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Artist
Chris Wall
12+ albums
countryamericananew country
about
His career as a musician began after a move to Jackson Hole, Wyoming in 1986. While working as a bartender at the Million Dollar Cowboy Bar he began writing songs, and joined the legendary Rocky Mountain band Pinto Bennett and the Famous Motel Cowboys In 1988, an invitation from Texas troubadour Jerry Jeff Walker to write songs together brought Chris to Austin, Texas. He played dancehalls and clubs across Texas and throughout the country, as well as festivals and clubs in Europe. He opened concerts for many of his musical heroes, including Waylon Jennings, Guy Clark, Conway Twitty and George Jones. Chris was a widely respected songwriter, whom Ray Wylie Hubbard described as a “cowboy savior/hero/poet who, with his words and music gives us redemption from the atrocities of this illusion that is presently known as country music.” His classic, “I Feel Like Hank Williams Tonight,” recently recorded by Sunny Sweeney, was reviewed as “the best song ever to explain country’s plaintive appeal.” Ironically, he was most commercially successful for his tongue-in-cheek song “Trashy Women,” which was a Top 10 hit for Confederate Railroad in 1993. It made him, he liked to quip, “quite famous in the laundry room of my apartment complex.” In 1994 he was nominated for a Grammy award for the song. He was courted by Nashville after that success, but, as he said, “I just ended up putting a lot of miles on my truck.” Described as “one of the last real great country artists at the moment
