Christopher Rowe (record producer)
{{Short description|American record producer}}
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Christopher Rowe, is an American record producer, audio engineer and guitarist specializing in country rock. He is best known for his work with Taylor Swift.
Career
Rowe began his career working as a guitarist on folk, new age, and ethnological records before moving into country music as an assistant engineer and editor. He was part of the production team for the Dixie Chicks album Fly.
Rowe has worked with Taylor Swift since 2011, as a sound mixer and engineer for her concert films Speak Now World Tour – Live (2011), The 1989 World Tour Live (2015), Reputation Stadium Tour (2018) and Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (2020).{{cite web |title=Christopher Rowe {{!}} Sound Department, Music Department |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm15527887/ |website=IMDb |access-date=14 January 2025}}
Rowe played a more significant role in Swift's "Taylor's Version" album re-recording campaign, working as a producer and engineer on a majority of the tracks. These albums comprise Fearless (Taylor's Version) and Red (Taylor's Version) in 2021, and Speak Now (Taylor's Version) and 1989 (Taylor's Version) in 2023.
Partial discography
| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:left;" | |||
| scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Album / Track ! scope="col" | Artist ! scope="col" | Role | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Human Rites | Douglas Spotted Eagle | electric guitar |
| rowspan=3 | 1998 | It Don't Get Any Better Than This | George Jones | assistant engineer |
| I'm Alright | Jo Dee Messina | assistant engineer | |
| Faith | Faith Hill | assistant engineer | |
| rowspan=2| 1999 | Love Trip | Jerry Kilgore | mixing |
| Fly | Dixie Chicks | engineer | |
| rowspan=3 |2001 | Step Right Up | Charlie Robison | engineer |
| Say No More | Clay Walker | engineer, mixing, assistant engineer | |
| Jolie & the Wanted | Jolie & the Wanted | engineer | |
| rowspan=2 |2002 | No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems | Kenny Chesney | editing |
| Friday Night in Dixie | Rhett Akins | engineer, mixing | |
| rowspan=4 |2003 | Vicious Cycle | Lynyrd Skynyrd | engineer |
| Keith Urban/The Ranch | Keith Urban and The Ranch | assistant engineer | |
| All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan | Kenny Chesney | engineer | |
| Across the Sky | Across the Sky | engineer | |
| rowspan=3 |2004 | The Kurt Carr Project: One Church | Kurt Carr | engineer |
| Lyve: The Vicious Cycle Tour | Lynyrd Skynyrd | assistant engineer | |
| A Traditional Christmas | Joe Nichols | engineer | |
| rowspan=3 | 2005 | Wide Open Spaces / Fly | Dixie Chicks | engineer, assistant |
| The Road and the Radio | Kenny Chesney | engineer | |
| III | Joe Nichols | engineer | |
| rowspan=3 | 2006 | The Dollar | Jamey Johnson | engineer |
| Taylor Swift | Taylor Swift | remixing | |
| Peace, Love & Coondawgs | Cody McCarver | engineer | |
| rowspan=2 | 2007 | Just Who I Am: Poets & Pirates
|engineer | ||
| Cody McCarver | Cody McCarver | engineer | |
| 2008 | Lucky Old Sun | Kenny Chesney | engineer |
| rowspan=3| 2009 | Sara Smile | Jimmy Wayne | mixing |
| Lullaby | Jewel | mixing | |
| Big Dreams & High Hopes | Jack Ingram | engineer, mixing | |
| rowspan=2 | 2013 | Let It Snow: A Holiday Collection | Jewel | mixing |
| In Time | The Mavericks | engineer, mixing | |
| 2016 | Deep Tracks | Faith Hill | assistant engineer |
| 2020 | Twenty Years of Rascal Flatts: The Greatest Hits | Rascal Flatts | editing |
| rowspan=4 |2021 | The Sonic Ranch | Midland | mixing |
| Fearless (Taylor's Version) | rowspan="10" | Taylor Swift | rowspan="9" |producer, engineer, vocal engineer | |
| "Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version)" | |||
| Red (Taylor's Version) | |||
| 2022 | |||
| rowspan="5" |2023 | "If This Was A Movie (Taylor's Version)" | ||
| "Eyes Open (Taylor's Version)" | |||
| "Safe & Sound (Taylor's Version)" | |||
| Speak Now (Taylor's Version) | |||
| 1989 (Taylor's Version) | |||
| 2024 | vocal engineer |