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About Me

MONKEY CHILD is a rock band playing music written by their founder Chuck Clawson and by keyboardist Dave Bauer. Monkey Child is also an aggressively indie songwriter collaboration that keeps it's chops sharp playing both originals and covers for clubs and private events around Colorado. Bassist and singer Mark Byrd lends his influence on arrangements and brings exceptionally solid licks on the p-bass. MONKEY CHILD's sound has been compared to John Hiatt, John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Guster, Van Morrison and Ryan Adams.

We call what we do alt.roots, but that's our name for it. We've been labeled heartland, Americana, and pop-rock. Whatever it is, we write, play, and produce it ourselves. This is a long-lived project - we've been working together over five years now and plan to continue. Portions of our next album are already recorded. Dave and Chuck continue to write new material, and we continue to gig frequently.

Monkey Child's debut CD, "The Long Shot", was recently released by Obsolete Records, and can be purchased for $10 at any of our live shows, or for $12 at our CD Baby page.

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Member Since: 12/8/2005
Band Website: http://www.monkeychild.com
Band Members: Chuck Clawson (guitar, lead vocals), Mark Byrd (bass, backing vocals), Dave Bauer (keyboards, lead and backing vocals), Dennis Hurlburt (drums)
Influences: Everything from Bach to Hank Williams to Frank Zappa. Except ABBA. Definitely no ABBA influences.
Sounds Like: John Mellencamp, Ryan Adams, Guster, John Hiatt, John Mayer, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Los Lonely Boys, Doobie Brothers
Record Label: Obsolete Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

OUR FINAL SHOW - May 22 at The Fat Frog

It has been a great 6 year run for Monkey Child. The band started in late 2003, and since December of that year, Chuck on guitar, Mark on bass and Dave on keys have formed the constant nucleus of the...
Posted by on Sat, 16 May 2009 11:54:00 GMT

Sundance

Our keyboard player Dave will be at the Sundance/Slamdance Film Festivals in Park City UT later this month, armed with lots of Monkey Child demos for filmmakers and other film industry folks. If...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:08:00 GMT

Shop ’til you drop

It's that time of year when we all overdose on tryptophan in our holiday turkeys, then race out at 5 AM the next morning to snag those too-good-to-pass-up holiday deals. By Friday afternoon we'r...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:40:00 GMT

our keyboard player Dave at the Park City Jazz Festival

Our keyboard player Dave co-wrote a song in a songwriting clinic with jazz singer Anna Wilson at the Park City Jazz Festival in Park City Utah last month. See Dave perform it with Anna and her band t...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:11:00 GMT

Anybody ever attended the Durango Songwriters Expo?

Monkey Child's keyboard player Dave is seriously considering signing up for the Durango Songwriters Expo this year. Has anyone had any experience attending this in past years? If...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:21:00 GMT

Being on the radio

Being an indie band of "older guys" from Denver, we don't have any real aspirations of making it big. Success, if we're lucky, might be defined in smaller terms - placing a song in a f...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:44:00 GMT

CD Release Shows!

We’ve got two CD release shows scheduled! Saturday May 3 - What better place than the Jamestown Mercantile for us to play the CD and make it available for the first time? We’ve playe...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:34:00 GMT

When you have it in your hands for the first time...

It’s so cool when you have it in your hands for the first time. It’s cold. It’s hard and inflexible. But the colors look just right. And it speaks to you. The ...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:36:00 GMT

join us on Facebook

You all have a Facebook page, right? Of course you do. So become our newest fan over there. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Monkey-Child/6326808548 You know you want to... you kn...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:38:00 GMT

CD Status

The CD is done - at least the music part... 15 tracks, just a few seconds short of a full hour. The artwork is 80% finished. The replicator has tentatively been chosen. As soon...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 18:33:00 GMT