John Congleton

John Congleton is an American Grammy Award-winning record producer, engineer, mixer, writer and musician.

In addition to his production work, Congleton has fronted the alternative rock band the Paper Chase, and writes music for a newer project entitled the Nighty Nite. He has also written music for various other projects, including MTV's Jackass, the Discovery Channel, Friday Night Lights, Evil Lives Here, and several Halloween sound effects/music CDs.

In January 2016 it was announced that Congleton and the Nighty Nite would be releasing a full-length studio album on April 1 of that year.

Selected production work
Congleton has worked with the following musicians and groups.

• 90 Day Men

• AJJ

• The Accidentals

• America Is Waiting

• Alvvays

• Amanda Palmer

• Laurie Anderson

• Angel Olsen

• Anna Calvi

• Antony and the Johnsons

• The Appleseed Cast

• Astronautalis

• Autopilot Off

• Baboon

• Bailen

• Baja Men

• Baroness

• Best Coast

• Better Oblivion Community Center

• Big Harp

• Bill Callahan

• Bitch Magnet

• The Black Angels

• Black Joe Lewis

• Black Mountain

• Blondie

• Blood Red Shoes

• Bombay Bicycle Club

• Bono

• Phoebe Bridgers

• Brian Wilson

• Briston Maroney

• Brutal Juice

• Bully

• Jasmyn Burke

• Brandon Boyd

• David Byrne

• Buddy Miles

• Budos Band

• Chairlift

• Chelsea Wolfe

• Chin Up Chin Up

• Civil Twilight

• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

• Clairo

• Clinic

• Cloud Nothings

• Cults

• Cursive

• Cymbals Eat Guitars

• Death Cab for Cutie

• The Decemberists

• Disappears

• The Dismemberment Plan

• The Districts

• Beth Ditto

• Earl Sweatshirt

• Elvis Perkins

• Erykah Badu

• Everything Everything

• Explosions in the Sky

• Franz Ferdinand

• FFS

• Foxing

• Ezra Furman

• Future Islands

• Girl in Red

• Goldfrapp

• Gossip

• The Good Life

• Guster

• Stone Gossard

• Greer

• Hagfish

• Debbie Harry

• Heartless Bastards

• Honeyblood

• Hrishikesh Hirway

• Islands

• Jamie T

• Jens Lekman

• John Grant

• John Vanderslice

• Keren Ann

• Kimbra

• Kirk Franklin

• The Killers

• Lana Del Rey

• Land of Talk

• Lightning Dust

• Little May

• Logh

• Local Natives

• Lou Bega

• Lower Dens

• Lucy Dacus

• Lucius

• Lymbyc Systym

• MC Breed

• Midlake

• Mattiel

• Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

• Manchester Orchestra

• Marilyn Manson

• Maserati

• Mason Jennings

• Glen Hansard

• Micah P. Hinson

• Miles Kane

• Mini Mansions

• Minus Story

• Modest Mouse

• Mothers

• The Mountain Goats

• Mozella

• Murder By Death

• The Murder Capital

• Nakhane

• Nelly Furtado

• Nilüfer Yanya

• Conor Oberst

• The Octopus Project

• Okkervil River

• The Overcoats

• Pattern is Movement

• Peach Pit

• Pink Mountaintops

• Phantogram

• The Polyphonic Spree

• Pompeii

• Port O'Brien

• Priests

• The Regrettes

• Nile Rogers

• Regina Spektor

• Rogue Wave

• The Roots

• Rubblebucket

• Sarah Jaffe

• Sharon Van Etten

• Shearwater

• Sir Chloe

• Sigur Rós

• Sleater Kinney

• Smog

• Something for Kate

• Sparks

• Spoon

• The Staves

• St. Vincent

• Strand Of Oaks

• Suuns

• Moses Sumney

• Swan Lake

• Swans

• Sybris

• Sky Ferreira

• Tegan and Sara

• Thao and the Get Down Stay Down

• The Thermals

• Thrice

• This Will Destroy You

• The Districts

• The Toadies

• Trash Talk

• Treefight for Sunlight

• Two Gallants

• Unknown Mortal Orchestra

• Megan Washington

• The Walkmen

• The War on Drugs

• Warpaint

• Waters

• Wallows

• We Ragazzi

• Wild Beasts

• William Elliott Whitmore

• Wires Under Tension

• When Young

• Whitney

• Wye Oak

• Ximena Sarinana

• Xiu Xiu

• Vagabon

• Eddie Vedder

• Yico Zeng

Selected engineering work

 * Dallas Symphony Orch. "A Dayful of Song"
 * Kirk Franklin & the Family Kingdom "Come - O.S.T."
 * Prince of Egypt -" O.S.T."
 * Bono (w/Kirk Franklin) "Lean On Me"
 * Nu Nation Project
 * Jackie McCullough "This is for You, Lord"
 * The Roots w/Erykah Badu "You Got Me" (Single)
 * MC Breed Let's "Go To the Club"
 * Modest Mouse Float on/Bukowski
 * Erykah Badu

(Allmusic)

Band member
Musically, Congleton is best known for being a founding member of the band The Paper Chase, an alternative rock band formed in Dallas, TX in 1998. The band was signed to Kill Rock Stars and Southern Records. Their albums "God Bless Your Black Heart" and "Now You Are One Of Us" have been released on vinyl by the Austrian label Trost Records. Congleton produced all the band's material to date. He also wrote nearly all of the material, with a few exceptions. Since the dissolution of The Paper Chase, he has formed The Nighty Nite with former Paper Chase bandmate Jason Garner.