Aaron Sprinkle

Aaron Sprinkle (born March 20, 1974) is an American record producer and musician from Seattle, Washington.

Career 
His career in music began in high school with a group called BellBangVilla.  BellBangVilla became Poor Old Lu and they released a number of albums (see below). Aaron Sprinkle also sang and played lead guitar in Rose Blossom Punch, and has produced albums independently. On his solo releases, he plays almost all instruments except drums. He produced dozens of records for Tooth & Nail Records between 1993 and 2016. In 2005, Sprinkle formed the band Fair with Joey Sanchez, Nick Barber, and Erick Newbill. Fair released its debut album The Best Worst-Case Scenario on Tooth & Nail Records in June 2006. He is the brother of drummer Jesse Sprinkle. Among others, Jesse played with Aaron in Poor Old Lu, was the most recent drummer of Dead Poetic, and was also an early member of Demon Hunter, whose albums Aaron has produced the majority of.

Discography

Solo (1999–present) 
 Moontraveler (1999)
 The Kindest Days (2000)
 Really Something EP (2001)
 Bareface (2001)
 Live: The Boy Who Stopped the World (2003)
 Lackluster – Best Of (2004)
 Water & Guns (2013)
 Real Life (2017)
 Escaping Light (2018)
 Instrumentals, Vol. 1: Alexandria (2018)
 Instrumentals, Vol. 2: Unravel (2019)
 Instrumentals, Vol. 3: North Coast (2019)
 Instrumentals, Vol. 4: Feather Falling (2021)
 Walking Back (2021)
 Certainty (2021)

With Poor Old Lu (1990–2002) 
 In Love with the Greenery (As BellBangVilla) (1990)
 Three Song Demo (Cassette only) (1991)
 Star-Studded-Super-Step (1992, 1995 & 1998)
 Mindsize (1993)
 Split 7″ with Mortal (1993)
 Sin (1994)
 Straight Six (1995)
 A Picture of the Eighth Wonder (1996)
 In Their Final Performance (1998)
 Chrono [1993-1998] (1998)
 The Waiting Room (2002)

With Rose Blossom Punch (1997–1999) 
 Ephemere (1997)
 So Sorry to Disappoint You (1999)
 Par Avion 7″ vinyl

With Fair (2006–present) 
 The Best Worst-Case Scenario (2006)
 "Carelessness" (CD single) (2006)
 Disappearing World (2010)

With Blank Books (2017–present) 
 EP1 (2017)

Contributions

Solo 
 "A Christmas Song for All Year Round" (from Happy Christmas Volume 3 – 2001, Tooth & Nail Records)
 "I Know There's an Answer (Hang On to Your Ego)" (from Making God Smile: An Artists' Tribute to the Songs of Beach Boy Brian Wilson – 2002, Silent Planet Records)

With Rose Blossom Punch 
 "Sowing in the Sun" (from Artcore Vol. I – 1996, Tooth & Nail Records)
 "Based on a True Story (Demo)" (from Music for Meals: Take Time to Listen Vol. III – 1997, SaraBellum Records)
 "See It in Me" (from Artcore Vol. II – Tooth & Nail Records)

Production work 
Aaron has production, engineering, or other credits on albums by the following bands:

