Dewey Boyd

Robert Dewey Boyd Jr. (Dewey) is an American producer, engineer, mixer, and musician based in Nashville, TN. He is currently front of house for country and bluegrass music legend Ricky Skaggs and Tour Manager for bluegrass singer-songwriter Dan TyminskiRock Salt & Nails from New Primitive. Boyd owns and operates Forty-one Fifteen Studio in Nashville, TN.
==Biography==
Boyd was born in Anderson, South Carolina and began playing piano at a young age. He began writing songs as early as elementary school and began exploring live sound through school and church events.
Boyd attended Clemson University and graduated in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. He began graduate school to earn a master's degree in mechanical engineering but quickly moved to Nashville in 2009 to pursue professional music production.Clemson World Alumni Profile: Dewey Boyd '08 "Grammy Guy"
Boyd began his production career interning for Shane D Wilson at Pentavarit in Berry Hill beginning in the fall of 2009. Before the end of that year, Boyd began interning under Paul Moak at The Smoakstack after helping to move the studio into its new location in the former Platinum Labs facility. In 2010, Boyd became a full time assistant for Moak, assisting on GRAMMY Award nominated albums The Great Awakening by Leeland and Come To The River by Rhett Walker.
In 2012, Boyd purchased a historic bungalow on Gallatin Pike in East Nashville to convert the building into a recording studio. In October of 2012, he opened the commercial recording studio Forty-One Fifteen with partners Jeff Braun and Taylor Bray.
In 2016, Boyd was invited to fill in as the monitor engineer for six live shows with Ricky Skaggs. In February of 2017, Boyd was hired as Skaggs' full time front of house engineer. In April of 2022, Boyd began substituting as Dan Tyminski's front of house engineer and tour manager. By the fall of that year, he was hired to manage the tour.
Boyd has received several significant award nominations over the course of his career. In 2021, he was accepted as a member of The Recording Academy and continues to serve in the ranks of GRAMMY Award voters.Clemson News: Boyd, ’08, joins the ranks of GRAMMY Award voters In 2019, Boyd joined the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) and has been nominated for Sound Engineer of the Year four times (2019IBMA Announces Industry, Momentum Awards Nominations For 2019, 2022Nominees for IBMA’s 2022 Industry Awards and Momentum Awards Announced, 2023Nominees For IBMA’s 2023 Industry Awards, Momentum Awards Announced, 2024Nominees Revealed For 2024 IBMA Momentum & Industry Awards).
==Selected Discography==
* Lainey Wilson - Tougher (Album) (Engineer, Mixing)
* Lindsay Lou ft. Billy Strings - you thought you knew (EP) (Engineer)
* Lindsay Lou ft. Billy Strings, Jerry Douglas - Queen of Time (Album) (Engineer)Bandcamp.com Credits for Queen of Time
* Psallos - RomansPsallos.com Credits for Romans, Church Songs, Vol. 1Psallos.com Credits for Church Songs, Vol. 1, HebrewsPsallos.com Credits for Hebrews, JudePsallos.com Credits for Jude, PhilippiansPsallos.com Credits for Philippians, A Sure Hope: Hymns of RomansPsallos.com Credits for A Sure Hope (Mixing)
* Marc Scibilia - Better Man (Single), Sideways (Single) (Engineer)
* Jake Workman - Landmark (Album) (Producer, Engineer, Mixing)
* Dennis Parker - Songs Under the Air Condition Ing Unit (Album) (Producer, Engineer, Mixing)
* The Petersens - We Don't Need Anything This Year (Album), The Greenest Grass (EP) (Mixing)Petersenband.com Credits for We Don't Need Anything This Year
Category:People from Anderson, South Carolina
Category:American people
Category:American producers
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