Mitchell Blake Easter (born November 15, 1954) is a musician, songwriter, and record producer. Frequently associated with the

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style of guitar music, he is known as producer of

R.E.M. R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia. One of the first alternative ...

's early albums from 1981 through 1984, and as frontman of the 1980s band

Let's Active Let's Active is an American rock group formed in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1981, and often identified with the jangle pop guitar work of the group's frontman and songwriter Mitch Easter. After disbanding in 1990, the group reformed in Augus ...

Early life

Easter was born in

Winston-Salem, North Carolina Winston-Salem is a city and the county seat of Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. In the 2020 census, the population was 249,545, making it the second-largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region, the 5th most populous city in N ...

, and became deeply involved in music from an early age. He attended the

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from 1974 until his graduation in 1978. He played in a number of school bands, some of them with his childhood friend

Chris Stamey Christopher Charles Stamey (born December 6, 1954) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. After a brief time playing with Alex Chilton, as well as Mitch Easter under the name Sneakers, Stamey formed The dB's with Peter ...

(later of

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Career

Record production and engineering

In 1980, Easter started the Drive-In Studio, a professional recording studio located in what was originally his parents' garage. One of his earliest recording sessions was the debut single by R.E.M., "

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". Drive-In Studio became an integral part of the local indie-rock scene of Winston-Salem, recording a number of bands at low "knock-down" rates. Easter closed the Drive-In Studio in 1994, and moved from Winston-Salem to Kernersville, North Carolina, where he opened his current recording studio, Fidelitorium Recordings. As a record producer, Easter is probably best known for his work with R.E.M. from 1981 through 1984. Since 1981, he has produced, engineered, and often made musical contributions to albums from many other recording artists, including

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, Pylon,

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, Pavement,

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(of

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), and

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. Asked in 1999 about his favorite projects as a producer, Easter cited R.E.M.'s ''

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'' and

's records – ''

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'' (1984), ''

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'' (1985), ''

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'' (1987), and ''

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'' (1988) – which Easter called "a lot of fun, because of the variety in the way they approached recording".

Performing and songwriting

Rittenhouse Square and the Sneakers (1970–1981)

At the age of 15, in 1970, Easter joined the band Rittenhouse Square which included friends Chris Stamey,

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, and Bobby Locke. Membership in the band changed frequently. The group released an independent album in 1972 but broke up in 1973, after its various members went off to college. In 1978, Easter joined Stamey's Sneakers, a band that Easter characterized as "pre-punk transitional". Prior to Easter, the Sneakers released a self-titled 7-inch EP (with original guitarist Rob Slater) and one album with Easter replacing Slater, ''In the Red'' (1978). When the Sneakers disbanded in the late 1970s, Stamey and bandmate Will Rigby formed the dB's and moved to New York. Easter did likewise, but soon returned to Winston-Salem. In January 2006, the Sneakers played a reunion show in New York. ''In the Red'' has been reissued on CD by East Side Digital and

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, and in September 2015,

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reissued the ''Sneakers'' EP as a CD with five bonus tracks.

Let's Active (1981–1990, 2014)

In 1981, Easter formed

with then-girlfriend Faye Hunter and drummer Sara Romweber. Around the same time, Easter worked with R.E.M. to record their debut single, "Radio Free Europe". This initial work led to a number of collaborations with the band, with Easter producing their debut EP and (with Don Dixon) their first two albums. Let's Active toured with R.E.M., which led to a recording contract with I.R.S. Records. Although Let's Active was not commercially successful, Easter's offbeat style of guitar-based pop music, which came to be known as

, was considered a major influence on groups such as R.E.M. Mitch Easter and Suzi Ziegler

On the I.R.S. label, Let's Active released the EP ''

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'' (1983), and the albums ''Cypress'' (1984), ''

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'' (1986), and ''

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'' (1988). A compilation CD, ''Cypress/Afoot'', was released in 1989. After weathering several line-up changes, Let's Active was disbanded by Easter in 1990. In August 2014, Easter and Sara Romweber reunited Let's Active for a benefit performance, inviting former Game Theory bassist Suzi Ziegler to join the group. Easter had previously worked with Ziegler when he produced Game Theory's 1986 album ''

''.