 Aaron Gillespie
 Producer, engineering, co-writer, and additional instruments and vocals on Anthem Song
 Acceptance
 Producer on Black Lines to Battlefields, Phantoms, and Colliding By Design
 Adie
 Producer on Don't Wait
 The Almost
 Producer and additional vocals on Southern Weather
 Producer on Monster Monster
 Anberlin
 Producer, engineering, and mixing on Blueprints for the Black Market
 Producer and engineering on Never Take Friendship Personal
 Producer on Godspeed EP and Cities
 Producer and engineering on Vital
 Vocal production and engineering on Lowborn
 Beth Orton
 Blenderhead
 Producer on Prime Candidate for Burnout
 Brooke Barrettsmith
 Producer on Brooke Barrettsmith
 Bugs in Amber
 Mixing and instruments on Rocketship Letters
 Capital Lights
 Producer of This Is an Outrage!
 Calibretto 13
 Producer on Adventures in Tokyo
 Copeland
 Co-producer of You Are My Sunshine
 Damien Jurado
 Mixer on I Break Chairs
 Dead Poetic
 Producer of New Medicines, Vices and The Finest
 Demon Hunter
 Producer on all albums (except Live in Nashville, 45 Days,  War, and Exile.)
 Co-producer, programming, and keyboards on Storm the Gates of Hell
 Co-producer on Extremist
 Keyboards on The Triptych
 Disciple
 Producer on Long Live the Rebels
 Dolour
 Co-producer of Suburbiac
 Eisley
 Co-producer of Marvelous Things E.P. and Room Noises
 Emery
 Producer on The Question and ...In Shallow Seas We Sail
 Additional vocals for ...In Shallow Seas We Sail
 Additional instruments and vocals on We Do What We Want
 Every Avenue
 Producer on Bad Habits
 Falling Up
 Producer on Crashings
 Co-writer and producer on Captiva
 FM Static
 Producer of What Are You Waiting For?
 Co-producer of Dear Diary and My Brain Says Stop, But My Heart Says Go!
 Gatsbys American Dream
 Producer of Why We Fight
 Grammatrain
 Producer of Lonely House
 Hawk Nelson
 Co-producer of Letters to the President
 Producer of Smile, It's the End of the World
 He Is We
 Producer of My Forever
 Hyland
 Producer of Weights & Measures
 Icon for Hire
 Co-producer on Scripted
 Ivoryline
 Producer of There Came a Lion and Vessels
 Jeremy Camp
 Producer and instruments on Restored
 Co-producer on Beyond Measure
 Jonezetta
 Producer of Cruel to Be Young
 Joy Electric
 Mixer on The Tick Tock Treasury
 Co-mixer on Hello, Mannequin
 KJ-52
 Producer on Behind the Musik (A Boy Named Jonah)
 Co-producer on Dangerous
 Kutless
 Producer on Kutless, Sea of Faces, Strong Tower, Hearts of the Innocent, and  Surrender
 Co-writer of Sea of Faces
 Little Champions
 Audio Mixer on Pillow
 Mae
 Co-producer on Destination: B-Sides
 MxPx
 Producer on Pokinatcha and Secret Weapon
 The Museum
 Producer on Let Love Win
 New Found Glory
 Producer of Makes Me Sick
 Nine Lashes
 Co-producer of World We View and From Water to War
 Number One Gun
 Producer of The North Pole Project and Promises for the Imperfect
 Pedro the Lion
 Co-writer on Control
 Poema
 Producer of Sing It Now
 Project 86
 Co-producer on Songs to Burn Your Bridges By
 Relient K
 Co-producer on Collapsible Lung
 Rocky Votolato
 Audio mixer on Makers
 Ruth
 Producer of Secondhand Dreaming
 Co-producer of Anorak
 The Send
 Producer, additional vocals and instruments from Cosmos
 Sent By Ravens
 Producer of Our Graceful Words
 Seven Places
 Producer of Lonely for the Last Time and Hear Us Say Jesus
 Seventh Day Slumber
 Producer of Once Upon a Shattered Life
 Sherri Youngward
 Producer of Six Inches of Sky
 Sometime Sunday
 Mixing and instruments on Drain
 Soulfood 76
 Engineering on Velour
 Squad Five-O
 Solo guitar on 2 tracks on Fight The System
 Starflyer 59
 Producer, engineering, and mixing on Old
 States
 Producer on Room To Run re-release
 Stavesacre
 Producer, engineering, and instruments on Collective
 Swimming With Dolphins
 Co-producer of Water Colours
 Time to Fly
 Producer on Birth. Work. Death
 The Divorce
 Engineering on The Divorce EP
 Thousand Foot Krutch
 Producer on Phenomenon, Welcome to the Masquerade, The End Is Where We Begin, Oxygen: Inhale, and Exhale
 Wes Dando
 Producer and co-engineer on The Tired Hours
 Zao
 Co-producer on Legendary

References

External links 
 
 Poor Old Lu
 Fair
 Interview @ Christianity Today from early 2004
 Aaron Sprinkle on Pure Volume

1974 births
Living people
American male singer-songwriters
Record producers from Washington (state)
American performers of Christian music
Tooth & Nail Records artists
Musicians from Seattle
Singer-songwriters from Washington (state)