Tom Rothrock

Tom Rothrock is an American record producer, composer and musician. Tom Rothrock has produced albums with James Blunt, Badly Drawn Boy, R. L. Burnside, Yonder Mountain String Band, Athlete, Sloan and Roman Carter.

James Blunt's debut, Back to Bedlam, has been noted as the "decades best selling album" (2000's). The album also entered the Guinness Book of World Records, with most albums sold in a year in the UK, when it sold 2,368,000 copies in 2005.

Tom Rothrock also produced (along with Rob Schnapf) Elliott Smith's albums Either/Or, XO (on which he also created the drum loop for the song "Independence Day") and Figure 8. The duo also produced and mixed the Foo Fighters, Toadies, Wool, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Fu Manchu and Richard Thompson.

Rothrock, along with Schnapf and partner Bradshaw Lambert started Bong Load Custom Records in the early 1990s, which is notable for releasing Beck's "Loser" single which became the first number one, non-major label single since FM radio became mainstream. Rothrock first heard Beck when he saw him jump onstage to play in between bands during a show at Jabberjaw club and approached him afterwards about recording his songs. Together Rothrock, Schnapf, Beck, and Karl Stephenson recorded Mellow Gold, Beck's critically acclaimed major label debut.

In film, Rothrock produced the original songs for the About A Boy soundtrack and score with Badly Drawn Boy. He composed music for the film Collateral directed by Michael Mann and is credited on the song "Goofy Goober Rock" on the The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie soundtrack. His recording of R. L. Burnside's "It's Bad You Know" was included on The Sopranos original television soundtrack release.

Rothrock produced, recorded and mixed James Blunt's album All the Lost Souls. In 2007, Rothrock released his own instrumental solo debut titled Resonator on the re-launched Bong Load Records.

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