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Chris Gantry (born December 29, 1942) [1] is an American country musician and songwriter known for his involvement in the outlaw country genre. [2] [3] [4] [5] Gantry is known for writing songs such as "Dreams of the Everyday Housewife." [6] [7] [8]
Jan 9, 2014 · Chris Gantry is an O.G. Nashville troublemaker, an outlaw before the term was adopted as a marketing handle. He's a singer-songwriter by trade, a beat poet and raconteur at heart, and a...
Sep 1, 2024 · Chris Gantry meanwhile weaves in and out of songwriting and at Shel Silverstein’s inspiration writes plays and children’s stories; and then in a remarkable turnaround several years later, he returns to recording new songs again.
Dec 8, 2017 · Vinyl LP, Compact Disc (CD) Informed by rock, urban folk, and Beat poetry, Gantry was an unlikely prospect for the Music Row publishing houses, but after getting kicked out of a college about 100 miles from Nashville in 1963, he made his way to the country music hub.
May 7, 2019 · Chris Gantry casts an eye back on a hardscrabble utopia in his reverent new ballad “Life Well Lived,” the first track to be debuted from his newly announced LP Nashlantis.
- Jeff Gage
Jul 25, 2019 · On Nashlantis, Gantry writes about the vanished Nashville of half a century ago, when he composed one of the most wistful of late-’60s songs: “Dreams of the Everyday Housewife,” a...
Christopher Cedzich. Profile: Chris Gantry was born December 29th, 1942 in Queens, New York. He began his career as a singer/songwriter at age fourteen with a recording contract for Paramount Records. He moved to Nashville in 1963, after three years at Bethel College in McKenzie, Tennessee.
