Richard Swift

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Richard Swift (March 16, 1977 – July 3, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and short film maker.

He was the founder, founder, and recording engineer of National Freedom, a recording studio based in Oregon, and performed as producer, collaborator, muse, and influencer on films including The Shins, Damien Jurado, David Bazan (of Pedro the Lion), Foxygen, Jessie Baylin, Wake Owl, Cayucas, and Guster.

Swift was a founding member of the indie rock band The Shins and The Arcs.

During The Black Keys' live band's 2014-2015 tour, he performed as both the tour bassist and backing singer.

Early life

Swift, a born in California on March 16, 1977, in a musical Quaker family, began performing and singing in churches at an early age. His family moved often in his youth, spending time in rural Minnesota, Utah, and Oregon. He worked at a farm near International Falls, Minnesota, as a youth.

Personal life and death

Swift lived in Cottage Grove, Oregon, where he first met his wife, Shealynn. They had three children.

Swift was hospitalized in Tacoma, Washington, suffering from an undisclosed "life-threatening illness" and that a GoFundMe had been established to pay for his medical bills, according to Pitchfork on June 19, 2018. He died in Tacoma on July 3, 2018. Swift's family released a statement six days later announcing that he suffered from alcohol use throughout his life and that his death was caused in part by related "complications from hepatitis, as well as liver and kidney disease."

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Career

On Metro One Recordings, Ricardo "Dicky" Ochoa's first solo album under the name Dicky Ochoa was released in 2000. Company with Frank Lenz and Elijah Thomson was released in 2002, but it wasn't until 2002 that it was released an album called Company. He appeared on the Promise Keepers Live Worship album in 2002 as a musician. Swift moved to Southern California in 2001 to pursue his solo recording career. He released Walking Without Effort, his first album with drummer and producer Frank Lenz, in the same year. On a four-track cassette recorder, he recorded a majority of his early music. Velvet Blue Music has produced four small pressings of "properly made" 7" vinyl singles from 2002 to 2005. Swift also released The Novelist in 2003 and Walking Without Effort (recorded in 2001) in 2005 and then combined the two albums to create the double-disc The Richard Swift Collection Vol. In August 2004, Leftwing Recordings issued 1 of them. On their 2003 Somewhere Cold Awards Hall of Fame list, Somewhere Cold voted The Novelist EP of the Year in December 2003, while a year later, in December 2004, they ranked The Richard Swift Collection Vol. 1. No. 1 is out of order. The 2004 Somewhere Cold Awards Hall of Fame list features 5 individuals.

In 2005, he signed to the Indie label Secretly Canadian, who later re-launched the Collection. Dressed Up For the Letdown, the Secretly Canadian and Polydor's follow-up album, was released in 2007. During a taping of BBC program Later This Year...with Jools Holland, Swift met Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy. Swift requested Wilco to help them on their Sky Blue Sky USA tour, according to Tweedy. Swift was invited to perform at their Loft studios in Chicago during the tour.

Swift unveiled his fourth album at the Wilco Loft studios in October 2007. Richard Swift As Onasis, a double EP, was released in April 2008. Swift released Ground Trouble Jaw, a free digital download in August 2008. The Atlantic Ocean was first discovered in April 2009 by a mystery Canadian explorer. The album was co-produced by Mark Ronson and featured special guests including Pat Sansone, Casey Foubert (Sufjan Stevens), Sean Lennon, and Ryan Adams. Walt Wolfman was his first solo EP on release in 2011.

In addition to the music he produced and performed, he was also a keyboardist in the band Starflyer 59 in 2002 and 2003, appearing on live shows and contributing to their 2003 album Old. Instruments of Science and Technology, the singer's own electronic music project, appeared on his own electronic music side-project. Anywhere Cold recently ranked Swift in their year-end list, ranked Instruments of Science and Technology No. 68. On their 2005 Somewhere Cold Awards Hall of Fame, 9 individuals were inducted into their 2005 Somewhere Cold Awards Hall of Fame.

Swift appeared on numerous Michael Knott albums, CUSH, Kat Jones, Pony Express, Damien Jurado, Damien Jurado, and Miranda Lenz on Frank's solo tours.

Swift spoke about his recording methods in a 2007 interview, saying, "The bulk of my recording methods came from investigating photographs on the inside of Sly & The Family Stone or Beatles LPs, or simply watching Sympathy for the Devil and saying, 'Oh!'

That's where they put the mic!'"

Swift is known to make hefty contributions as a multi-instrumentalist to his albums. He began spending more time as a producer and band member in 2009 and started spending more time with other musicians. Damien Jurado's debut on Secretly Canadian recording artist Saint Bartlett came in May 2010. In 2010, Swift co-produced Laetitia Sadier's album The Trip, as well as What We Lose in the Fire We Gain in the Flood. He joined The Shins in 2011 and spent time as their bassist in 2014. Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats produced the self-titled album in 2015.

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