Chuck Cannon on Fri, March 11, 2016

“music for grown-ups who didn’t grow up”

born in greenville sc
moved to north sc
moved to myrtle beach sc
picked up baseball
found girls
put baseball down
picked up guitar
found girls who were more fun
moved to franklin springs ga
moved to nashville tn
picked up songwriting
married wrong girl
laid down songwriting
divorced wrong girl
picked up songwriting again
married again (better job this time)
3 awesome kids
wrote hits with over 20 million plays at radio
quit trying to do that
picked up guitar again
started making up songs for myself
songs got way better
made 3 cds
started performing
feel better now

“Watching Chuck Cannon for the first time, I decided he was as gifted a scribe as many of the folks on our list of the 100 Best Living Songwriters and funnier than most…”
Josh Jackson — Paste Magazine