitarist in rock bands Bedlam and Iodine in the first half of the 1990s. After those groups split up he worked as a session musician, playing on albums from The Wallflowers, Iggy Pop, October Project, K.T. Oslin, Gillian Welch, Radney Foster, and Nashville locals such as Daniel Tashian, Bob Bradley and Matthew Ryan, among others.
Joyce currently (2006) operates the Tragedy/Tragedy recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee. Artists he has worked with in his studio include Patty Griffin, Tim Finn, Atticus Fault, Rubyhorse, Plumb, Abra Moore, Audio Adrenaline, Eric Church, Alternate Roots and the Derek Trucks Band.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
215 albums · 605 pressings · active 1970–2026
- Performance · 968
- Production · 395
- Engineering · 153
- Other credits · 106
Studios: Sunset Sound · O'Henry Sound Studios · Neon Cross, Nashville, TN · Record One, Los Angeles
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Bringing Down The Horse
1996

Reservoir Dogs (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1992

Melophobia
2013

Cage The Elephant
2008

On How Life Is
1999

Thank You Happy Birthday
2011

The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1
2025

Bronco
2022

The Color Before The Sun
2015

A Pound Of Feathers
2026

Happiness Bastards
2024

Signs Of Light
2016

Time On Earth
2007

How To: Friend, Love, Freefall
2018

Chief
2011

American Caesar
1993

Unchain My Heart
1987

Too
2015

I Am Sam (Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture)
2002

Pain Killer
2014

Revolution
2009

The Outsiders
2014

Carolina
2009

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
2007
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