Neilson Hubbard

Neilson Hubbard
Neilson Hubbard
Born	Neilson Gray Hubbard; October 27, 1972 (age 52); Jackson, Mississippi, US
Occupations	Record producer; videographer; singer; songwriter; musician; photographer;
Years active	1990–present
	Musical career
Genres	Folk; Americana; indie rock; rock;
Instruments	Vocals; multi-instrumental;
Labels	Proper Records;
Website	neilsonhubbard.com

Neilson Gray Hubbard (born October 27, 1972) is an American record producer, film director, film producer, singer-songwriter, and photographer. He produced Mary Gauthier's Grammy-nominated album, Rifles & Rosary Beads, as well as albums for Sam Baker, Kim Richey, and Glen Phillips. He directs and produces music videos and documentaries through his company, Neighborhoods Apart, which produced the Orphan Brigade's (Hubbard's band) documentary and soundtrack, The Orphan Brigade: Soundtrack to a Ghost Story, which won a number of awards. His collaborations with artist Matthew Perryman Jones have been featured in Private Practice, One Tree Hill, Bones, Grey's Anatomy, and several films.

Early life

Hubbard was born on October 27, 1972, in Jackson, Mississippi, to Dale and Suzy Hubbard. He was an All City baseball player and football player throughout high school. He began singing in talent shows at age seven, and learned to play the guitar in high school. He learned to play the keyboard in his early twenties.

Music career

Hubbard's first band was called This Living Hand, formed with producer Clay Jones. They signed to Adam Duritz's label, E Pluribus Unum, and toured nationally with The Counting Crows and The Wallflowers. After the band split up, Hubbard went on to record three solo albums, The Slide Project, Why Men Fail, and Sing into Me. He also collaborated with Matthew Ryan to form the band Strays Don't Sleep.

Spoon

Childhood friends from Jackson, Mississippi, Hubbard and Clay Jones moved to Oxford to study literature at the University of Mississippi, where they met violinist Helena Lamb. The three began working on songs that Hubbard had written that didn't fit into their previous bands. Hubbard, Jones, and Lamb adopted the name Spoon, and recorded their first song, "Say Something Warm", in one day. They soon began playing live as a trio in bars, coffee houses, college lunch rooms, and restaurants.

During that first year of shows, Spoon recorded the tracks that would make up their second album, Holding Flowers, produced and recorded by Justin Martin. They released the album on their own Lunch Pale label in the fall of 1993. The group added a rhythm section to their lineup, including Garrison Starr playing the snare and ride cymbal, and Jones picked up the bass for the quartet's live shows. Near the end of 1994, Lamb left the group, leaving Hubbard and Jones to continue through 1995 with a two-guitar, drums, and bass lineup.

This Living Hand

The name "This Living Hand" is derived from the title of a poem by John Keats. The band's songs were written by vocalist and guitarist Hubbard; guitarist Jones was responsible for arrangements and production. In the summer of 1995 the band signed with E Pluribus Unum Recordings in Los Angeles and released their first full-length album, Consolation Prize, in October, with a national tour following. The album was recorded over four days at Easley Studios in Memphis. This Living Hand recorded a second album, The TV Sounds Worried, in 1996 but it was shelved by the record label and remains unreleased to this day.

Hubbard moved to Nashville, opened Mr. Lemons' Studio, and continued producing records for Garrison Starr, Glen Phillips, Strays Don't Sleep, Michelle Malone, Jeremy Lister, Matthew Perryman Jones, and other musicians.

Strays Don't Sleep

Matthew Ryan approached Hubbard in 2004 about a collaboration. The collaboration was successful, and Strays Don't Sleep was formed with Hubbard, Brian Bequette, Billy Mercer and Steve Latanation.

In the autumn of 2005, Strays Don't Sleep's self-titled debut was released in the UK on One Little Indian. The release includes a DVD of short films that were directed and shot by professional filmmakers and friends, including Gorman Bechard, the Barnes Brothers, Martin Glenn, Matt Boyd, and Jared Johnson. Ryan and Hubbard directed three of the short films, with the help of Nashville film student Matt Riddlehoover. A 5.1 Surround Sound mix of the entire record and films, by Paul PDub Walton of Björk and Sneaker Pimps fame, is available on the DVD.

Strays Don't Sleep was released to positive reviews from Time Out, Uncut, The Sunday Express and The Times. The success helped secure a US release, which was helped further by a placement on the hit CW (former WB) drama One Tree Hill. "For Blue Skies", a song concerning the sentencing of Matthew Ryan's brother to 30 years in prison, was made available on the One Tree Hill soundtrack. Strays Don't Sleep toured the UK with Josh Rouse to support the album. In April 2006, their video album Strays Don't Sleep won the Grand Remi Award at the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival for Best Music Video, and the band's performance received a standing ovation.^{[citation needed]} In mid-2006, the group was officially disbanded.

In 2008, Hubbard released a new solo record, I Love Your Muscles.

The Orphan Brigade

The Orphan Brigade was formed in 2014 by founding members Hubbard, Ben Glover, and Joshua Britt. The group spent a year writing and recording their first album, Soundtrack to a Ghost Story, in the allegedly haunted Octagon Hall in Franklin, Kentucky.^[2]^[3] The group set out to tell the story of this eerie architectural oddity and the family, soldiers, and servants who lived and died there. They looked for inspiration and possible encounters with the spirits of this place. Additional appearances include John Prine, Kim Richey, Gretchen Peters, and Will Kimbrough.

