Mitch’s award-winning musical career spans over 50 years of work as a recording musician, performing musician, record producer and music executive.

His latest album, MITCHOLOGY is a collection of original songs, sung and played by the composer with an array of guests on instruments and vocals.

MUSIC

Featured performer at festivals and venues from Vancouver BC to Newport RI to Wilkesboro NC to Cambridge UK. Jordan and Symphony Halls, Boston; Royce Hall, UCLA; The Gaslight, New York and Miami; The Crypt and The Half Moon, London; Sanders Theater and Club 47, Cambridge; Merlefest and the Newport, Berkeley, Vancouver, Winnipeg, San Diego, Philadelphia and Cambridge (UK) Festivals; BBC; CBC; Folkstudio, Rome; McCabe's, Santa Monica; The Ash Grove, LA; The Palomino, N. Hollywood; McCarter Theatre, Princeton; Togatoga, Kyoto; Mokkiriya, Kanazawa; La Caña, Tokyo.

Seven albums as featured performer, including several with long-time partner Mayne Smith. And about a dozen as producer, including a Grammy-winner for Doc & Merle Watson.

DISCOGRAPHY (Artist)

Mitch Greenhill: Pickin' the City Blues Prestige Folklore, 1964 (Sam Charters, producer)

Mitch Greenhill and His Friends: Shepherd of the Highways Prestige, 1967

Mitch Greenhill: Shepherd of the City Blues Fantasy, 2000 (CD compilation of Greenhill’s two Prestige albums)

Mitch Greenhill & Mayne Smith: Storm Coming Bay Records, 1979

Mitch Greenhill and Mayne Smith: Back Where We’ve Never Been Bennett House Records, 1986

String Madness (Mitch Greenhill, guitar): String Madness independent release, 2014

The Frontier (Mitch Greenhill, guitar and vocal):  The Lost Frontier independent release 2014

Mitch Greenhill & Mayne Smith: Live 1976 independent release, 2015

String Madness (Mitch Greenhill, guitar): Eye of the Beholder  independent release, 2015 (Financed by a grant from the Santa Monica Arts Commission. Greenhill was the first musician recognized as an Artist Fellow by the commission.)

Mitch Greenhill & the Blake Project. Blues of an Ancient Bard, Adapted from Poems by William Blake. Independent release.

Mitch Greenhill. Mitchology, Original Sonbxs. Independent release.

DISCOGRAPHY (Producer)

Eric von Schmidt: Who Knocked the Brains Out of the Sky? Smash/Mercury, 1969

Doc & Merle Watson: Look Away! (coproduced with Merle Watson) United Artists, 1978

Doc & Merle Watson: Live & Pickin’ United Artists, 1979

Doc & Merle Watson: “Big Sandy / Yellow Britches” Grammy, best country instrumental 1979

Doc & Merle Watson: Red Rocking Chair Flying Fish, 1981

Doc & Merle Watson’s Guitar Album Flying Fish, 1983

San Francisco Mime Troupe: The Album Flying Fish, 1983

Doc & Merle Watson: Watson Country Rounder 1996

The John Renbourn Group: Live in America Flying Fish, 1982

John Renbourn & Robin Williamson: Wheel of Fortune Flying Fish, 1993 (Grammy nomination)

Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Ricky Skaggs: The Three Pickers Rounder Records, 2003 (Mitch Greenhill, associate producer)

Rosalie Sorrels and Friends: My Last Go Round (co-produced with Roma Baran) Red House Records, 2004 (Grammy nomination)

Dave Van Ronk: And the Tin Pan Bended and the Story Ended (Mitch Greenhill, executive producer) Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 2004

Doc & Merle Watson Songs Doc Didn’t Sing FLi Records 2020

MUSIC AWARDS

-Produced one Grammy-winning recording (Best Country Instrumental, “Big Sandy/Leather Britches,” by Doc & Merle Watson) and six Grammy nominees, 1980-1994.

-International Bluegrass Music Association Award: Best Liner Notes, Watson Country.

ARTIST REPRESENTATION

President of FLi Artists / Folklore Productions.

Founded in 1957 by the late Manuel Greenhill, Folklore Productions represents artists in the world of folk, roots, and traditional music.  Over the years, these have included Doc Watson, Taj Mahal, Joan Baez, Jesse Fuller, Reverend Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk, The Klezmatics, Dónal Lunny, John Renbourn, Savoy Cajun Band, Santiago Jimenez Jr., Lúnasa, Dervish, Yasmin Levy, Aynur and Cory Harris.  Publishing, including titles by Baez, Davis, John Fahey and George Winston, is administered through several subsidiary companies.  Titles have been recorded by Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt.

LINKS TO:

Mitch Greenhill YouTube channel

Mitch Greenhill Reverbnation site

String Madness Reverbnation site

The Frontier Reverbnation site

Mitch Greenhill & Mayne Smith Reverbnation site

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