| Background: | person |
| Mark van Allen | |
| Birth Place: | Worcester, Massachusetts, USA |
| Occupation: | Musician, recording engineer, record producer |
| Instrument: | Pedal steel, dobro, lap steel, electric and acoustic guitar, bass guitar, mandolin |
| Years Active: | 1979–present |
Mark van Allen (born 1954) is an American musician, recording engineer and record producer, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Instruments he plays include the pedal steel guitar, dobro, lap steel guitar, electric and acoustic guitar, bass guitar, and the mandolin.
As a touring and session musician, van Allen has appeared with a wide variety of artists, covering many musical genres, including Zac Brown Band, Shawn Mullins, Buddy Miles, Hank Thompson, Indigo Girls, John Berry,[1] Mark Wills, Blueground Undergrass,[2] Warren Haynes, Sugarland, Jimmy Herring, Leftover Salmon, Guy Clark, Vassar Clements, Rehab, Peter Rowan, Manchester Orchestra, and many more.
He currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia, where he runs a multitrack recording studio and is active on the local recording and national touring scene.
| Year | Song/Album | Artist | Label | Instrument | Other credits | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | "A Song About A Letter" b/w "I Love You" (45 RPM single) | Merlin Jones | ||||
| 1980 | "Memories of You" b/w "Someone Cares" (45 RPM single) | Randy Roddy | ||||
| 1986 | Things Are Not The Same (LP) | Clear Sky Records | ||||
| 1988 | "Between 17 And 20" b/w " The Christmas Tree" (45 RPM single) | Kyle Ensley | ||||
| 1993 | The Willing Suspension Of Disbelief | DeDe Vogt | ||||
| 1994 | Everyday Thing | Alan Wayne Baker | Rogue Records | |||
| Things Are Not The Same (CD) | Liberty Records/Patriot Records | |||||
| Rain | Rogue Records | Songwriter | ||||
| 1995 | Simple Life | Christopher Mercure | RamCat | |||
| 1996 | She Dreams Alone | Libby Eason | Dark Rose Records | Pedal steel, dobro, lead guitar | ||
| John Grant | John Grant | RCR Records | ||||
| Horses And Guitars | Selene McCarthy | Mane N' Tale | ||||
| 1997 | Real Cowboy Girl | Cowboy Envy | NikiVicki | |||
| Move Along | Thornton Price | TP10 | ||||
| Open the Window | EmWorld Records | |||||
| 1999 | Barnyard Gone Wrong | Blueground Undergrass | Root Cellar Records | Pedal steel, harmony vocals | Recording and mixdown engineer, co-producer | |
| Live at Southside Music Hall | HaneyJones Music | |||||
| Live At The Variety Playhouse | Phoenix Records | Mixdown engineer, co-producer | ||||
| Live At The Variety Playhouse (European vinyl release) | Comet Records/Horizon Records | |||||
| Live at Iota | ||||||
| Live At The Variety Halloween | ||||||
| Prompt Temporary Relief | Good Medicine | Root Cellar Records | ||||
| Just For The Songs | Rich Healy | Up and Running Records | Pedal steel, dobro, electric guitar | |||
| Souldiers | Richard Long | Recording engineer, producer | ||||
| 2000 | Blueground Undergrass | Newground | Bgug Records | Pedal steel, dobro, lap steel, lead and harmony vocals | Recording and mixdown engineer, mastering engineer, producer | |
| Phoenix Presents Sampler | Phoenix Records | Mixdown engineer | ||||
| Windows Sampler | Blueground Undergrass, Play J.Com | Windows Records | ||||
| Whatever Became Of Me? | Joyce Brookshire | EmWorld Records | ||||
| Wagons Ho | Cowboy Envy | Daemon Records | ||||
| Lost My Steel Railways | Danny Kahn | Pedal steel, dobro, electric guitar | ||||
| Fresh Flowers | Selene McCarthy | Mane N' Tale | Pedal steel, dobro, lead guitar | |||
| One Horse Town | Queenie Mullinix | Pedal steel, dobro, electric guitar | Recording engineer | |||
| Oldstar | Oldstar | Riverbridge Records | ||||
| Dream | Karen Shayne | Rogue Records | ||||
