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Biography
Infobox musical artist|name = Chris Castle|image = Chris_Castle_in_Mansfield,_OH_2007.jpg|caption = Chris Castle, 2007|image_size =220|background = solo_singer|birth_name = Chris Castle|alias =|Born = January 29, 1976|death_date =|origin = Sandusky, Ohio , United States|instrument = Lead singer|Vocals Guitar harmonica |genre = Folk music|Folk |occupation = Singer-songwriter |years_active = 1994 – present|website = http://www.dirtsandwich.com Chris Castle (born January 29, 1976, in Sandusky, Ohio ) is a Folk music|folk / Americana (music)|Americana singer-songwriter . Cleveland Magazine has described his writing as an "authentic connection to the world-weary soul of American roots music",Jim Vickers, Cleveland Magazine (Cleveland, Ohio) May, 2008 while The New London Day 's Rick Koster calls Castle "a visionary songwriter"Rick Koster, The Day (New London, Connecticut), August 7, 2008 and "a tunesmith of almost scary vision, narrative acumen and hooky instinct". http://www.theday.com/article/20110505/ENT10/305059385
Early life
Born in Sandusky, Ohio, in 1976, Castle's family moved to the village of New London, Ohio around the time he was four. His parents had migrated to Ohio from eastern Kentucky in the late sixties, and Castle was exposed to Appalachia n 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 . http://www.dirtsandwich.com dirtsandwich.com accessdate=10-01-2008
Early career
Castle spent his teen years as a staff-writer in Nashville, Tennessee , working under such notable writers as; Casey Kelly (The Cowboy Rides Away), Wood Newton ( Bobbie Sue ), and Earl Bud Lee ( Friends in Low Places ). At twenty-one, he would leave Music Row to again perform in bars and coffeehouses in northern Ohio.Adam Mastroianni, Norwalk Reflector (Norwalk, Ohio) July 31, 2007
Castle enrolled in Bowling Green State University as a Political Science major, where he met Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee in 2006. 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."Dave Richards, Erie Times-News (Erie, Pennsylvania) September 15, 2011
As A Recording Artist
Castle's 2007 release, Hollow Bones in Monotone , received solid reviews, http://www.coolcleveland.com/index.php? n=Main.Geekdom coolcleveland.com accessdate=10-01-08 and established Castle as an accepted player in the modern Folk music|folk scene. That same year, Castle was named featured artist at Folk Alley, http://www.folkalley.com folkalley.com in addition to being a finalist in the Granite State Songwriting Contest, in Newmarket, New Hampshire . http://www.myspace.com/gssongwritingcontest Granite State Songwriting Contest at MySpace, accessdate=10-01-2008
In January of 2012, Castle released Last Bird Home through his own record label, Dirtsandwich Music Company . Dirtsandwich also serves as Castle's publishing arm, and is a BMI-affiliated limited liabilty corporation. The album was recorded and mixed in late Summer of 2011 by Grammy-winning engineer Justin Guip at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, NY . Contributing to the performances were the Band 's Garth Hudson , Maud Hudson, Tommy Ramone of the Ramones , Larry Campbell (musician) , Gabriel Butterfield (son of Blues legend Paul Butterfield ) and The Womack Family Band , among others. http://www.jambands.com/news/2011/08/01/members-of-the-band-and-the-ramones-join-chris-castle-in-the-studio Last Bird Home marks the first chart success of Chris Castle's long career.
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