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D. James Goodwin

American record producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 10, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Daniel James Goodwin is an American record producer, recording engineer, mixing engineer, and musician based in Hudson Valley, New York. Goodwin is known for his experimental and unconventional approach to recording. He is the owner of The Isokon, a recording studio in Kingston, New York. His discography includes bands and artists such as Blitzen Trapper, Kevin Morby, Rhett Miller, The Hold Steady, The National, The New Pornographers, Bob Weir, Nanna, Bonny Light Horseman, Anaïs Mitchell, Josh Ritter, Muzz, Craig Finn, Tim Berne, Kaki King, and Goose.

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“D. James Goodwin” enters the record as american record producer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what James, Goodwin and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “D. James Goodwin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.