FRIDAY JAN 31, 2020
Chris Gantry
Chris Gantry (Christopher Cedzich) was born December 29th, 1942 in Queens, New York. He began his career as a singer/songwriter at age fourteen with a recording contract for Paramount Records. He moved to Nashville in 1963. Chris has written more than 1,000 songs some of them as collaborations with Nashville's best Kris Kristofferson, Mel Tillis, Shel Silverstein, and Eddie Rabbit. Over 100 of his songs were recorded by various artists including: Roy Clark, Johnny Cash, Sonny Curtis, Robert Goulet, Wayne Newton, Johnny Lee, Reba McEntire, Billy Walker, Garry Pucket, KD Lang, Yankee Grey, and Rhett Akins, including "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife", sung by Glen Campbell. "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" won three M.M.I. awards plus the Millionaires Award for over two million performances. It also won the Nashville Songwriter Award in 1968. Chris recorded five albums for Monument and ABC Dot Records and has written for Sony Music, Warner Chapel Music, and Faverett Music Group.
Chris won the Tennessee Williams Playwriting Contest with a collection of one act plays titled "Teeth and Nails". He also wrote a collection of published short stories entitled "Father Duck Tales".
Chris continues writing music with some of today's brightest up and coming stars and living the life of a Gypsy Dreamer! He currently writes for Cool Vibe Publishing in Nashville, Tennessee.
Chris Gantry (Christopher Cedzich) was born December 29th, 1942 in Queens, New York. He began his career as a singer/songwriter at age fourteen with a recording contract for Paramount Records. He moved to Nashville in 1963. Chris has written more than 1,000 songs some of them as collaborations with Nashville's best Kris Kristofferson, Mel Tillis, Shel Silverstein, and Eddie Rabbit. Over 100 of his songs were recorded by various artists including: Roy Clark, Johnny Cash, Sonny Curtis, Robert Goulet, Wayne Newton, Johnny Lee, Reba McEntire, Billy Walker, Garry Pucket, KD Lang, Yankee Grey, and Rhett Akins, including "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife", sung by Glen Campbell. "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife" won three M.M.I. awards plus the Millionaires Award for over two million performances. It also won the Nashville Songwriter Award in 1968. Chris recorded five albums for Monument and ABC Dot Records and has written for Sony Music, Warner Chapel Music, and Faverett Music Group.
Chris won the Tennessee Williams Playwriting Contest with a collection of one act plays titled "Teeth and Nails". He also wrote a collection of published short stories entitled "Father Duck Tales".
Chris continues writing music with some of today's brightest up and coming stars and living the life of a Gypsy Dreamer! He currently writes for Cool Vibe Publishing in Nashville, Tennessee.
The Last Tycoon
"The Last Tycoon is the Americana musical project of songwriter John Gladwin based in Atlanta, Georgia. Hailing from rural Arkansas, Gladwin learned to play in the jukejoints and churches of the Deep South. At eighteen he headed to Nashville and after several years, in 2009, moved to Stockholm, Sweden where he started The Last Tycoon project. Singing songs of love and execution, preachers and politics, Jesus and Johnny Cash, The Last Tycoon stood out in the Swedish indie pop scene. European tours inspired Gladwin to dig deeper into his roots to tell stories that can only come from the South. After three years in Europe John returned to America and now calls Georgia home. The Last Tycoon continues to be the vehicle for his writing and performance, and he is currently recording a new album with producer Jim White."
"The Last Tycoon is the Americana musical project of songwriter John Gladwin based in Atlanta, Georgia. Hailing from rural Arkansas, Gladwin learned to play in the jukejoints and churches of the Deep South. At eighteen he headed to Nashville and after several years, in 2009, moved to Stockholm, Sweden where he started The Last Tycoon project. Singing songs of love and execution, preachers and politics, Jesus and Johnny Cash, The Last Tycoon stood out in the Swedish indie pop scene. European tours inspired Gladwin to dig deeper into his roots to tell stories that can only come from the South. After three years in Europe John returned to America and now calls Georgia home. The Last Tycoon continues to be the vehicle for his writing and performance, and he is currently recording a new album with producer Jim White."
Gas Hound
Gas Hound is a blazing cyber wolf, with relentlessly tight and engaging songwriting. The live shows have been compared to sonically re-living landscapes from the Brother’s Grimm, Pale Rider, and Jim Jarmusch’s “Dead Man.” It rumbles like a tumbleweed murder machine, slogging across the arid lands of Moab yet culls longingly to the impermanence of the “Desierto Florido” in Atacama, Chile.
Gas Hound is the desert-inspired gutter folk project of Atlanta-based writer Benjamin J. Davidow (Staff Writer at Immersive Atlanta, Lead Guitarist and Co-Composer of both The Buzzards of Fuzz and Nuncio). The project has a natural ebb and flow which comes from it’s ability to suit a wide variety of listeners needs. It is just as heavy and pleasing acoustically as it can be sweetly destroying with a full five piece band. The live lineup rotates between some of Atlanta's finest musicians including the ever cunning singer-songwriter Ethan Fogus on pedal steel and keys, Matthew J. Pendrick on the percussive resonances, Nick Whitson on auxiliary interstellar chromo-tonics, and Dan Kirslis on the synthetic ivories.
Gas Hound is a blazing cyber wolf, with relentlessly tight and engaging songwriting. The live shows have been compared to sonically re-living landscapes from the Brother’s Grimm, Pale Rider, and Jim Jarmusch’s “Dead Man.” It rumbles like a tumbleweed murder machine, slogging across the arid lands of Moab yet culls longingly to the impermanence of the “Desierto Florido” in Atacama, Chile.
Gas Hound is the desert-inspired gutter folk project of Atlanta-based writer Benjamin J. Davidow (Staff Writer at Immersive Atlanta, Lead Guitarist and Co-Composer of both The Buzzards of Fuzz and Nuncio). The project has a natural ebb and flow which comes from it’s ability to suit a wide variety of listeners needs. It is just as heavy and pleasing acoustically as it can be sweetly destroying with a full five piece band. The live lineup rotates between some of Atlanta's finest musicians including the ever cunning singer-songwriter Ethan Fogus on pedal steel and keys, Matthew J. Pendrick on the percussive resonances, Nick Whitson on auxiliary interstellar chromo-tonics, and Dan Kirslis on the synthetic ivories.