Stuart Sikes is an American recording engineer and producer best known for his work with the White Stripes and for engineering Loretta Lynn's Grammy Award-winning album Van Lear Rose, as well as producing Cat Power's 2006 Shortlist Music Prize-winning album The Greatest.
During this time, the studio worked on projects by such bands as Cat Power, Modest Mouse, the Walkmen, Rocket from the Crypt, and the Spinanes.
[1][2] Sikes' first project at the studio was Two Dollar Guitar including band members Tim Foljahn and Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley.
Back in Dallas, he engineered the Happy Bullets' 2005 album The Vice and Virtue Ministry, then returned to Ardent Studios in Memphis to produce Cat Power's 2006 Shortlist Music Prize-winning album The Greatest.
[3] In August, 2006 Sikes found a space for a permanent recording studio in the Elmwood residential area within the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas.