John Leventhal

He produced and co-wrote soul singer William Bell's 2016 Stax Records release This Is Where I Live, which won the 2017 Grammy for Americana Album of the Year. In 2018 Leventhal produced the song Let My Mother Live, co written with Marc Cohn and performed by The Blind Boys Of Alabama, and was nominated for a Grammy for Best American Roots Performance. The song Crossing To Jerusalem written with Rosanne Cash was nominated for Best American Roots song for the 2019 Grammys.

In 1988, he produced and co-wrote Shawn Colvin’s Grammy winning debut album Steady On. He arranged and played multiple instruments on Marc Cohn's 1991 hit "Walking in Memphis". In 1998, he won a Grammy Award for Record and Song of the Year for producing and co-writing the song "Sunny Came Home" (a 1997 hit for Colvin). Leventhal produced and co-wrote all of the songs on Rosanne Cash's 2014 release The River & the Thread. On 8 February 2015, The River & the Thread won three Grammy awards: Americana Album of the Year, Best American Roots Song for "A Feather's Not a Bird" and Best American Roots Performance for "A Feather's Not a Bird".

In September 2015, Leventhal received the Americana Music Association's award for Instrumentalist of the Year.

Leventhal's mother was of Irish and Cuban descent, and his father was Jewish. In 2014, Newsweek reported "Before [Leventhal and Cash] were married by a rabbi, Johnny Cash said, 'I've been waiting 40 years for one of my daughters to marry a Jew.'"

Leventhal also composed scores to the films Winter Solstice (2004), and Big Stone Gap (2014).

John Leventhal (born December 18, 1952) is a six time Grammy Award-winning musician, producer, songwriter, and recording engineer who has produced albums for William Bell, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Michelle Branch, Rosanne Cash, Marc Cohn, Shawn Colvin, Sarah Jarosz, Rodney Crowell, Jim Lauderdale, Joan Osborne, Loudon Wainwright III, The Wreckers and many others.