Ted Hutt

Ted Hutt is a British GRAMMY® Award-winning record producer, musician, songwriter and mixer residing in Los Angeles, California.

Hutt came to America as a musician to work with producer Jimmy Iovine, who he credits for inspiring his own shift from performer to producer. The most important lesson Iovine imparted on Hutt is that it’s about the musician, not just the song. The goal should be to sustain a career rather than just a series of singles. The producer’s aim should be to build and promote an overall project as opposed to only focusing on the song. Hutt’s key to cracking the creative code with an artist is to build a working relationship based on trust, and a musician himself, Hutt easily relates to the rewards and challenges of touring, recording and promoting an album. His diverse skills as a musician allow him to pick up an instrument and dig into songs with the artist, and because of this unique skill set, multiple acts have returned time and again to Hutt as producer.

Hutt was a founding member and the original guitar player for Flogging Molly but found it more gratifying to work on multiple projects as producer. “I wanted to make records that I’d want to have in my own collection,” said Hutt. After his departure from the band, he was enlisted to produce, mix and co-write their RIAA Gold-selling recording Drunken Lullabies, its follow up Within a Mile of Home and the RIAA Platinum-selling Whisky on a Sunday.

Other artists that Hutt has worked with multiple times include the Bouncing Souls, with whom he made two albums. Lucero recorded a trilogy of albums with Ted at the legendary Ardent studios in Memphis. Hutt has also worked repeatedly with the Gaslight Anthem, producing their critically acclaimed, BPI Gold-certified breakthrough record The 59 Sound and the follow up American Slang (BPI certified silver). Frontman Brian Fallon also tapped Hutt’s expertise for his subsequent work with Horrible Crowes and for his solo record Sleepwalkers.

One of Hutt’s longest standing relationships is with Dropkick Murphys who have come back to him across six albums, three of them making Top 10 in Billboard 200, including duets with Bruce Springsteen, Nikki Lane, Turnpike Troubadours, Evan Felker and Jaime Wyatt.

Hutt also produced Old Crow Medicine Show on their GRAMMY® winning/Billboard Top 20 record, Remedy, as well as albums for Violent Femmes, Tiger Army, The Devil Makes Three, Audra Mae, Go Betty Go, Dustbowl Revival and Nahko and Medicine for the People (Hoka won the Native American Music Awards (NAMA) Album of the Year) and Dom Flemons record for Smithsonian Folkways. Hutt teamed up with The Mighty Mighty Bosstones for four albums, including a co-production with Tim Armstrong that featured contributions from Interrupters, Fishbone and Stranger Cole.

Always keeping his musical chops fresh, Hutt also writes and plays in Walker Roaders, a band he shares with James Fearnley (Pogues) Marc Orrell (Dropkick Murphys) and fellow producer Brad Wood.