Shalini and solo projects

By 1990, Easter had become known primarily as a producer and engineer. During the 1990s, Easter rarely performed or recorded his own music, although he did join

as a touring guitarist for a time in the mid-1990s. In 2000, Easter re-teamed with Let's Active member Eric Marshall and with Shalini Chatterjee (who married Easter in 2003), to form the trio

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. The three also briefly played under the name The Fiendish Minstrels, which featured Easter's lead vocals, as well as a selection of Let's Active tunes in its repertoire. With Easter as guitarist for the band Shalini, as well as its producer, Shalini released the albums ''We Want Jelly Donuts'' (2000), ''Metal Corner'' (2004), and ''The Surface and the Shine'' (2007). Mitch Easter released his first solo album, ''Dynamico'', on March 13, 2007. The record was the first on his own imprint, Electric Devil Records, and was initially distributed by 125 Records. ''Dynamico'' marked Easter's first work as frontman of a band in the 18 years since he disbanded

. Easter formed a combo that toured with him in 2007 in support of the album, with the group Shalini as the opening act, to promote ''Dynamico'' and Shalini's 2007 album ''The Surface and the Shine''. Easter dismissed Chatterjee from his band in January 2010, and the two had divorced by 2011. Their "recording relationship" was dissolved prior to the release of Shalini's 2010 album ''Magnetic North'', which was produced by Easter, but on which he did not perform.

"Big Star's ''Third''" tour

In December 2010, Easter teamed with Chris Stamey, R.E.M. bassist

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, and drummer

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, along with a string section, to perform a live tribute performance of Big Star's album ''

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'' in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Joined by additional performers such as

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, the group performed a similar tribute concert in New York City on March 26, 2011, at the

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in London on May 28, 2012, The ongoing project has continued with concerts in Chicago and New York in 2013, a January 2014 concert in Sydney, Australia, and a series of five U.S. shows later in 2014 that included Seattle's

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festival and a festival in Athens, Georgia. Performances in 2015 included a September show in Minneapolis and two October dates in San Francisco.

Discography

Solo

* 2007: ''Dynamico'' (Electric Devil Records)

Orange Humble band

* 1997: ''Assorted Creams'' ( Half a Cow) * 2001: ''Humblin' (Across America)'' (Half a Cow) * 2015: ''Depressing Beauty'' (

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)

Let's Active

* 1983: ''

'' ( I.R.S. Records) * 1984: ''Cypress'' (I.R.S.) * 1986: ''

'' (I.R.S.) * 1988: ''

'' (I.R.S.)

As producer (selected highlights)

* 1982:

- ''

'' ( I.R.S. Records) with R.E.M. * 1983: R.E.M. - '' Murmur'' (I.R.S. Records) with Don Dixon * 1983:

and James Mastro - ''Nuts And Bolts'' (Passport) with James Mastro and Richard Barone * 1983: X-Teens - ''X-Teens'' (Dolphin) * 1984: R.E.M. - '' Reckoning'' (I.R.S. Records) with Don Dixon * 1985:

- ''

'' (Enigma) * 1986: Game Theory - ''

'' (Enigma) * 1986: Waxing Poetics - ''Hermitage'' (Emergo) with Mike Mills * 1987: Game Theory - ''

'' (Enigma) * 1987:

- '' Boylan Heights'' (TVT) * 1987: Bobby Sutliff - ''Only Ghosts Remain'' (PVC) * 1987: Hyaa! - ''Get Yer Hyaa-Hyaa`s Out!'' (no label) * 1987:

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- ''The Washington Squares'' (Gold Castle) * 1988: Velvet Elvis - ''Velvet Elvis'' (Enigma) with Tom Laune * 1988: Even the Odd - self titled (Wanga) * 1988: Mambo-X - ''Whirled'' (Wanga records) * 1988:

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- ''

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'' (DB) * 1989:

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- ''

