Chris Watts[/caption]Kelsey Trautman-Nashville, TN /GHN – Central Louisiana native Chris Watts introduces his “Crescent City Country” to the world with the independent release of his debut album CENLA on September 10, 2013. Grammy Award-winning producer Jack Miele (Zac Brown Band, Cee Lo Green, Ani DiFranco) called Chris’ songwriting “so personal and engulfing that it’s almost impossible to not find yourself entrenched in his storytelling right from the first listen.”
CENLA was recorded at Fudge Recording Studio in New Orleans, LA, by Miele and funded through Watts’ successful Kickstarter campaign. “With a voice so natural and believable, anything that Chris sings will be eternally his,” Miele said.
With country music’s top superstars grabbing headlines over social media feuds, critics are calling CENLA a breath of fresh air. According to Gainesville Times’ Brent Holloway, CENLA “resurrects an ethos that is noticeably absent from the country charts of 2013.” Southern-fried in sincerity and grit, CENLA blends boot stompin’ country rock with ten small-town tales of beauty and heartache.
Whether it’s the Bonnie and Clyde police chase in the outlaw anthem “Cenla” or the soldier who never returned in “Fireworks Over Buhlow,” CENLA gives listeners the honesty they’ve been deprived of by many of today’s country albums. “It is a hard-living, swaggering and bent-but-not-broken sound taken from equal parts Texas Outlaws and Neo-Traditionalists. This is the sound we've been missing,” Holloway said.
Chris describes his music as “Crescent City Country,” paying homage to New Orleans, the city he lived for years honing his craft. In 2005 Chris was shot in the New Orleans Superdome while on Louisiana National Guard duty for Hurricane Katrina. “New Orleans is inside me forever. Crescent City Country is my way of keeping her spirit alive everywhere I go,” Chris said.
Chris currently resides in Nashville, TN, and will begin touring in December with CD release parties in Alexandria, LA, and New Orleans, LA. CENLA is now available on CD copy and digital download.
For full biography, multimedia, and press: http://www.chriswattsband.com
Stream the album CENLA: http://chriswattsband.
Official “Cenla” music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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Editors Note: Chris Watts' writing skills have been lauded by everyone from his University instructors to fellow professional writers and musicians. His music is just one among many of his talents.
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