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| Born | December 18, 1952 in New York City |
| Origin | United States |
| Occupations | Guitarist Composer Record producer |
| Instruments | Guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums |
John Leventhal is a Grammy Award-winning multi-instrumentalist, composer, music producer and recording engineer who has worked with singer-songwriters such as Rosanne Cash, Shawn Colvin, Marc Cohn, Michelle Branch, Joan Osborne, David Crosby, Kelly Willis, Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell, Elvis Costello, Kris Kristofferson, Jim Lauderdale, Bruce Hornsby, Jackson Browne, Willie Nelson, Charlie Haden and others. He composed the score for the 2005 film Winter Solstice. He has had more than 100 songs recorded by a range of artists.
Leventhal first gained recognition when he began working with Shawn Colvin. The two co-wrote most of the songs on her 1989 Grammy-winning album Steady On, as well as songs from her 1992 album Fat City, and co-produced Marc Cohn's 1993 album The Rainy Season as well as his 1998 album Burning the Daze. Leventhal produced Rodney Crowell's album Life Is Messy and Rosanne Cash's The Wheel (both in 1993); Patty Larkin's Strangers World, 1995, Rosanne Cash's 10 Song Demo (1996), Rules of Travel (2003) and Black Cadillac (2006); and Shawn Colvin's A Few Small Repairs, co-authoring her hit "Sunny Came Home," which won both Record of the Year and Song of the Year honors at the 1998 Grammy Awards. He also produced Shawn Colvin's 2006 release These Four Walls as well as the Grammy-nominated album by The Wreckers in 2006.
Leventhal lives in New York City and is married to Rosanne Cash.
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