Chris Shaw is a four time Grammy Award winning American producer, engineer, mixer, and musician who has worked on six of Rolling Stone’s “500 greatest Records of All Time“.

Beginning his career at Greene Street Recording, he quickly worked his way from NYU intern, to assistant engineer, to staff engineer working with influential hip-hop artists such as Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, Run-DMC, and LL Cool J. In 1991 he played bass with LL Cool J on his famous performance on MTV Unplugged (along with De La Soul, MC Lyte, and A Tribe Called Quest). He went independent shortly after and making records with Weezer, Wilco, Bob Dylan, Ween, Jeff Buckley, Soul Asylum, Sheryl Crow, Super Furry Animals, Lou Reed, Bad Brains, Ric Ocasek, Cheap Trick, Neon Neon, Elvis Perkins, Guillemots, Joss Stone, The Meat Puppets, Nada Surf, Dashboard Confessional, The Derek Trucks Band etc. 

Since relocating to the Austin, Texas area, Chris has worked with Bob Dylan, Edie Brickell, Bill Callahan, Leif Vollebeck, Half Moon Run, Ratboys and many others.