Ben Mumphrey
Benjamin Mumphrey (born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is an American record producer, audio engineer, and musician.
Producer credits: Frank Black albums True Blue, Show Me Your Tears,[1] 93-03[2] and Devil's Workshop,[3] all released on Cooking Vinyl; Black Liquor by Dash Rip Rock, released in 2012 on Alternative Tentacles; In The Night,[4] the 1998 album by Famous Monsters, released by Bong Load Custom Records; The Chaos In Order[5] by the Los Angeles group Let's Go Sailing; the Pixies song "Bam Thwok" (the first official number 1 track on the UK Download Chart on June 23, 2004).
Engineering credits: Jello Biafra and the New Orleans Raunch & Soul All-Stars (released in 2015 on Alternative Tentacles), "Ain't That Pretty At All" by the Pixies (a Warren Zevon cover from the Artemis Records album Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon);[6] Frank Black's albums Black Letter Days (Cooking Vinyl),[7] Honeycomb (EMI / Back Porch Records),[8] One More Road For The Hit and Snake Oil; The Breeders 2009 EP, Fate to Fatal,[9] the 2008 4AD Records album Mountain Battles,[10] and the song "German Demonstration"[11] (the B-side to the vinyl 7" single, "We're Gonna Rise"); ¿Which Side Are You On?, the 2012 album by Ani Difranco; "Goin' Home" by B.B. King with Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk (the title track from the Vanguard Records album Goin' Home: A Tribute To Fats Domino);[12] Alligator Records' American Patchwork[13] by Anders Osborne; Sub Pop Records' Dynamite Steps[14] by The Twilight Singers and Saturnalia[15] by The Gutter Twins; Bloodshot Records' Can You Deal With It?[16] by Andre Williams & the New Orleans Hellhounds; Ben Harper's Live from Mars (2nd engineer); Here Comes That Weird Chill by Mark Lanegan (assistant engineer); various recordings by Paul Avion; "Hard Luck Guy" by Greg Dulli (featuring Quintron), released in 2007 by Shake-It Records, as part of a series covering the songs of the late Muscle Shoals guitarist and songwriter Eddie Hinton.[17]
Musician credits: The Breeders, "Pinnacle Hollow" (bass); Frank Black & the Catholics, "Velvety" (percussion); Greg Dulli, "Hard Luck Guy" (drums).
Mumphrey was the stage sound mixer for the Pixies' 2004 reunion tour, documented in the film loudQuietloud: A Film About the Pixies. He also worked as a staff engineer at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles, and Studio in the Country, in Washington Parish, Louisiana.
In 2013, Mumphrey played a bit part as a recording engineer on the series finale of the HBO television show Treme, "To Miss New Orleans".
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