Biography

Chet Nichols
Bio

Chet Nichols is an award-winning creative director, songwriter, composer, music producer, engineer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, film producer, animation producer, creative artist, designer, photographer, novelist, poet, TV and feature film actor and stage performer. Chet is also an accomplished Interactive Producer and Creative Content Specialist

Chet was just recently inducted into the Kansas Music Hall Of Fame. He joins artists like Pat Matheny, Melissa Ethridge, Martina McBride, Brewer & Shipley, Mike Finnegan and many other accomplished performers. He was also recently added to The Chicago Actor’s A-List of Chicago-born entertainers.

He has produced 14 CDs over his life of original material. He has produced music that has been used in films, television and radio. His novel, “The Last Riders On Route 66”, is currently in development to become a feature film. His movie script, “The Ghosts Of Santa Barbara” is also currently in development to become a feature film.

Chet’s latest CDs, “Red Mesa Sunset” and “Earthways” are New Age Ambient/World Fusion fare and are filled with award-winning songs. “Red Mesa Sunset” was recently selected to be a Top Twelve CD by the music editors of eMusic.com for the month of February, 2007. “Earthways” was recently selected to be a Top Twelve CD by the music editors of eMusic.com for the month of March, 2007. “Serengeti Rain”, a song on “Red Mesa Sunset”, was awarded a Special Mention in the Music Aid International Songwriting Composition in December, 2006. “Serengeti Rain”, “Red Mesa Sunset” and “Prayer Bucket” have been #1 on numerous Internet New Age Song Charts. “Serengeti Rain” was recently a featured composition at The LA Museum of Contemporary Art’s Spring Event. Another song, “Beijing Dawn” was recently #1 on the American Idol Underground World Charts. “Beijing Dawn”, a pre-released composition from his upcoming CD, “Peak To Peak”, was also just awarded a Special Mention in the Music Aid International Songwriting Composition in December, 2007.

Chet’s Route-66-dedicated CD, “Modern Progress” is filled with award winning songs. The song, “The Last Riders On Route 66”, won the Grand Prize in the International Route 66 Theme Song Contest in 2003. It was lauded as “the best new song about Route 66 since Bobby Troupe’s ‘Get Your Kicks On Route 66’. The song, “The Mother Road”, won the Grand Prize in the International Route 66 Theme Song Contest in 2004 ands was lauded as “the new anthem for Route 66 restoration and preservation”.

Chet has numerous other songs that have won many other awards. He is the
Author of the classic blues songs “I Come From Chicago” and “I Am The Ice Cream Man”. John Fahey once called Chet “America’s best acoustic guitarist”. Chet is a living, breathing Renaissance man with a big heart, a love for planet Earth, a bottomless sense of humor and an amazing zest for the creative arts.

Please stop by these websites for more information…….
http://www.chetnichols.net
http://www.magicgarageproductions.com
http://www.broadjam.com/chetnichols
http://LastRidersOn66.itgo.com

CHET NICHOLS
Stage Performance Resume
chetnichols@aol.com http://www.chetnichols.net

Chet has performed as a solo "Opening Act" in concert with:
The Jefferson Airplane
Jethro Tull
The Grateful Dead
George Carlin
Steve Martin
POCO
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Big Brother & The Holding Company
Linda Ronstadt
B.B. King
The Charlie Daniels Band
Dan Hicks & The Hotlicks
Brewer & Shipley
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils
It's A Beautiful Day
Pacific Gas & Electric
Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen
Mary Travers
Country Joe McDonald
The Grassroots
Hot Tuna
Mason Proffit
Blue Oyster Cult
Southern Comfort
John Lee Hooker
Richard Pryor
John Denver
The Guess Who
Steve Goodman
The Mary Clayton Band
Biff Rose
Bola Sete
Leonard Nimoy
Chad Mitchell
Roger McGuinn
The Kansas City Philharmonic ... and more

He has worked in recording studios with..................
Stephen Barncard (David Crosby)
Spencer Dryden (The Jefferson Airplane)
Nicky Hopkins (The Rolling Stones)
Dave Garabaldi (Tower of Power)
Pete Sears (The Jefferson Airplane)
Nick Gravinities (Big Brother and The Holding Company)
Sal Marquez (The "New" Tonight Show Band)
The New Riders Of The Purple Sage
Jack Schrorer (Van Morrison)
Henry Lewie (Joni Mitchell)
Don Preston (Wings)
Buddy Cage (New Riders)
Fuzzy John Oxedine
Wayne Goodwin
Laura Allan
Shelley Fox
Billy & Estrella Berosini