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Charlie Cheney

Songwriting helps me breathe

About Me

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Hi, this myspace.com/charliecheney page had thousands of friends and over 10,000 plays and then it got deleted, then someone in Russia stole it, then myspace gave it back.
Hi, I'm Charlie. I'm a performing songwriter. Jackson Browne told me "I love your stuff, it's wonderfully delirious." Pat MacDonald said "I love your really sad songs and your really funny songs." The Capital Times called me "[a] gritty troubadour." Paulie Ryan (Garbage) told me "You're the best songwriter I know, your CD makes me laugh and cry both." Jonathan Spottiswoode wrote "I have now hereby patented the adjective 'charlie cheneyesque' to describe off-beat, dead honest, wacky, and beautifully eery songs."
Since June 2007, songs I've written have been selected for the SteelBridge Songfest compilation CD, the St. John Songfest compilation CD, and the February Album Writing Month compilation CD... and now another is slated for the upcoming SB4 CD this June. all the songs were written and recorded during those festivals and selected on merit, none of the CDs were "pay-for-play."
I released a solo CD "Giant Chicken" (available on iTunes or by mail ) in late 2006 and am planning a new CD for 2008. I'm currently booking spring, summer, and fall tours to the east and west.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/17/2007
Band Website: charliecheney.com
Influences: The New Depression Follies. Greg D'Allessio and his mom. The Rolling Stones. Marty Balin. Fred Eaglesmith . Bryan Thomas . King Crimson. Tommy Duncan.
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Record Label: Charlie Cheney
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Early Summer Flower pics from this morning...

We've been planting and weeding all spring... here are a few of the early summer flowers from our garden out back.We're loaded up on vegetable plants too, lots of squash, zucchini, pumpkin, tomato, on...
Posted by Charlie Cheney on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:32:00 PST

Steel Bridge Tickets Here

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Posted by Charlie Cheney on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:25:00 PST

Begin Now...

Just found this quote on a friend's Facebook page..."Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. " -Goethe***
Posted by Charlie Cheney on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:38:00 PST

2007 in retrospective

So, the last 12-18 months or so have been pretty amazing for old Chaz songwriting-wise really... it culminated today when I received the "fawmpilation" CDs in the mail with not one but three of my son...
Posted by Charlie Cheney on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 04:57:00 PST

FAWM.org compilation CD selection

One of the songs I recorded during FAWM 2007 has been selected for inclusion in the new FAWM Compliation CD coming out next month... hooray!http://blog.fawm.org/2007/10/announcing-fawmpilation- vol-3/ ...
Posted by Charlie Cheney on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:03:00 PST

Rocket To Russia...

So, this is the guy who had my myspace.com/charliecheney URL. The page is still there, but he doesn't have my URL anymore. It says he's from CA, but if you click on all his top friends they're all sup...
Posted by Charlie Cheney on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:15:00 PST