Matt Patrick (born June 15, 1974, Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American record producer, studio owner, engineer, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He grew up in the small community of North Branch, Minnesota, about an hour north of Minneapolis/St. Paul. Early on Patrick learned how to play piano, electric, acoustic and bass guitars and sing. After high school he began learning other instruments such as mandolin, accordion, dobro, pedal steel, Hammond organ, and various electronic synthesizers.
Patrick was the bass player and co-songwriter for the band pegtop (1995–2002) and also gave the group their distinct vocal harmonies. Patrick recorded five albums with pegtop, producing the latest two studio albums (Run, Run and The Counting Tree).
In 2002, Patrick recorded his first solo CD, titled Change, in several studios in the Twin Cities, including his basement studio, then enlisted Tom Herbers to mix. Some of the musicians on this album were Adam Levy (The Honeydogs), Randy Broughten (Gear Daddies, Trailer Trash, Cactus Blossoms) on pedal steel, Jeremy Ylvisaker, Bruce Balgaard, Brian Mangum and Chris DeWan, who were regular members of his band at that time. His album received very favorable reviews from national and international press.
2005 brought the release of his second album, Time Flies, which he recorded and mixed entirely in his home studio. In an attempt to search for sonically unique recordings, Patrick stumbled upon the works of Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, and joined their quest for subtlety and beauty in the process of ambient recording. Brian A. Smith from the online publication Phantom Tollbooth gave Time Flies a rating of 4½ out of 5.
Alongside his own original material, Patrick has co-written songs with numerous people and has appeared as a guest musician on two Sara Groves albums (All Right Here and The Other Side of Something).
In 2005, Patrick moved to Bratislava, Slovakia to spend a year teaching English and music. Immediately following his return to the U.S., he started his first commercial recording studio, called Two Pillars. After a year and a half there he upgraded his studio to a much larger commercial space in the arts district of Northeast Minneapolis. He named the studio "The Library",[1] as it has several thousand books that line the walls of each tracking room.
He also plays electric guitar in the band Greycoats. Various songs have been featured on several television shows including Orange is the New Black, Teen Mom, Gossip Girl, and 16 and Pregnant. Patrick has produced, engineered, mixed, and played various instruments on all four albums for Greycoats: Setting Fire to the Great Unknown (2009), World of Tomorrow (2013), Adrift (2015) and Charisma (2018). He is the electric guitarist for the band Fathom Lane, and also produced and mixed their 2017 release, Asilomar. The listeners of Twin Cities radio station 89.3 The Current voted Fathom Lane's song, "Fingers and Toes", the number one local song in their Top 89 of 2017.[2] [3] [4]
Currently, Patrick is a full-time record producer at his recording studio, the Library, in northeast Minneapolis. Some of the artists who have recorded there include Jeremy Messersmith, John Mark Nelson, Jeremy Ylvisaker with "Guitar Party," and Red House Records artists The Pines.
He has been nominated for best record producer for the Independent Music Awards in 2015 for Jourdan Myers Ruin Me With Love, 2016 for Greycoats Adrift, and in 2017 for Vicky Emerson Wake Me When The Wind Dies Down.