| 2001 | The Discussion Begins... | Dan K. Theory | Root Cellar Records | Recording and mixdown engineer | ||
| Lollipop Rock | Lollipop Rock | |||||
| Live | Music Badger.Com | |||||
| Cosmic Cabin Memories | Jim Thompson | Pedal steel, acoustic and electric guitar, dobro, mandolin, bass, baritone guitar | Recording and mixdown engineer, producer | |||
| Watch and Learn Let's Jam: Country and Bluegrass | Cassette and Video Learning Systems | |||||
| Dusk | Dusk Wilson Weaver | Phi Acoustics | Pedal steel, dobro, electric guitar | |||
| 2002 | Heartland | Athma Mitram | Recording engineer | |||
| The Road From Swannanoa | Border Collies | |||||
| Moodswing Halo | Shane Bridges | Riverbridge Records | Recording and mixdown engineer, producer | |||
| On Board The Armenia | Calliope Fair | Root Cellar Records | Recording and mixdown engineer | |||
| Knee Deep In Blues | Del Conner | DellConn | ||||
| Just Being Me | Nichole Davidson | |||||
| Imperfectly | Libby Eason | Dark Rose Records | ||||
| Not Too Late To Love Again | Wayne Hill | Forte Music | ||||
| Let It Unfold | Sheri Kling | Heartsprings Music | ||||
| This Guy's The Limit | Rich Millett | Pop Head Music | ||||
| Lifelines | Paul Sforza | Turnstone Records | ||||
| The Treehouse Incident | Shadowood | Shady Music | ||||
| Enjoy The Ride | Rogue Records | |||||
| 2003 | Nowhere Is Too Far | Jon Allmet | Between The Sheets Music | |||
| Dance Around It | Box Rockers | Recording and mixdown engineer, co-producer | ||||
| With Shawn Mullins | Cornbread | |||||
| Free To Go | Donna Hopkins | Recording engineer | ||||
| HomeWrecker, HeartBreaker | Kate and The Retreads | |||||
| Homewrecker, Heartbreaker | Kate James and Lost Country | Hayden's Ferry | ||||
| Chaff Harvest | Busboat | Recording engineer | ||||
| Collage | Bill Shultz | Pedal steel, dobro, electric guitar | Recording and mixdown engineer | |||
| Happy Holidays From 99X, Vol. III | ||||||
| 2004 | Live at Tree Sound Studios | |||||
| Three Rivers Point | Captain Soularcat | |||||
| In The Beginning | Emmaus Road Project | |||||
| All That We Let In | ||||||
| Drum & Bass Society, Vol. 1 | Blue Canoe Records | |||||
| Crush | The Planet Riders | Pedal steel, dobro, electric guitar, baritone guitar | Recording and mixdown engineer | |||
| Live At Eddie's Attic 3-24-04 | Bad jokes | |||||
| County Line | Mark Scott | U.S. 78 Music | ||||
| Premium Quality Tunes | ||||||
| Grey | Wayside Riders | |||||
| 2005 | Why Not? | The Bird Dogs | Pedal steel, dobro, harmony vocals | Producer, engineer | ||
| Clay Cook | ||||||
| Sideman Blues | Bret Hartley Experiment | Tremolo Blue Music | ||||
| Heartland | Sheri Kling | Heartsprings Music | ||||
| Man Made Trouble | Nathan Mayberry | Pedal steel, baritone guitar | Recording engineer | |||
| Live at Eddie's Attic | ||||||
| [R]Evolution | Moonshine Still | TreeSound | ||||
| Hey Buddy | New Orlean's Juice | |||||
| Language Of Dreams | Berne Poliakoff | |||||
| For the Kids | Ranger Bill | Pedal steel, dobro, guitar, bass, keyboard, baritone guitar | Producer, engineer | |||
| Home Grown | Home Grown Records | |||||
| 2006 | The Memory of Your Company | Arlington Priest | Crazy Neighbor Records | |||
| Once In A Blue Moon | Larry Scott Chapman | Shane Records | ||||
| Songs From Stone Mountain | Dave Daniels & New Pony | Recording and mixdown engineer, co-producer | ||||
| Streetcars Ain't Got Handlebars | Russ Duty | |||||
| Guns Kill People | Mike Killeen | Recording engineer, co-producer | ||||
| Demos, Outtakes, Live and Whatnot | Recording, mixing, and mastering engineer, co-producer | |||||
| Wandering Moon | Kristin Markiton Band | |||||
| Live at Eddie's Attic Sept. 13, 2006 | ||||||
| T.B.S. Soundstage (DVD) | ||||||
