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Biography As a , a storyteller, and one of outlaws of the 60's, Chris Gantry has written over 1,000 . Chris has written with the royalty of Nashville, including , , , and Eddie Rabbit. His songs have been recorded by artists such as , , Reba McEntire, kd lang, Robert Goulet, Wayne Newton and many others. Gantry penned the American classic, Dreams Of The Everyday Housewife sung by , which went to Number 3 on the charts in 1968. Gantry has previously written for Sony Music, Warner Chapel Music, and Faverett Music Group. *Biography Gantry currently writes for Cool Vibe Publishing. His recent autobiography, Gypsy Dreamers In The Alley, explores his life in the Nashville music *Press business from his arrival in the early 60’s through today. Gantry has written other books including *Awards and Father Duck Tales, a collection of short stories. His latest record, Chris Gantry at the , recorded over 40 years ago, and thought long Accolades lost. They were recently rediscovered by Johnny’s son , and have now been released *Performance and to the public for the first time. Chris’ history and impact on Nashville are currently on display at the Hall of Fame’s Music Videos recently opened Outlaws and Armadillos: Country’s Roaring 70’s exhibit. *Photos Chris Gantry continues writing music with some of today's brightest stars and living the life of a Gypsy *Additional Discography Dreamer. He is preparing for his upcoming tour and is busy promoting his latest book and release. *Current Releases and Artist Contact Nashville Scene: Chris Gantry’s Long-Shelved LP Is Progressive Even by 2017 Standards The notion that Nashville has always been hostile to musical innovation is a canard that fits neatly into standard critiques of modern country music. But plenty of people have been hospitable to experimenting with new ideas. For example, the strange performances that songwriter Chris Gantry recorded four decades ago at Hendersonville The House of Cash enjoyed the blessing of the studio’s equally famous owner, Johnny Cash. There, Gantry and a crew of session players combined folk, rock and in ways that would prove both uncommercial and prescient. Long thought lost and now issued for the first time as At the House of Cash, the avant-garde music Gantry and his fellow wrought still sounds weird today, but it could be that the times have finally caught up with one of Nashville’s most fascinating eccentrics. At the House of Cash collects 11 tracks Gantry recorded at the studio in late 1973 and early 1974 with a roster of musicians that included fiddler and guitarist Jerry Smith, who produced the sessions. Already a celebrated songwriter who had written Glen Campbell’s 1968 hit “Dreams of the Everyday Housewife,” Gantry displays jazz guitar chops on At the House of Cash, and he writes as an iconoclastic devotee of the work of Beat poet Gregory Corso. “I was totally into writing -type songs in the ’60s,” Gantry tells the Scene from his Nashville home. “But then I heard [’ 1963 jazz album] The Saint and the Sinner Lady. That’s what I presented into my music in those early days. When I got up to the Cash album, I just let it fly, and who gave a fuck.” Gantry was born in , Queens, in 1942 and grew up listening to classical music and rock ’n’ roll. After moving to Nashville in 1963, he wrote songs for tunesmith ’s publishing company and released his debut album Introspection in 1968. “That’s when we started our quest to do things differently in Nashville,” Gantry says of his time with Wilkin. Gantry’s 1970 full- length Motor Mouth remains one of the most agitated ever recorded in Nashville, and foreshadows the music Gantry would record three years later. At the House of Cash lay forgotten until Cash’s son John Carter Cash discovered the tape reels last year and sent them to Nashville journalist Peter Cooper, who then passed them on to Ohio-born producer and singer Jerry DeCicca, a longtime Gantry admirer. DeCicca, who produced the official release of At the House of Cash, had seen Gantry’s 2008 performance at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe, which he says prepared him for what he heard on the tapes. Gantry skews a shuffle on the House of Cash track “Dreamin’ of a Leavin’ Train” and recites “Hatred for Feeny,” the tale of a Dallas laundromat operator who emulates Jesus by wearing a zoot suit and a crown of thorns. Meanwhile, world-music band Oregon appears on the record’s “Tear,” another spoken-word piece. If At the House of Cash sometimes feels a little dense and prolix, it’s worth taking the time to absorb the force of Gantry’s jazz- To see the full article, click here: https://www.nashvillescene.com/news/article/13052053/singersongwinfluenced guitar and his Beat-influenced . The record represents Nashville modernism taken to the breaking point in an era riter-chris-gantry-remains-a-living-link-to-music-citys-ragged-and- that remained suspicious of modernism itself. Some tracks resemble Americana-style art songs, which makes Gantry a prophet of rowdy-bohemian-heyday post-country. “My destiny has put me in the place of the guy who is still in his right mind, still has the energy and can tell the story,” he says about the part of his half-century career in which he became one of Music City’s most innovative . “I’m the scribe of the Nashville era.” Edd Hurt 11/16/2017 Chris Gantry is the *Chris Gantry wrote the *Chris Gantry won Dreams Of The the most consistent, Everyday Housewife sung by Glen Campbell. Williams dedicated, creative It won three BMI honors Playwriting Contest artist that I have ever including the with a collection of Millionaire's Award for known . over two million one-act plays KRIS KRISTOFFERSON performances. entitled Teeth and Nails.

