Chris Castle is a Rustbelt Americana songwriter from Ohio, who was writing songs (professionally) before he was old enough to drive. He spent his teen years in Nashville, working as a staff-writer under some of the best writers on Music Row.

Castle has shared stages with artists like: Chris Hillman (the Byrds), Jimmy Webb, Junior Brown, Tommy Ramone (the Ramones), Jim White, Richard Shindell, Darrell Scott, David Amram, Peter Case, Amy Speace, Jonathan Edwards, the everybodyfields, the Wood Brothers, David Wax Museum, Will Kimbrough, Radney Foster, Tommy Womack, Jeff Black, Jenny Owens Young and the Womack Family Band.

His latest release "Last Bird Home" spent nearly four months in the Top 20 at both the Roots Music Report and the Roots 66 Charts. It peaked at #5 RMR, #7 Roots 66, and #23 on both the AMA Internet and Freeform American Roots charts.

Last Bird Home was recorded at Levon Helm Studios (Woodstock, NY) by two-time Grammy winner Justin Guip (Levon Helm, Hot Tuna). It features guest performances by the Band's Garth Hudson, Tommy Ramone, longtime Bob Dylan and Levon Helm sideman Larry Campbell, Gabriel Butterfield (son of Blues legend Paul Butterfield) and the Womack Family Band, among others.
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