Jay Joyce

{{short description|American singer-songwriter}}

{{Infobox musical artist

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| birth_name = John Joseph Joyce

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| birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.

| origin = Nashville, Tennessee

| genre = {{flatlist|

• Rock
• country

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| occupation = {{flatlist|

• Record producer
• guitarist
• songwriter

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| instrument = {{flatlist|

• Guitar
• bass
• drums
• keyboard

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| years_active = 1986–present

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• Cage the Elephant
• Eric Church
• Amos Lee
• Ashley McBryde
• Miranda Lambert
• Little Big Town
• Lainey Wilson
• In Pursuit
• Bedlam
• Iodine

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John Joseph "Jay" Joyce is an American record producer, songwriter and session musician. In the 1990s, Joyce, with Chris Feinstein and Brad Pemberton, recorded and toured as Iodine. He also fronted the band Bedlam, featured on the soundtrack to the Tarantino movie Reservoir Dogs. and began working as a record producer, working with artists such as The Wallflowers, Tim Finn, Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, White Reaper, Lainey Wilson and Cage the Elephant. In the 2000s, Joyce began producing for Eric Church, Halestorm, Zac Brown Band, Brandy Clark, Amos Lee, Declan McKenna, Fidlar and Little Big Town.{{cite web|title=Little Big Town: About|url=http://www.littlebigtown.com/about|publisher=Little Big Town|access-date=3 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115175138/http://www.littlebigtown.com/about|archive-date=15 November 2012|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://mmusicmag.com/m/2011/11/jay-joyce/ |title=M Music & Musicians Magazine » JAY JOYCE |publisher=Mmusicmag.com |access-date=2012-08-10}}{{cite web|url=http://www.solid-state-logic.com/news/article.asp?ID=51&T=P |title=Post News | Jay Joyce installs 48 channel SSL Duality console in Nashville facility |publisher=Solid State Logic |date=2008-03-28 |access-date=2012-08-10}} He has also played guitar for Crowded House, The Wallflowers, John Hiatt, Iggy Pop, Brendan Benson and Macy Gray.{{Cite web|title=M Music & Musicians Magazine » JAY JOYCE|url=http://mmusicmag.com/m/2011/11/jay-joyce/|access-date=2020-07-17}}

In recent years the Grammy Award-Winning Producer of the Year has worked with Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood, Brothers Osborne and Miranda Lambert, as well as played a major role in helping newcomers Ashley McBryde, LANCO, Devin Dawson and Tenille Townes find unique sounds and hone their songwriting abilities. In 2014 Joyce partnered with Warner/Chappell to establish Neon Cross Music, a publishing company with a roster of rock, pop and country artists and writers.{{Cite news|date=2014-04-23|title=Warner/Chappell Music Signs Co-Pub Deal With Joyce|language=en-US|url=https://musicrow.com/2014/04/warnerchappell-music-signs-co-pub-deal-with-joyce/|access-date=2020-07-17}}

Joyce has also received four CMA Awards{{Cite web|title=Past Winners And Nominees|url=https://cmaawards.com/past-winners-and-nominees/|access-date=2020-07-17|website=2019 CMA Awards {{!}} Wednesday, November 13 on ABC|language=en-US}} and five ACM Awards{{Cite web|last=LTD|first=BubbleUp|title=winners|url=http://www.acmcountry.com/|access-date=2020-07-17|website=Academy of Country Music|language=en}} including Producer of the Year. In 2018, rock critic Rob Harvilla of The Ringer named Joyce "the most influential—and hardest-rocking—man in Country music."{{Cite web|last=Harvilla|first=Rob|date=2018-08-21|title=The Most Influential—and Hardest-Rocking—Man in Country Music|url=https://www.theringer.com/music/2018/8/21/17721234/jay-joyce-country-music-producer|access-date=2020-07-17|website=The Ringer|language=en}}