*His recent Chris Gantry plays a autobiography, significant part in the Gypsy Dreamers In Outlaws and The Alley, has Armadillos: Country’s received glowing Roaring 70’s exhibit at reviews from both the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, the Tennessean and Tn. USA Today. LeeAnn Womack Truck Allegany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVpcCdUiy90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No9P5rpTXBM

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Dreams of the Everyday Housewife The Ghost of Music Row https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5326l8I6ztQ I Hold my Phone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ6QPUUfDmQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v =axVWGLzXTfY Photo of the Chris Gantry Fan Above: What goes around comes Club in it’s early days. around. Chris Gantry in front of this historical photograph on display as you enter the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tn. L to R: Shel Silverstein, , Kris Kristofferson, Chris Gantry FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT CHRIS GANTRY, GO TO HIS WEBSITE AT: www.chrisgantry.com

Be sure to visit Chris Gantry’s Facebook Page! LATEST BOOK RELEASE LATEST ALBUM RELEASE GYPSY DREAMERS IN THE ALLEY CHRIS GANTRY AT THE HOUSE OF CASH IN A COLLECTION OF STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS, CHRIS GANTRY GIVES THE THE ALBUM GANTRY RECORDED IN 1973 IN CASH’S STUDIO, IS FINALLY BEING READER AN EXCLUSIVE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL LOOK INTO THE MUSIC BUSINESS RELEASED ON DRAG CITY RECORDS. THE ALBUM IS A SURREALIST MASTERPIECE AND OUTLAW MOVEMENT OF NASHVILLE DURING THE '60S. PRAISED BY USA THAT PLUNGES INTO THE OBSERVATIONAL FLAIR OF COUNTRY’S MELANCHOLY TODAY AND THE TENNESSEAN, IT IS CLEAR GYPSY DREAMERS IN THE ALLEY AND HARDWIRES IT WITH THE EXPANSIVE FREEDOMS OF PSYCHEDELIA, JAZZ AND INTEGRATES CHRIS' GIFT OF SONGWRITING INTO STORYTELLING THROUGH ELECTRONICS. THOSE FOUR DECADES HAVNE’T WORN AWAY THE BOLDNESS AND THIS BEAUTIFUL MEMOIR. BRAVERY OF THE ALBUM., WHICH OFFERS YET ANOTHER ANGLE ON NASHVILLE IN ONE OF IT’S MOST CREATIVE PHASES. IT’S ALSO ANOTHER LESSON IN LIFE FOR GANTRY HIMSELF: “I’VE LEARNED THAT IF YOU DO GOOD WORK AND IT’S HEARTFELT, AND YOU’RE SINCERE ABOUT WHAT YOU’RE CREATING, IT WILL GET FOUND. IT WILL SURFACE, IT WILL FIND YOU, AND IT WILL COME BACK AGAIN. “

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