Joseph Donovan is a music producer, engineer, and musician. His credits include the

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winning album

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by Sam Roberts and albums by

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, and

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. He is currently guitarist with the

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band Receivers, an offshoot of his now defunct band Marlowe (1996–2005).

Early career

In 1996 songwriters Joseph Donovan and Alex Olsen's careers came to fruition upon forming the band Marlowe. Marlowe consisted of Donovan on Guitar, Olsen on vocals and keyboard, Jason Thomas, George Donoso and Eric Fares. The band received positive reviews and support but ultimately struggled through member changes and lack of album support. This forced Donovan and Olsen to chart their own course and caused the development of Donovan's music production career with Stock Market Audio, co-owned by Adrian Popovich. In addition to his studio work, Donovan also took time as The Dears' tour manager and guitarist.

Recent career

In addition to his production company, Donovan continues his music career with the band ''Receivers''. The ''Receivers'' have shared the stage with

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, and They Are Nocturnal. Donovan now works out of Mountain City Studios (co-owned by Popovich) and continues to produce acts, most recently the Sam Roberts Band, whose gold certified album

garnered national success and won Donovan a

for Rock Album of the Year.

Discography

Musician

Marlowe *''Galax-sea'' (1998) *''He Is There and He's Funny'' (2004) Receivers *''Consider the Ravens'' (2008)

Recording

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'' (2005) *''

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'' (2006) *''

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'' (2008)

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LP'' (2008) Elephant Band *''The Seven Seas'' (2009)

Producer

Marlowe *''He Is There and He's Funny'' (2004) *''Galax-sea'' (1998)

*''War of The Wakening Phantoms'' (2005) *''The Holy Ground EP'' (2006) Sam Roberts * ''

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'' (2006) * ''

'' (2008) Receivers *''Consider the Ravens'' (2008)

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*''Untitled EP'' (2011-in production)

References

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