CHRIS SHRADER

Chris Shrader is a small town Tennessee kid, raised by his grandparents that now electrifies Nashville nightly! Regardless if it is a Nashville writers round or a full band show, Chris has a way of connecting with a crowd like none other. His musical influences growing up were many… Merle Haggard, Hank Williams Jr, Willie, Waylon, Brooks & Dunn, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Travis Tritt,  Big & Rich, Dolly, Reba, Eric Church, Toby Keith, Garth Brooks, Skynyrd, Seger, CCR, Bill Monroe,  Eminem, 2Pac, Biggie, Corey Smith, Smashing Pumpkins, Nickleback, and way too many more to list…. which helped Chris develop his very own unique sound. His show is high energy, deep rooted tons of 90’s music with decades of classic hits, and several different mashups. Chris works the show in a way that will have you making him a must see any and every time that he plays close to you!

As a standout football player, Chris had an opportunity to play at the college level, but things didn’t fall into place as he had hoped, and he found himself working in the real world. Searching for something to fill the void that sports left, Chris finally found the answer in music. A bad car accident almost cost him his life. After 28 days in a coma, over a month in the ICU, four months in a wheelchair, and 22 surgeries later, Chris took up the guitar. “I figured if I’m going to have to lie on this couch rehabbing all the time, I want to learn to play.”

He taught himself from the internet, then auditioned for a frontman slot in a house band four nights a week at Sundance Saloon in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. “I went from playing for my girlfriend to playing for 500+ people a night on the weekends. Six months later, he was recruiting Nashville-based musicians to play with him at various nightspots and dance halls in Tennessee. By the end of 2010, the friends he had recruited started recruiting him to move to Nashville. In the sumer of 2011 he officially made Music City home. Now he is an endorsed artist with GHS Springs, Taylor Guitars, and Clayton Picks, as well as other great companies, playing over 200 shows a year. Chris’s show is a must see any and every time that he plays close to you, check out his upcoming shows to see when he will be playing close to you.