Skip Sanders is a Pittsburgh engineer, producer and multi-instrumentalist. At his studio, Fallout Sound, he has spent more than two decades tracking, mixing and mastering records across rock, soul, jazz, Americana and broadcast work — and when a session needs keys, he's just as likely to be on the other side of the glass.

Skip plays Hammond B3 in Norside, the steel-city soul-jazz organ trio with guitarist Glenn Strother and drummer Steve Ippolito. Their album Mean Streets (PolyJam Records, 2023) was recorded at Fallout Sound and pressed as the label's first vinyl release (VJ-0001); their follow-up, Coal & Soul, is out on Color Red Records — produced, tracked and mixed by Skip, with the single "T-Bone" submitted for Grammy consideration in the jazz performance category. The trio tours behind the record. The trio has shared stages with Soulive, The New Mastersounds, Cyril Neville, Garaj Mahal, The Budos Band and The Bar-Kays.

He has been the keyboardist of Pittsburgh roots-rock band Good Brother Earl since the band's early days, and recorded and produced their albums Perfect Tragedy (2006), Fiction (2009) and Dog Years (2023) at the studio. His playing and studio work also run through the Glenn Strother Project's rust-belt funk records, a long-standing tenure with The Clarks (keyboards since 2008, on records from Restless Days through Madly in Love at the End of the World), and credits including Rusted Root (Stereo Rodeo and The Movement), Michael Glabicki, Bill Deasy (Being Normal, recorded at the studio), Brooke Annibale and Cello Fury. On the broadcast side he engineered the theme for CMT's Working Class and promo work for KDKA and the Rivers of Steel radio series.

Through his label and publishing company, PolyJam Records, Skip backs and releases new projects — from Norside's records to sessions for James Johnson, J Riley, Sathside Yard Apes, Jazzam and more.

Instruments: Hammond B3 with Leslie · piano · Fender Rhodes · Wurlitzer · guitar · mandolin · accordion · drums · bass.
University of Pittsburgh School of Music · 1998 Mellon Jazz Scholarship.