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Steve Addabbo
Steve Addabbo at Shelter Island Sound, NYCSteve Addabbo at Shelter Island Sound, NYC
Background information
BornBronx, New York, U.S.
GenresRock, folk, country, pop
Occupation(s)Music producer, songwriter, audio engineer, guitarist, studio owner
Years active1972–present
Websitewww.steveaddabbo.com, www.shelterislandsound.com
Musical artist

Steve Addabbo is an American record producer, songwriter and audio engineer, who helped launch the careers of Suzanne Vega and Shawn Colvin. He had a vital hand in Vega's hit single, "Luka" and Colvin's album Steady On.

Career

He has produced and/or engineered for artists including Bobby McFerrin, Bob Dylan, Eric Andersen, Loudon Wainwright III, Jeff Buckley, Gary Lucas, Lara Bello, Richard Barone, The Bongos, Robby Romero and Red Thunder, Richard Shindell, Suzanne Vega, Ana Egge and The Stray Birds, Chiara Civello, Jane Olivor, Olivia Newton-John, The Manhattans and Dar Williams.

Addabbo is also an acclaimed mix engineer who has, among other projects, mixed the Bob Dylan box sets Bootleg 10: Another Self Portrait and Bootleg 12: The Cutting Edge for which he received a Grammy Award. More recently he has mixed the Dylan Bootleg 13, Trouble No More and Bootleg 14, More Blood, More Tracks.

Addabbo released his first full-length album Out of Nothing in 2016, 14 songs written or co-written by him.

Recent projects include Richard Barone's Sorrows and Promises: Greenwich Village in the 60s and the Robby Romero track "Born on the REZ" recorded with Dennis Banks, Robert Mirabal and Kris Kristoffersen honoring the Standing Rock Movement.

Shelter Island Sound

In the late 1980s, Addabbo learned that Celestial Sound was up for sale, and he and Ron Fierstein purchased the studio's equipment and used it to set up a recording studio in the basement of Addabbo's house in Shelter Island, New York, appropriately naming the studio Shelter Island Sound, and eventually moving it out of the house and into a more centralized location on 21st Street in New York City.

Around 2003, Fierstein retired from the music business and Addabbo bought him out. The studio's landlord, wanting to convert the 21st Street building into high-end condominiums, refused to renew the lease, and the studio established a new location at 40 West 27th Street, where the recording studio has operated ever since.

Selected works

References

  2. ^ Avalon, Moses (June 2005). "Million Dollar Mistakes". Hal Leonard Corporation. p. 220. ISBN 9781617745201.
  3. ^ "Steve Addabbo | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
  4. Barone, Richard (September 2017). "Steve Addabbo: Still Tracking in New York City". Tape Op. Retrieved 8 July 2024.
  5. "Home". Shelterislandsound.com. Retrieved 8 August 2023.

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