Who co-produced R.E.M.'s album 'Murmur' with Mitch Easter?

Don Dixon co-produced R.E.M.’s album Murmur with Mitch Easter. Their partnership shaped the band’s 1983 debut album, recorded primarily at Reflection Sound Studios in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Dixon and Easter were not simply outside supervisors: both had strong connections to the North Carolina independent-music scene, and their production helped preserve R.E.M.’s unusual balance of jangling guitar, melodic bass, energetic drumming, and Michael Stipe’s cryptic vocals. The band also co-produced its earlier Chronic Town EP with Easter.

Murmur was released by I.R.S. Records on April 12, 1983. It was praised for sounding distinctive rather than polished according to mainstream-rock conventions, and it eventually reached number 36 on the Billboard 200. A common mix-up is to associate Scott Litt with the record, because Litt later became one of R.E.M.’s best-known producers; he worked with the band on later albums, not Murmur.