Chuck Hawthorne

about

“He bent minors out of majors with a ball-peen revelator. Lord, how he could make that hammer sing!” An Amarillo, Texas native, Chuck Hawthorne has been writing and performing for over 20 years amassing a catalog of unique, well-crafted and starkly honest songs. They’re sometimes deadly serious; sometimes raucous, and always passionately written and delivered. As fellow musician Shawn T. Pabst once remarked, “…A man with the courage of a warrior, the heart of a poet, and a soul as old as time.” “Halos roll down the creases of your cowboy hat. Souvenirs hang from mirrors that don’t look back…” Growing up around cowboys and ranchers of the Texas Panhandle, his music is heavily influenced by the culture of the west. Drawing from the same well as his Panhandle music forbearers Terry Allen, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, and Jimmy Dale Gilmore et al, his compositions strike universal heartstrings from a singularly vast and barren landscape. His sister taught him to sing and play a 1950’s-era Magnus organ as a child and his passion for music began to be fueled by the popular country and folk artists of the era. “Sometimes you live for what you’re doing. Sometimes you do just what you can….Living your life like a rodeo man.” Joining the Marines immediately after high school, Chuck set about on a series of adventures that took him all over the world. His music went with him. Learning to play guitar on a Navy ship in the Mediterranean Sea, he soon found himself entertainin

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Fire Out Of Stone

Silver Line

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Such Is Life

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Amarillo Wind

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Confessions of a Snap Shirt Junkie

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Boot Liquor: Americana roots music for Cowhands, Cowpokes and Cowtippers. [SomaFM]

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Angel's Share

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Such Is Life - Single

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Silverline

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1773 - Kati Lobo Kati

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A Gathering of Old Friends: A Tribute to Richard Dobson

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Chuck Hawthorne

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