Chet Nichols - Full Biography
Chet Nichols' Music Biography
Chet Nichols is an award-winning singer-songwriter, composer, producer, recordist and multi-instrumentalist from the United States. He has toured extensively all over the USA and has lived in numerous cites including: Chicago, Los Angeles, Boulder, San Francisco, Kansas City, Oklahoma City and more. He has written over 2,000 songs/compositions and has produced 40+ CDs of original material.
Chet is in high demand to create, compose and produce for TV and film soundtracks, as well as placing songs with other artists.
Chet's first album was released in 1971. It was entitled, "Time Loop" and featured some All-Star musicians backing him up, including: Nicky Hopkins (The Stones), Pete Sears (The New Riders) and Dave Garibaldi (The Tower Of Power). It was followed by the album, "Waving Prairie" and he has been producing albums and an impressive catalogue ever since. To his credit, his focus on writing profound and great songs, his older and his newer albums and songs continue to entertain and draw new fans and followers around the world.
For example, as of the time of the writing these introduction notes for this website, the title tunes, "(Spinning On The) Time Loop" and "Waving Prairie" are STILL #1 songs in the Rock-Psychedelic and Folk, Folk-Americana charts at Broadjam.com. And he currently has over 50 songs on various Top Ten Charts on the Internet in a very wide array of genres.
Chet is an Inductee in The Kansas Music Hall Of Fame, joining artists like Pat Matheny, Melissa Ethridge, Martina McBride, Kansas and others. He is on The Chicago Actor's A-List of Chicago-born entertainers. He was nominated for an Honorary PhD from the Kansas University.
Chet's newest album, "Twilight Journals", has just moved to the pre-release stage, as final mastering and mixing is finalized. On 11/1/2016, Chet released a new album, "The Apocalypse". On May 3d of 2016, Chet released the critically acclaimed instrumental CD, "Music From Trees". This album which follows two, 2015, award-winning solo albums, "Bricks" and "Seeds".
In 2015, Chet released the critically-acclaimed CD, "Beetles Are Coming", produced by Stephen Barncard. His songs, "Jezebel", "Kilimanjaro Moondance", "Serengeti Rain", "Electra", "Walking In Circles" and "If You See Kaye" have won several "The Best Song Contests" at Broadjam.com. "I Know Who You Are" was a finalist in the IMSA Global songwriting competition and he has had hundreds of #1/Top 10 Internet hits.
His CDs, "Beetles Are Coming", "Music From Trees" and "I Was Dreaming", "Taxi To Tonganoxie" and "Waving Prairie" were selected by Pandora for inclusion on the Pandora playlists.
Chet released three new CDs in 2014, "I Was Dreaming", "Band In The Basement" and "Sunday Morning", which are follow-up CDs to his critically acclaimed CD, "Walking In Circles". The title tune won the Broadjam "Best Lyric Writing Contest". His songs are blended with unique stories and folk, rock, jazz, blues and world music.
Chet's instrumental CDs, "Peak To Peak", "Red Mesa Sunset" and "Earthways" are New Age World Fusion and filled with award-winning songs. "Red Mesa Sunset" was selected as a Top Twelve CD by eMusic.com. "Earthways" was recently selected as a Top Twelve CD by eMusic.com.
"Serengeti Rain", was awarded a Top Award in the Music Aid Songwriting Composition. "Serengeti Rain" was featured at The LA Museum of Contemporary Art's Spring Event. "Beijing Dawn" was #1 on the American Idol Underground World Charts and was a finalist in the Music Aid Songwriting Composition.
Chet's song, "The Last Riders On Route 66", won the Grand Prize in the Route 66 Theme Song Contest. It was lauded as "the best new song about Route 66 since Bobby Troupe's 'Get Your Kicks On Route 66'. His song, "The Mother Road", won the Grand Prize in the Route 66 Theme Song Contest in 2012.
Chet is the author of the #1 classic blues songs "I Come From Chicago" and "I Am The Ice Cream Man".
To this day, Chet quietly continues to write and produce quality musical experiences and songs and compositions used in TV, films and commercials.
Chet is also a published author and novel having penned two novels, "The Last Riders On Route 66" and "The Children Of Pentecost" and two books of poetry. He has also written numerous film and TV scripts and TV pilots.
His creative skills have also crossed over to work as an actor in front of the camera in commercials, feature films and television shows. He co-starred in "Payback", "Just Visiting", "The Lake House", "Good Burger" and others. He also co-starred in the television shows: "Home Improvement", "The Untouchables", "Unsolved Mysteries", "Early Edition", "Caroline In The City" and others. He has also starred in numerous plays across the USA including shows mounted at The Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, Mummers Theater in Oklahoma City, The Attic Theater in LA, to name a few.