| Myth of the Self Made Man | Nathan Mayberry | Recording engineer | ||||
| Cory Sellers | Cory Sellers | |||||
| Two Lane Road | South 70 | |||||
| Crazy | Pete Whitfield | |||||
| 2007 | Courier | Brian Ashley Jones Trio | Recording and mixdown engineer, co-producer | |||
| That Should Heal Nicely | Bishop Don | |||||
| Broken Window Pains | Shane Bridges | Riverbridge Records | ||||
| Gathering Of Eagles | Dwain Cleveland | Electric guitar, acoustic guitar, classical guitar, pedal steel, bass | Recording and mixdown engineer, producer | |||
| Kahle Davis and the Night Watchmen | Recording and mixdown engineer, co-producer | |||||
| Highway to Fame (television special) | Tom Dugger | |||||
| Owen Evans | ||||||
| Kecia Garland | Recording and mixdown engineer, producer | |||||
| Jackson County Line | Jackson County Line | |||||
| Hell Broke Loose in Georgia | Moira Nelligan | Recording and mixdown engineer | ||||
| Whiskey Down | Tyler Reeve | |||||
| Hard Headed Fool | ||||||
| America | Robin Dean Salmon | |||||
| Slowly First | James Salter | |||||
| Tanglewood Tonic | Recording and mixdown engineer | |||||
| Wighat | Mixdown engineer | |||||
| Crazy Heart | Tom Wolf | Bad jokes | ||||
| We Know What You Want | Zydeco T | Recording and mixdown engineer, co-producer | ||||
| 2008 | 90 Proof Lullabye | |||||
| God Sent An Angel | Laveda Dorsey | |||||
| CD single | Steve Freeman | |||||
| Clear Channel Jingle | Simon Horrocks | |||||
| Little. And Low. | Mike Killeen | 227 Springdale Records | Recording and mixdown engineer | |||
| Sugar On A Stick | ||||||
| CD single | Kristin Markiton | |||||
| Mending | ||||||
| She Says | J. R. Rund | |||||
| South 70 | South 70 | DrumBum Music | ||||
| 2009 | Naked | Steve Baskin | ||||
| I Really Want to Say | Adam Bret | |||||
| Clementine | Dave Daniels | Black Hills Music | Recording engineer | |||
| Just Like Ghosts | Dave Daniels & the PTA | Recording engineer, production | ||||
| Mystery Prize | ||||||
| Nate Montgomery | Pedal steel, dobro, lead guitar | Recording engineer | ||||
| War and Sand | Krysta Nick | |||||
| It's Been Worth It All | ||||||
| Welcome Home | ||||||
| Keeping Up With the Joneses | Undertone Records | |||||
| Create Your Day, Celebrate Your Night | Emily Smith | Spirit Wave Healing | Pedal steel, keyboard, synthesizer | Music production, recording and mixdown engineer | ||
| Sufficient Grace | Sufficient Grace | |||||
| 2010 | Universal You | Nathan Beaver | ||||
| New Hometown | ||||||
| Lovin' You Still | Georgia | |||||
| Mulennium | Evil Teen | [3] | ||||
| Josh Harris | Josh Harris | |||||
| Poverty Is Real | Mike Killeen | |||||
| Manchester Orchestra | ||||||
| The Broken Record | Undertone Records | |||||
| Whiskey Gentry | Whiskey Gentry | |||||
| Unhyphenated American | Andy Lee White | |||||
| 2011 | Everybody's Out Tonight | Nathan Beaver | ||||
| Power Up Jingle | Berkely Power Corporation | |||||
| The Oprah Song | Leslie Christian | |||||
| Georgia Fair | ||||||
| Old North Monroe | James Matthew Hughes | |||||
| The Internationals | Recording and mixdown engineer | |||||
| Signature Jingle | Revolution Radio | |||||
| First of Many | Saint Francis | Mastering engineer | ||||
| "Revolution" (on Hemlockfest 2011 compilation CD) | ||||||
| Revolution Radio Signature | ||||||
| Andy Velo | Andy Velo | |||||
| Jayron Weaver | Jayron Weaver | |||||
| 2012 | Demo | Kristen Englenz | Recording and mixdown engineer, producer | |||
| 2015 | Shine On the Waters of My Soul | Victor Johnson | Beautiful Things | |||
| ? | ||||||
| Leslie Barnett | ||||||
| For the Lord is Royalty | Steven Kern | Recording and mixdown engineer, co-producer | ||||
| Long Journey | Mike Mermin | |||||
| Compilation | Star Route USA | |||||
| Sundiver | ||||||
| Drive | Francisco Vidal Band |