Trina Shoemaker | |
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Born | Kathryn Shoemaker
[1] June 14, 1965 [1]
Joliet, Illinois, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Record producer, mixer, sound engineer |
Spouse | Grayson Capps (m. ?) [2] |
Kathryn "Trina" Shoemaker is an American mixer, record producer and sound engineer responsible for producing/engineering and/or mixing records for bands such as Queens of the Stone Age, [3] Sheryl Crow, [3] Emmylou Harris, [3] Something for Kate, [4] Nanci Griffith, [4] Kristin Hersh, Tanya Tucker and many others.
Shoemaker was born in Joliet, Illinois and graduated from Joliet Central High School in 1983. [1]
She moved to Los Angeles and worked as a secretary at Capitol Records. She then briefly moved to London where she worked with artist Hugh Harris. Next she worked with producer Daniel Lanois at Kingsway Studios in New Orleans; [5] in 1992 she became the studio's house engineer. [6] Her break came in 1995 when Sheryl Crow fired her producer and hired Shoemaker to engineer her self-produced, self-titled second album Sheryl Crow. In 1998, Shoemaker became the first woman to win the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album for her work on The Globe Sessions. [7] In addition to engineering for Crow, Shoemaker went on to work with artists including Blues Traveller, Emmylou Harris, the Indigo Girls, and the Dixie Chicks. [5]