Brandon Bell

Studio Director and Chief Engineer
Southern Ground Nashville

Education

• Recording Industry Audio Production 2004

Highlights

Based in Nashville, Brandon Bell is a Grammy Award-winning record engineer, mix engineer, and producer spanning several genres, including country, Americana, rock, pop and indie. Bell’s list of credits includes highly regarded artists such as Alan Jackson, Sarah Jarosz, Steep Canyon Rangers, Zac Brown Band, Foo Fighters, Tanya Tucker, Parker McCollum, Brandi Carlile, Earl Scruggs, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Dierks Bentley, Miranda Lambert, and Blackberry Smoke. In 2014, Bell assumed the role of studio director and chief engineer at Southern Ground Nashville, owned by acclaimed recording artist Zac Brown of the Zac Brown Band. This also led to his being a studio assistant for the iconic album Sonic Highways by Foo Fighters. Bell’s accolades are extensive, with multiple Grammy Awards and nominations. In 2013, he clinched the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album for his work on Steep Canyon Rangers’ Nobody Knows You. In 2023, he secured the Grammy for Best Americana Album for Brandi Carlile’s In These Silent Days, and in 2025, he won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album with Billy Strings’ Live Vol. 1. As an engineer in his own right, Bell was nominated for the 2022 ACM Engineer of The Year Award and received two Grammy Award nominations for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical—the first in 2006 for Alan Jackson’s Like Red on a Rose and the second in 2011 for Sarah Jarosz’s Follow Me Down. Bell is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University and is a Grammy, CMA, and ACM member.