Hubbard's film production company, Neighborhoods Apart, produced and directed the documentary The Orphan Brigade: Soundtrack to a Ghost Story, which was nominated for Best Original Song at the Nashville Film Festival.^[4] They have since released two albums, Heart of the Cave (2017) and To the Edge of the World (2019).

Discography

The Orphan Brigade

2019 – To The Edge of the World
2017 – Heart of the Cave
2015 – Soundtrack to a Ghost Story

Buffalo Blood

2019 – Buffalo Blood

Strays Don't Sleep

2006 – Strays Don't Sleep

Solo Projects

2021 – Digging Up The Scars
2018 – Cumberland Island
2013 – I'll Be the Tugboat
2010 – Do You Want to Start a Fire
2008 – I love Your Muscles
2003 – Sing into Me
2000 – Why Men Fail
1997 – The Slide Project

This Living Hand

1996 – Consolation Prize
1966 – The TV Sounds Worried

Spoon

1992 – Say Something Warm
1993 – Holding Flowers

Music production

2019 – The Orphan Brigade – To The Edge of The World
2019 – Buffalo Blood – Buffalo Blood
2019 – Amy Speace – Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne (Best International Song, American UK)
2018 – Ben Glover – Shorebound (UK Americana Album of the Year)
2018 – Dean Owens – Southern Wind (UK Title Track winner, Best Song, Americana)
2018 – Mary Gauthier – Rifles & Rosary Beads (Grammy-nominated)
2017 – The Orphan Brigade – Heart of the Cave
2017 – Sam Baker – Land of Doubt
2015 – The Orphan Brigade – Soundtrack to a Ghost Story
2018 – Dean Owens – Into The Sea
2015 – Caroline Spence – Hearts and Spades
2015 – Audrey Spillman – Thornbird
2014 – The Farewell Drifters – Forever Tomorrow
2013 – Kim Richey – Thorn in my Heart
2011 – The Farewell Drifters – Echo Boom
2011 – The Apache Relay – American Nomad
2010 - Gabe Hizer - "Persistence of Memory"
2009 – Tyler James – It Took the Fire
2006 – Amelia White – Black Doves
2006 – Strays Don't Sleep – Strays Don't Sleep
2006 – Glen Phillips – Mr. Lemons
2006 – Matthew Ryan – From a Late Night High-Rise
2006 – Matthew Perryman Jones – Throwing Punches in the Dark
2006 – Mack Starks – Blind Spot
2005 – Garrison Star – The Sound of You and Me
2005 – David Knopfler – America
2004 – Kate York – Sadly Love

Video production

2020 – Tommy Emamnuel – Fuel
2020 – Lilly Hiatt – Candy Launch
2019 – Lilly Hiatt – Brightest Star
2019 – Amy Speace – Me and the Ghost of Charlemagne
2018 – John Prine – Ways of a Woman in Love
2018 – John Prine – Daughter and Egg Night
2018 – Gretchen Peters – Arguing with Ghosts
2018 – Aaron Lee Tasjan – Heart Slows Down
2018 – Ben Glover – Kindness
2107 – Jason Isbell – If We Were Vampires
2017 – Amanda Shires – Harmless
2017 – Jason Isbell – Hope the High Road
2017 – Blind Boys of Alabama – See by Faith

Documentaries

2018 – Rifles & Rosemary Beads – Mary Gauthier'
2015 – Soundtrack to a Ghost Story – The Orphan Brigade

References

^ "ALL THE RAIN". ASCAP. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Retrieved March 13, 2023.
^ "The Orphan Brigade – Soundtrack to a Ghost Story by Mike Davies 18 November, 2015". UK Folk Radio. November 18, 2015. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
^ "The Orphan Brigade Goes on Location for To the Edge of the World by Lyndon Bolton". No Depression. September 25, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
^ "Tennessee First Features – The Orphan Brigade – Soundtrack to a Ghost Story". Nashville Film Festival. 2020. Retrieved March 25, 2020.

External links

Official website

[1] "ALL THE RAIN". ASCAP. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Retrieved March 13, 2023.

[2] "The Orphan Brigade – Soundtrack to a Ghost Story by Mike Davies 18 November, 2015". UK Folk Radio. November 18, 2015. Retrieved March 25, 2020.

[3] "The Orphan Brigade Goes on Location for To the Edge of the World by Lyndon Bolton". No Depression. September 25, 2019. Retrieved March 25, 2020.

[4] "Tennessee First Features – The Orphan Brigade – Soundtrack to a Ghost Story". Nashville Film Festival. 2020. Retrieved March 25, 2020.

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Neilson Hubbard
Born	Neilson Gray Hubbard^[1] (1972-10-27) October 27, 1972 (age 52) Jackson, Mississippi, US
Occupations	Record producer videographer singer songwriter musician photographer
Years active	1990–present
Musical career
Genres	Folk Americana indie rock rock
Instruments	Vocals multi-instrumental
Labels	Proper Records
Website	neilsonhubbard.com