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Latest Release: Now Available — Chuck's newest studio album featuring 12 new songs (including 3 new baseball songs). Recorded with J.P. Cormier on Cape Breton, NS. (more info) |
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May 1 - 10, 2012 Aug. 30 - Sept. 8, 2012 |
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“If Mark Twain were reincarnated as a musician, his name might be Chuck Brodsky... Fun, heart-warming, witty tales...there’s a lot more to this songwriter than an eye for criticism and disillusionment." –Florida Today |
“Reflects the good old U.S. of A., warts and all... colorful tales...reminds us there's a whole wide world outside our doors." –Rolling Stone |
"What tales this singer-songwriter from Philadelphia has...
With insight and good humor, he has taken these life experiences and distilled them into old fashioned story songs brimming with wit and compassion." ---New York Times |
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This down to earth musical storyteller, with his dry, barb-witted social commentary combined with a deep underlying compassion, knows that the best stories are the little things in the lives of everyday people trying to muddle through with some grace. His great gift as a writer is to infuse these stories with humanity and humor, making them resonate profoundly with his listeners. His spoken introductions to his songs can be as spellbinding as his colorful lyrics, which he brings to life with a well-travelled voice and a delivery that's natural and conversational. His groove-oriented strumming and fingerpicking draw on influences from the mountains of western North Carolina where he now lives, and from lots of different good old traditional folk stuff of all kinds. "Down-to-earth lyrics about ordinary folk sung in an often jocular, Chuck Brodsky's songwriting pokes fun at political corruption, road rage, mischief he made as a kid, even dumping garbage in the river; he sings about unsung heroes and forgotten but incredible people…odd characters from the game of baseball, migrant fruit pickers, the Goat Man, a clown, or “Radio,” a developmentally disabled man and the love showered on him for 40 years at a high school in South Carolina (this song was used in the 2003 movie “Radio”). In addition to being fixtures on the Dr. Demento show, his songs have been recorded by Kathy Mattea, David Wilcox, Sara Hickman, Chuck Pyle, and many others, and his tune “Blow ‘em Away” was selected by Christine Lavin for Shanachie's 1996 “Laugh Tracks” album. He's appeared on nationally syndicated radio programs “Mountain Stage,” “Acoustic Cafe,” and “River City Folk,” and has performed three concerts of his celebrated baseball story songs at the National Baseball Hall of Fame. "One of the finest singer-songwriters in America.
"Amazingly sensitive...finely honed songs...Wonderfully real...Songwriter extraordinaire...from the touching to the darkly humorous...In a grand tradition that runs from Guthrie through Dylan, Prine, and even Chuck has toured extensively throughout the US, Canada, and Ireland for 18 years, playing at folk festivals such as Tønder in Denmark, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Kerrville, Philadelphia, Strawberry, the Lincoln Center Out of Door series in New York, and others. He has also performed in Israel, Lithuania, and the Shetland Islands. Some of the artists he's appeared in concert with include Arlo Guthrie, Janis Ian, Pete Seeger, Tim O'Brien, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, John Hartford, Greg Brown, Gillian Welch, Dick Gaughan, Tom Paxton, Ferron, Richie Havens, Patty Larkin, Steve Forbert, The Kingston Trio, and Christine Lavin. His influences include John Hartford, Mark Twain, Nic Jones, Bob Dylan, Lowell George, Jackson Browne, Steve Forbert, The Carter Family, Woody Guthrie, and David Massengill. "He is an extroadinary talent in my opinion.
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"Baseball's troubadour poet laureate... |
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Chuck Brodsky - Songs recorded by other artists: “Blow ‘em Away” “We Are Each Other's Angels” "Take it out Back" "Our Gods" "On Christmas I Got Nothing" “Home Away From Home Again” “Come Here’s & Been Here’s” “Lefty” "How Beautiful She Looks" "Ballad of Eddie Klepp"
Festivals Where Chuck Has Played: Vancouver Folk Music Festival - 2005
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