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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Chris Castle |
| Born | January 29, 1976 |
| Origin | Sandusky, Ohio, United States |
| Genres | Folk |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter community activist politician |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals Guitar harmonica |
| Years active | 1994–present |
Chris Castle (born January 29, 1976) is an American folk/Americana singer-songwriter.
Castle was born in Sandusky, Ohio, and his family moved to New London around the time he was four.[ citation needed ] His parents had migrated to Ohio from eastern Kentucky in the late sixties, and Castle was exposed to Appalachian Music from a very early age. His father (a Vietnam War veteran) committed suicide when Castle was nine years old; a theme that would later inspire Castle's first official single and video, Both Ends of A Gun.[ citation needed ]
Castle spent his teen years as a staff-writer in Nashville, Tennessee, working under such notable writers as Casey Kelly, Wood Newton, and Earl Bud Lee.[ citation needed ] At twenty-one, he would leave Music Row to again perform in bars and coffeehouses in northern Ohio. [1] [ better source needed ]
Castle enrolled in Bowling Green State University as a political science major, where he met Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee in 2006.[ citation needed ] The veteran playwright convinced him to return to songwriting and Chris began crafting the songs that would become Hollow Bones in Monotone. "He's the one who talked me into dropping out of college, so I can blame it on (him). He was telling me about holding up a mirror to our society and holding it up to yourself. He had great stuff to say about real art." [2] [ better source needed ]
Castle's 2007 release, Hollow Bones in Monotone, [3] established him at Americana/Folk radio and allowed him to tour more extensively throughout the US. That same year, Castle was named featured artist at Folk Alley, [4] [ better source needed ] in addition to being a finalist in the Granite State Songwriting Contest, in Newmarket, New Hampshire.[ citation needed ]
In January 2012, Castle released Last Bird Home through his own record label, Dirtsandwich Music Company. [5] Dirtsandwich also served as Castle's publishing arm, and was a BMI-affiliated limited-liability corporation.[ citation needed ] The album was recorded and in 2011 at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, New York. Contributing to the performances were The Band's Garth Hudson, Maud Hudson, Tommy Ramone of the Ramones, Gabriel Butterfield (son of Blues musician Paul Butterfield) and The Womack Family Band, among others. [6] Last Bird Home marked the first chart success of Chris Castle's long career.[ citation needed ]
Castle returned to performing in October 2019, releasing his first collection of new songs in nearly a decade. "Still Portrait Of A Spinning Wheel" was released on October 4 at Cleveland's Beachland Ballroom and Tavern.[ citation needed ] In June of 2023, he returned to Woodstock to join producer Larry Campbell, engineer Justin Guip, and bassist Brandon Morrison at Milan Hill Studios to record Long Way to the Bottom, his first full-length album in more than ten years. The ten song LP includes material written between 2006 and 2023, and prominently features Campbell's string work on guitars, mandolin, fiddle, and pedal steel.
The New London Day 's Rick Koster calls Castle "a tunesmith of almost scary vision, narrative acumen and hooky instinct". [7]
Castle began focusing his energies on the city of Norwalk as a whole, through his Imagine Norwalk campaign. [8] [ better source needed ] Imagine Norwalk hosted several community-wide events throughout the summer of 2014 and 2015, which bolstered the local economy and garnered an exciting degree of citizen participation. The program was adopted by the Norwalk Economic Development Corporation in April 2015, and was presented the Ohio Art Education Association's "Distinguished Business/Organization for Art Education" award for north central Ohio the following October.[ citation needed ]
Castle was honored in October 2014 by Norwalk City Council and both the Ohio House of Representatives and the Ohio Senate. [9] The Norwalk Economic Development Corporation (NEDC) recognized Castle and Imagine Norwalk with their 2014 "Innovation Award". [10]
In April 2015, Castle was named Assistant Director for the Norwalk Economic Development Corporation (NEDC) where he focused on the Norwalk area's business attraction, retention and expansion efforts. [11] That same year, he was elected to Norwalk City Council, garnering 58% of ward four votes, beginning a four-year term in January 2016. [12]
In March 2017, Castle co-sponsored legislation with at-large Councilman Kelly Beck, which would have legalized medical marijuana cultivation within the city of Norwalk. The ordinance passed in a 4–3 vote but was quickly vetoed by Norwalk Mayor Rob Duncan. [13]
In June 2017, Castle began producing and co-hosting a Norwalk-centric video podcast called The Maple City Minute with fellow Norwalk City Council member Samantha Ludwig Wilhelm. He resigned from his position at the Norwalk Economic Development Corporation in September 2017, to re-focus his energies on the podcast and on the wider-reaching goal of overall community development. [14]
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| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||
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| Roots Music Report | Roots 66 | Freeform American Roots | AMA Internet Chart | AMA Terrestrial Chart | |||||
| Hollow Bones in Monotone |
| — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Songbook Volume I |
| — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Of God & Man |
| — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Last Bird Home |
| 5 | 7 | 26 | 26 | 73 | |||
| Still Portrait Of A Spinning Wheel |
| — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Long Way to the Bottom |
| — | — | — | — | — | |||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||
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