He has also had a successful career in film, TV commercial film production as a creative director and producer in the major global ad agencies. Moreover, he has won numerous Clios, Gold Medals at the New York Film Production and Dallas Film Production Award Festivals, Webbys (for his web production work) and has managed numerous film production, special-effects companies, animation, music video, 3D production companies in LA, NY, Chicago, Toronto, Seattle, Germany and Tokyo.
Chet has an international following and has toured extensively and
performed at coffee houses, listening clubs, large concert venues,
major concert tours and college concert tours across the USA and Canada,
as a featured performing artist and as an "opening act" for artists and bands
including......
CHET NICHOLS
chet@chetnichols.net
http://chetnichols.bandcamp.com
MagicGarageMusic@protonmail.com
CONCERT & TOURING & RECORDING PERFORMANCES
The Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra
George Carlin
B.B. King
Linda Ronstadt
Ed Black (Linda Ronstadt)
Mike Bowden (Linda Ronstadt)
Mickie McGee (Linda Ronstadt)
Richard “Balloon” Bowden (Linda Ronstadt)
John Boylan (Linda Ronstadt)
Diane Davidson (Linda Ronstadt)
Nicky Hopkins (The Rolling Stones)
Henry Lewy (Joni Mitchell)
Jerry Lee Lewis
Jethro Tull
Roger McGuinn (The Byrds)
Ian Anderson
John Denver
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition
The Jefferson Airplane
Grace Slick
Jack Casady
Jorma Kaukonen
Spencer Dryden
Marty Balin
Paul Kantner
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
John McEuen
Jeff Hanna
Jimmie Fadden
Jimmy Ibbotson
POCO
Jimmy Messina (Poco, Loggins & Messina)
Timothy B. Schmidt (Poco, Eagles)
Rusty Young (Poco)
Paul Cotton (Poco)
Richie Furay (Poco, Buffalo Springfield))
John Lee Hooker
Steve Martin
Hot Tuna
Jack Casady
Jorma Kaukonen
Papa John Creach
Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
Dan Hicks
Maryanne Price
Sid Page
Naomi Ruth Eisenberg
Bob Scott
Jamie Leopold
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
John Dillion (Daredevils)
Randy Chowning (Daredevils)
Steve Cash (Daredevils)
Larry Lee (Daredevils)
Mike “Supe” Grande (Daredevils)
Buddy Brayfield (Daredevils)
The Guess Who
Burton Cummings
Randy Bachman
Garry Peterson
Kurt Winter
It’s A Beautiful Day
David LaFlemme
Linda LaFlemme
Patti Santos
Fred Weber
Mitchell Holman
Hal Wagenet
Pacific Gas & Electric
Jimmie Spheeris
Commander Cody & The Lost Planet Airmen
Mary Travers (Peter, Paul & Mary)
The Charlie Daniels Band
Country Joe McDonald & The Fish
The Grassroots
Creed Bratton
Rob Grill
P.F. Sloan
Steve Barri
Mason Profit
The Persuasions
Blue Oyster Cult
Big Brother & The Holding Company & Janis Joplin
John Kahn
Mark Naftalin
Leonard Nimoy
Bolo Sette
Southern Comfort
Ian & Sylvia
Humble Pie
Modern Folk Quartet
Richard Pryor
KC Grits
Larry Knight
Ewing Street Times
Steve Goodman
John Prine
Biff Rose
The Mary Clayton Band
Bill Spears
Ted Anderson
Danny Cox
Aliotta Haynes & Jeremiah
Brewer & Shipley
The Chad Mitchell Trio …. and many more.
RECORDING/STUDIOS BIO …
Stephen Barncard (David Crosby)
Nicky Hopkins (The Rolling Stones)
Henry Lewy (Joni Mitchell)
Nick Gravenities (Big Brother, Paul Butterfield)
Zakir Hussain (Ravi Shankar)
Fuzzy John Oxendine (Sons of Champlain)
Laura Allen (Laura Allen)
Buddy Cage (New Riders Of The Purple Sage)
Spencer Dryden (The Jefferson Airplane)
Dave Garabaldi (Tower of Power)
Pete Sears (The Jefferson Airplane)
John Kahn (Jerry Garcia, Mike Bloomfield)\
Sal Marquez (The "New" Tonight Show Band)
The New Riders Of The Purple Sage
Jack Shroer (Van Morrison)
Don Preston (Wings)
Steve Sperry (Flame)
Aliotta Haynes & Jeremiah
Dick Mark, Sr. (Dick Marx & Associates)
Brewer & Shipley, “Archive Live” Album
Bill Bradley (Universal)… and many others
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informative "historical" site about an influential, independent, American composer,
musician and singer-songwriter, Chet Nichols.
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