| Artist | Year released | Album | Producer | Engineer | Mixer | Musician | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elisha Marin | 2022 | Christmas at the Library | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Matt Hannah | 2022 | House of Illusion | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Dan Rodriguez | 2022 | Troubadour Family Man | ♦ | ||||
| Wax/Wane | 2022 | Bundle Up | ♦ | ||||
| White Line Darko | 2021 | Break Free | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ||
| Greta Nisswandt | 2021 | Girlfriend | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Jeremy Messersmith | 2021 | Mixtape for the Milky Way | ♦ | ||||
| All the Islands | 2021 | Mistakes | ♦ | ||||
| Ben Tonak | 2021 | Places For Everything | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Soubrette | 2021 | Skylight and Sophie’s World (singles) | ♦ | ♦ | |||
| Sara Groves | 2021 | What Makes It Through | ♦ | ||||
| Forest Parotti | 2021 | Common Thread | ♦ | ♦ | |||
| Midmorning Heist | 2021 | Midmorning Heist | ♦ | ||||
| Jon Arthur Schmidt | 2021 | From the Marrow | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Tyler McCaninch | 2021 | The Glue That Held Us Together | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| CPC Music | 2021 | CPC Music | ♦ | ||||
| Louis and Dan & the Invisible Band | 2021 | Smörgåsbord | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Elisha Marin | 2021 | Shining Out | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Annie Mack | 2021 | Testify | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Tawnya Smith | 2021 | Arrows | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Christy Merry | 2021 | Here For You | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Ben Brandt | 2020 | Since the Sunlight | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Two Weeks Past Never | 2020 | Don’t You Feel Alive | ♦ | ♦ | |||
| Tina Schlieske | 2020 | What Would You Pay (single) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ||
| Annie Fitzgerald | 2020 | I Know That Sound (single) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Sally Cranham | 2020 | Giants and Figs | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Phoebe Katis | 2020 | It's Ok To Cry | ♦ | ||||
| Temper The Ghost | 2020 | Wide Awake (single) | ♦ | ♦ | |||
| Vicky Emerson | 2020 | Trouble (single) | ♦ | ||||
| Foreign Fields | 2020 | The Beauty Of Survival | ♦ | ||||
| Abigail Campbell | 2020 | Dear Girl | ♦ | ||||
| Gowns | 2020 | The Hollows | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Ben Noble | 2020 | Where The Light Comes In | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ||
| Gambler's Daughter | 2020 | Serotinous Skin | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Luke Spehar | 2019 | O Holy Night (single) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Louis and Dan and the Invisible Band | 2019 | Let's Imagine | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Reina del Cid | 2019 | Morse Code | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Dan Parotti | 2019 | Self Titled | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Cory Wong | 2019 | Motivational Music for The Syncopated Soul | ♦ | ||||
| The Jolly Pops | 2019 | Bad Bad Dinosaur | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Jillian Rae | 2019 | I Can't Be The One You Want Me To Be | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Ami Andersen | 2019 | Wayfaring | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Sam Cassidy | 2019 | Running Blind | ♦ | ||||
| Louis & Dan | 2019 | and the Invisible Band | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Fathom Lane | 2019 | The Lookout (single) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| The Minor Fall | 2018 | Candle Bright | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Lynn O'Brien | 2018 | Rising | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Ponderosa | 2018 | Ponderosa | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Larry Long | 2018 | Slow Night | ♦ | ||||
| Greycoats | 2018 | Charisma | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| JØUR | 2018 | Chiaroscuro | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Fathom Lane | 2018 | Laurelee (single) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Cory Wong | 2018 | The Optimist | ♦ | ||||
| Jillian Rae | 2018 | Medication (single) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| JØUR | 2018 | Black Hole (single) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ||
| Rachel Kurtz | 2018 | Love, Rachel Kurtz | ♦ | ♦ | |||
| Interlake | 2018 | Waiting For The Ocean | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Ben Rosenbush and The Brighton | 2018 | Disparate Spheres | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| JØUR | 2018 | American Nightmare (single) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ||
| The Jolly Pops | 2018 | We Are Happy Dads | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Fathom Lane | 2018 | The Queen Of All Hearts (single) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Luke Spehar | 2018 | The Pilgrim | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| When We Land | 2018 | Introvert's Plight | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| The Fold | 2017 | From the Dust | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Interlake | 2017 | The City Without You | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| JØUR | 2017 | Danger Game (single) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ||
