Peter Malick

Peter Malick
Background information
Born	(1951-11-28) November 28, 1951 Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.
Genres	Blues, rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, record producer
Instrument	Guitar
Years active	1967–present
Labels	Capricorn, E1
Website	www.petermalick.com

Peter Malick (born November 28, 1951) is an American blues guitarist, record producer and entrepreneur. He's currently the CEO of InboundAV.

Music career

In the late 1960s, Malick was a member of the band Listening. Listening was signed by Vanguard Records in New York City when Malick was sixteen.

He played guitar with blues pianist Otis Spann, who invited Malick to live with his family in Chicago. Over the years, Malick backed up and toured with blues musicians such as Muddy Waters, Big Mama Thornton, and John Lee Hooker. Later, Malick was a conductor and music director for the national touring company of Hair. Malick next joined the James Montgomery Band, recording First Time Out and High Roller, both for Capricorn Records.

For the next 20 years, he made money at cards. He returned to music in the 1990s, recording Wrong Side of My Life (1998) and Sons of the Jet Age (2000). He won the W.C. Handy Award for historic album of the year in 2001 for the Otis Span album Last Call. Two years later he wrote and produced the album New York City featuring Norah Jones.

Malick opened Chessvolt Studios in 2006, a recording studio where he worked with a number of indie artists including Hope Waits, Courtney Jones, and Butch Norton. While running Chessvolt, Malick and his partner ran Luxury Wafers Sessions, which hosted live recording sessions with artists including Mother Mother, Gaby Moreno, J Tillman (Father John Misty), Langhorne Slim, Dengue Fever, Heartless Bastards, and Lissie.

Malick closed Chessvolt Studios in 2009 but continued to make music, including co-writing the album Wix n' Lix with drummer John Wicks and writing and producing the song "27 Years" with the Korean Jung Yong Hwa.

Entrepreneurship and marketing

Malick shifted his professional focus in 2013, becoming CMO of Westlake Pro Audio in Los Angeles.

In January 2017, Malick left Westlake Pro Audio to pursue his own marketing business, first as co-founder of Lumen Foundry, and later that year, as founder and CEO of InboundAV which he still owns and operates. InboundAV, an inbound marketing agency, initially catered to the professional audio and music industry. Malick has since led InboundAV to expand its reach, acquiring a number of clients outside of the pro audio industry. Under his leadership, InboundAV became a Platinum HubSpot Solutions Partner and earned HubSpot’s Custom Integration Accreditation.

Talks and presentations

• 6 Steps to Supercharge Your Email Marketing (2017)
• Adventures in Woo. From Novice to Ninja (2017)
• 5 Reasons Your Online Marketing Isn’t Working—and How to Fix It (January 2020)
• Website Strategies in the New Normal (2020)
• Build Your Million-Dollar E-commerce Marketing Stack on a Shoestring (January 2021)

Awards

• W. C. Handy Award, Last Call (2001)
• Top Blues Album, Billboard magazine, New York City (2003)

Discography

• Wrong Side of My Life (Mr. Cat, 1998)
• Sons of the Jet Age (Mr. Cat, 2000)
• New York City (eOne/Koch, 2003)
• Chance & Circumstance (eOne/Koch, 2003)
• New York City: The Remix Album (eOne/Koch, 2004)
• The Chill Album (eOne/Koch, 2005)

with James Cotton Blues Band

• Cut You Loose (Vanguard, 1967)

with Listening

• Listening (Vanguard, 1968)

with James Montgomery Band

• First Time Out (Capricorn/Warner Bros., 1973)
• High Roller (Capricorn/Warner Bros. 1974)

with Butch Norton

• Duets from the Spin Dry Cycle (Luxury Wafers, 2010)

with Jung Yong-hwa

• 27 Years (FNC, 2015)

with John Wicks

• Wix n Lix (Luxury Wafers, 2015)

As producer

• Otis Spann's Last Call: Live at Boston Tea Party (Conqueroot 2001)
• Nada Bhava (Anusara, 2007)
• Starting Ground, Josh Blackburn (Mr. Cat 2007)
• Whiskey with Free Dominguez (2006)
• Transcendence, Tony Khalife
• Miles, JOHNA (2013)
• Grow, Spencer Livivngston (2013)
• Axels and Sockets, The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project (2014)
• All The Things That Fall, Courtney Jones (LuxuryWafers 2013)
• The Long Way Home, Johna (2016)

Movies and television

• Runaway Jury (2003)
• Third Watch
• Lullaby (2004)
• Broke Sky (2007)
• Twisted (2013)

External links

• George Graham Review of The Peter Malick Group: Chance & Circumstance
• Rambles Magazine Review
• Boston Sound Review - Neat old images
• NPR:Otis Spann's Last Recording