Hailing from rural north Louisiana, Chris Canterbury, grew up midway between Austin, TX and Memphis, TN, with good books and bad movies as baby sitters. Somewhere along the way the books and movies gave way to words. Scrap paper, receipts, notebooks...any blank space was filled. When the words gave way, there was only one way for them to give: into song. Drawing equally from Sergio Leone's "uomo senza nome" and Warren Zevon's funny/scary baritone, Chris began to play his characters into life; line cooks, liquor store clerks, hapless romantics, and bad girls gone worse populate the bar rooms and bus stations of his songs. He approaches the homesick and the home free with the same wary eye, but gives them both a voice that aches to be heard.

The Other Side

Shreveport In The Rain

Mad Dog Kind Of Morning

Cigarette Smile

A cover of the Rolling Stones track, Dead Flowers.

Dead Flowers

This track is from the album Poets, Prophets, And All Things Forgotten and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/chriscanterbury2

Sideshow Blues

Don't Be Crazy

Silver Watch and Chain

Two Smiles Collide

Where to Find Me (Back Porch Session)

Born and raised in the pine hills of north Louisiana, Chris Canterbury comes from the grimey reminants of a small oil patch town. A lifestyle long gone from reality but still lingering in the songs he sings. Now based in Nashville, Tennessee, Chris is touring in support of his first full-length album, "Poets, Prophets, and All Things Forgotten. From pool halls to music halls, festivals to front porches, Chris's live show, band or acoustic, is the whiskey-soaked prospectus that everyone can relate to.

Chris Canterbury

Popular tracks