Michael McCarthy (born February 22, 1965, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States) is an American record producer, who has been recording music since 1984.
McCarthy has worked as a producer on five Spoon albums, from Girls Can Tell until Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, as well as Patty Griffin's Children Running Through, Sound Team's Movie Monster, and albums by …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, The Features and The Sun (Don't Let Your Baby Have All the Fun).
McCarthy lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Discography
Spoon
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (produced / recorded / mixed), Merge
Gimme Fiction (produced / recorded / mixed), Merge/Matador
Kill the Moonlight (produced / recorded / mixed), Merge
Girls Can Tell (produced / recorded / mixed), Merge
Heartless Bastards
The Mountain (produced / recorded / mixed), Fat Possum Records
Dead Confederate
Wrecking Ball (produced / recorded / mixed), TAO/Razor and Tie Records
Wild Sweet Orange
We Have Cause to Be Uneasy (produced / recorded / mixed), Canvasback Records
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
So Divided (produced / recorded / mixed), Interscope
Worlds Apart (produced / recorded / mixed), Interscope
The Secret of Elena's Tomb (produced / recorded / mixed), Interscope
Source Tags & Codes (produced / recorded / mixed)
Relative Ways EP (produced / recorded / mixed), Interscope
Madonna (produced / recorded / mixed), Merge
Patty Griffin
Children Running Through (produced / recorded / mixed) ATO records
Lee Ann Womack
Something Worth Leaving Behind (produced / recorded / mixed), MCA
I Hope You Dance (recorded / mixed), MCA
The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone (produced / engineer / mixer), ATO
The Features
Exhibit A (produced / recorded), Universal
AM Taxi
We Don't Stand a Chance (produced / recorded / mixed), Virgin
Fastball
Keep Your Wig On (produced Recorded), Ryko
Forget Cassettes
Instruments of Action (produced / recorded / mixed), Theory 8
Goudie
Peep Show (produced / recorded / mixed), TMC/Elektra
Sound Team
Movie Monster (produced / recorded / mixed), Capitol
Jack Ingram
Electric (produced / recorded / mixed), Sony
Sixteen Deluxe
The Moonman is Blue (produced / recorded / mixed), Sugar Fix
Carson McHone
Carousel (produced / recorded / mixed), Nine Mile Records / Loose