page_title: Mike Mogis
section_title: 2006
hierarchical_section_title: Mike Mogis / Album appearances / 2006
caption_attribution_description: English: Taken by Leah Pritchard, 2007
context_page_description: Michael Riley "Mike" Mogis is an American producer/engineer and multi-instrumentalist who, along with his brother A.J. Mogis, founded Presto! Recording Studios. Mogis currently runs ARC in downtown Omaha.
  Mike has engineered, produced, and performed in many of the releases on the Saddle Creek label, including records by Bright Eyes, The Faint, Rilo Kiley, Cursive, The Good Life, Lullaby for the Working Class, Jenny Lewis, Tilly and the Wall and Elizabeth & The Catapult. He is also producing an album for Rachael Yamagata.
  He has become a permanent member of Bright Eyes and was also a member of both Lullaby for the Working Class and We'd Rather Be Flying, generally playing guitar, although he also plays mandolin, banjo, pedal steel, glockenspiel, and hammered dulcimer, among other instruments. He worked with Lightspeed Champion, former member of Test Icicles, on his debut album Falling Off the Lavender Bridge. He is a member of the supergroup Monsters of Folk.
  He has two young daughters, Stella and Riley. Stella appeared on the Bright Eyes album Digital Ash in a Digital Urn.
context_section_description: The Concretes - The Concretes in Colour (2006) - Astralwerks
  Cursive - Happy Hollow (2006) - Saddle Creek Records
  Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat (2006) - Team Love Records
  Men, Women & Children - Men, Women & Children (2006) - Reprise/WEA
  M. Ward - Post-War (2006) - Merge Records
caption: Mike Mogis playing the pedal steel
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