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'' (

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) * 1990: Lava Love - ''Whole Lava Love'' (Sky) * 1993: Two Pound Planet - Songs From The Hydrogen Jukebox (Alternative) * 1994: Motocaster - ''Stay Loaded'' (Interscope) * 1994:

- ''

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'' (Alias) * 1994:

- ''Teenage Symphonies to God'' (Creation / Sony) * 1995: Grover - ''My Wild Life'' (Zero Hour) * 1996: The Drag - ''Satellites Beaming Back At You'' (

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) * 1996: DM3 - ''Road To Rome'' (Citadel) with DM3 * 1997: Pavement - '' Brighten the Corners'' (

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) * 1997:

- '' The Magic City'' (

) with Helium * 2001: Velvet Crush - ''A Single Odessey'' (Action Musik) * 2002: Coronet Blue - ''Coronet Blue'' (Laughing Outlaw) * 2002: d Henry Fenton - ''Autumn Sweet'' (Laughing Outlaw) * 2002: Glory Fountain - ''The Beauty of 23'' (Undertow) * 2003:

- '' Tell Your Friends'' (Palace Coup / Orchard) * 2004: Tim Lee - ''No Discretion'' (Paisley Pop) * 2004: Shalini - ''Metal Corner'' (Dalloway) * 2005: The Mockers - The Lonesome Death of Electric Campfire (Zebra) * 2005: Jeffrey Dean Foster - ''Million Star Hotel'' (Angel Skull) * 2006: Honor by August - ''Drowning out the Television'' (Low Watt) * 2006:

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- ''The Juggernaut'' (Double Decker Bus) * 2007: Angel and the Love Mongers - ''The Humanist Queen'' (Rock Snob) * 2008: Baskervilles - ''Twilight'' (Secret Crush) * 2008: Spank - ''Get Bent'' (self-released) * 2009: Western Civ - ''Shower the People You Love with Gold'' (Nomorefakelabels) * 2011:

- ''Birds of Avalon'' (Gigantic / Bladen County) * 2011: Big Troubles - ''Romantic Comedy'' (Slumberland) * 2012:

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- ''Be Nice Be Careful'' (Piewillie) * 2015:

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- ''Sprinter'' (Yep Roc) * 2016: Waiting for Henry - "Town Called Patience" (Mighty Hudson Music)

As contributing musician

* 1985:

- ''

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'' (Warner Bros.) * 1985:

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- ''Unsophisticated Time'' (A&M) * 1986: Marti Jones - ''Match Game'' (A&M) * 1987:

- ''It's Alright'' (A&M) * 1987: Don Dixon - ''Romeo At Juilliard'' (

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) * 1987: Marshall Crenshaw - '' Mary Jean & 9 Others'' (Warner Bros.) * 1995:

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- ''Duffy'' (Indolent) * 2001:

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- ''A Man Under the Influence'' ( Bloodshot) * 2002:

Caitlin Cary Caitlin Cary (born October 28, 1968) is an alternative country musician and visual artist from Seville, Ohio. Early life Caitlin Cary is the youngest of seven siblings (all older brothers). Her entire family was involved in music to some degre ...

- ''While You Weren't Looking'' (Yep Roc) * 2002: Gerty - ''Sweets From the Minibar'' (Eskimo Kiss) * 2003:

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- ''Forty Words For Fear'' (Gaff Music) * 2003:

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- ''Warmth & Beauty'' (Yep Roc) * 2006:

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- ''

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'' (New West) * 2006: Little Diesel - ''No Lie'' (Telstar) * 2006: Steve Almaas - ''You Showed Me'' (Parasol) * 2011: The Parson Red Heads - ''Yearling'' (Second Motion) * 2012:

- ''

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'' (BarNone) * 2013: Chris Stamey - ''Lovesick Blues'' (Yep Roc) * 2013:

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- ''

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'' (Merge) * 2014:

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- ''Always'' (Big Oak) * 2014: Karen Haglof - ''Western Holiday'' (self-released) * 2015: Chris Stamey - ''Euphoria'' (Yep Roc)

References

External links

Fidelitorium Recordings
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