| Jillian Rae | 2017 | When Doves Cry (single) | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Sarah Monson | 2017 | The Apple Tree | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Greycoats | 2017 | Hypersleep | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Fathom Lane | 2017 | Asilomar | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Matt Hannah | 2016 | Dreamland | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Aly Aleigha | 2016 | The Labyrinth | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ||
| Holly Henry | 2016 | King Paten | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Karen Choi | 2016 | Through Our Veins | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Vicky Emerson | 2016 | Wake Me When The Wind Dies Down | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Preston Gunderson | 2016 | Face Yourself, Then The World | ♦ | ||||
| Brian Lenz | 2016 | Short Stories | ♦ | ♦ | |||
| The Paper Days | 2016 | Falling Is Easy | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Sarah Kallies | 2016 | North | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Eyedea | 2015 | The Many Faces of Mikey | ♦ (3 tracks) | ||||
| Foreign Fields | 2015 | What I Kept In Hiding | ♦ | ||||
| Greycoats | 2015 | Adrift | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| John Mark Nelson | 2015 | I Am Not Afraid | ♦ | ||||
| MaSSs | 2015 | How I Killed A Bear | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Holly Henry | 2015 | The Orchard | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Kara Laudon | 2015 | I Wasn't Made | ♦ | ||||
| Clementine | 2015 | Crooked Brain | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ||
| John Mark Nelson | 2014 | Sings the Moon | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Elizabeth Hunnicutt | 2014 | The Arrival | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Jourdan Myers | 2014 | Ruin Me With Love | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Jonathan Rundman | 2014 | Look Up | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Hope Hymns | 2014 | Volume 2 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Put Down the Muffin | 2014 | Charged Particles | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Josh Cleveland | 2014 | The Root of a Man | ♦ | ♦ | |||
| Jake Armerding | 2013 | Cosmos in the Chaos | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ||
| Greycoats | 2013 | World of Tomorrow | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Vicky Emerson | 2013 | Dust and Echoes | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Rachel Kurtz | 2013 | Broken and Lowdown | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Ben Rosenbush and The Brighton | 2012 | A Wild Hunger | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ||
| The New Standards | 2012 | Sunday Morning Coming Down | ♦ | ||||
| Sarah Monson | 2012 | Dragonflies | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Brynn Andre | 2012 | Let It Snow | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Soul Rumination | 2012 | Fear & Love | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Deb Carlson | 2012 | Tresses of Green | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Surrounded by Werewolves | 2012 | Stranger Dance | ♦ | ♦ | |||
| Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge | 2012 | I Am New | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Mark Keating | 2012 | One in the Same | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Hope Hymns | 2012 | Volume 1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Heatherlyn | 2011 | Storydwelling | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| The Rock | 2011 | Born to Die | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ||
| Clocks and Clouds | 2011 | Life Beyond Reason | ♦ | ||||
| A Thousand Falls | 2011 | Midnight | ♦ | ||||
| Annie Fitzgerald | 2010 | In Good Time | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Danielle Thrush | 2010 | The Waiting | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Jason Gray | 2010 | All the Lovely Losers | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ||
| Six Pack Heart Attacks | 2010 | Road of Love Forgotten | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Norah Long | 2010 | View from Violet Hill | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Vicky Emerson | 2009 | Long Ride | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| The Brighton | 2009 | self-titled | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ||
| Elizabeth Hunnicutt | 2009 | On the Way | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Brett Tyler | 2009 | Bittersweet | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Roger Flyer | 2009 | Songs Hidden In Eggs | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ||
| Greycoats | 2009 | Setting Fire to the Great Unknown | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Tim Lemmens | 2009 | Even if | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Caitlyn Smith | 2007 | Face Over Heels | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Sarah Notley | 2005 | Broken Down Angel | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ||
| Precious Red | 2005 | Closer | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Jason Gray | 2003 | Hoping; Live Vol.1 | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Matt Patrick | 2002 | Change | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Pegtop | 2002 | Counting Tree | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ||
| Nic Johnson | 2002 | Weightless | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | ♦ | |
| Pegtop | 1998 | Run, Run | ♦ | ♦ |