Tom Rothrock

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Tom Rothrock is an American record producer, composer and musician. Tom Rothrock has produced groundbreaking and genre bending albums with Badly Drawn Boy, James Blunt, R. L. Burnside, Yonder Mountain String Band and Roman Carter.

He produced (along with Rob Schnapf) Elliott Smith's albums Either/Or, XO (on which he also created the drum loop for the song "Independence Day") and Figure 8. The duo also produced the Toadies, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Fu Manchu and Richard Thompson.

Rothrock, along with Schnapf and partner Bradshaw Lambert started Bong Load Custom Records in the early 90's, which is notable for releasing Beck's Loser single. Rothrock first heard Beck when he saw him jump onstage to play in between bands during a show at Jabberjaw and approached him afterwards about recording his songs. Together Rothrock, Schnapf, Beck, and Karl Stephenson recorded Mellow Gold, Beck's critically acclaimed major label debut.

In film, Rothrock produced the original songs for the About A Boy soundtrack and score with Badly Drawn Boy. He composed music for the film Collateral directed by Michael Mann and is credited on the song "Goofy Goober Rock" on the The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie soundtrack. His recording of R.L. Burnside's "It's Bad You Know" was included on The Sopranos original television soundtrack release.

Recently Rothrock produced, recorded and mixed James Blunt's album Back to Bedlam. In 2007, Rothrock released his own instrumental solo debut titled Resonator on the re-launched Bong Load records. He's also had a notable appearance on Roman Carter's new album Never Slow Down and the song Just A Little Too Fast.