Production · Performance
Mike Stewart
real name Michael Gassen Stewart
Mike Stewart is credited on 619 releases across 117 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1958–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
619
Credits
117
Albums
8
Decades active
275
In collections
Biography
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Born 19.04.1945, Riverside, California, USA
Died 13.11.2002, Sacramento, California, USA
Mike Stewart, singer/guitarist/banjoist, was the guitarist of folk-rock quintet We Five. He also arranged most of the group’s music. He is the brother of John Stewart and father of Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart.
After We Five dis-banded Michael formed a Bay Area (CA) group called West. Later he became a successful producer with his most prominent work Billy Joel's "Piano Man", producing more than 20 albums and singles for such artists as Tom Jones, Kenny Rankin and Ahmad Jamal. Associated with Devonshire Studios. In the 90's he became a computer programmer.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
619 releases · 117 albums · active 1958–2025
- Production · 508
- Performance · 450
- Other credits · 42
- Engineering · 2
- Mastering · 1
Studios: Devonshire Studios · Crystal Sound · Columbus Recorders, San Francisco · Independent Recorders
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Piano Man
1973

Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II
1985

Streetlife Serenade
1974

Live At The Great American Music Hall, 1975
2023

The Essential Billy Joel
2001

Silver Morning
1974

The Painter
1976

Inside
1975

Greatest Hits Vol. I
1985

The Kenny Rankin Album
1977

The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 1
2021

The Hits
2010

The Ultimate Collection
1999

Intervals
1980

The Phoenix Concerts - Live
1974

You Were On My Mind
1965

Sunny Side!
1963

Piano Man / The Entertainer
1989

Rock Classics Of The '70s
1989

Genetic Walk
1980

Big Shot
1979

Honesty
1978

Fire In The Wind
1977

New Arrangement
1975
Frequent collaborators
- Billy Joel
- Kenny Rankin
- John Stewart (2)
- We Five
- The Kingston Trio
- Randy Edelman
- Tom Jones
- Ahmad Jamal
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