Plenty of engineers and producers migrate from one side of the glass to the other: at some point, an engineer realizes she’s happier on the technical side, or a producer discovers his knack for getting the best out of bands in the studio. These changes often happen more organically than by conscious choice. Sheldon Gomberg’s transformation has been different from most….

Friends often ask engineer/producer Sheldon Gomberg how he stays positive in spite of what he’s lost. Once an in-demand bass player, Gomberg, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, is now relegated to a scooter. Sessions and tours are off the table since he lost his fine motor skills. The abilities that led him to play alongside Warren Zevon, Rickie Lee Jones, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and so many others are behind him. But his music career remains strong...

Sheldon Gomberg spent the first part of his life as a musician, touring and doing sessions with people such as Rickie Lee Jones, Warren Zevon, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Ryan Adams, Five for Fighting, Grant Lee Phillips, and more. He later transitioned into producing and engineering, working with such artists as Ben Harper, Charlie Musselwhite, Rickie Lee Jones, Peter Case, Peter Himmelman, Mark Eitzel, the Watkins Family Hour, etc….

The Songwriting School is proud to welcome Sheldon Gomberg! Sheldon has created so much enduringly beautiful music, as producer/engineer/mixer/session musician. He was one of the Producers of the 2014 Grammy-winning Blues Album of the Year (Ben Harper/Charlie Musselwhite's Get Up!), a record which he engineered and mixed entirely himself…

Today we’d like to introduce you to Sheldon Gomberg...

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Thanks for sharing your story with us Sheldon. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.

My story starts in Seattle. As a kid, I wanted to be a football player, a basketball player, a baseball player, a soccer player, a hydroplane racer, a policeman, a firemen, an ambulance driver and, “everything else in the whole wide world,” but as soon as I found music, everything else went out the window...

We are about to get inundated by a tidal wave of articles and reviews of Sweet Relief III, an album put together specifically to benefit Sweet Relief, a charity set up to help musicians in need. And why not? The lineup on the album is outstanding, artists ranging...