Seven Valleys, Pennsylvania
Lyricist, Singer-Songwriter, Songwriter

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BIOGRAPHY

CONSIDER THE VIEW
sometimes songwriting is all about recovery.
getting on your feet.
pushing up to your tiptoes.
hoping to get a better view of what just happened.
or what might happen.
or what happened a long time ago and something brought the memory rushing back.
it's a refusal to punt when you find yourself holding the ball.
kc 2007

Small town childhood...Barefoot in the river...Shakespeare in the park...for the love of "Story"...Too many questions...Capturing "moments"...the pursuit of excellence at the expense of ego...story teller...lyricist...Where it starts it ends. The songs might not always fall as Americana, but it is homegrown Americana that feeds them.

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Country, Singer/Songwriter, Pop

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Coffee Bean Music, I own my own publishing

Contact

Booking: karenchronister@gmail.com
Administrative: karenchronister@gmail.com

P.R.O.

ASCAP

INSTRUMENTS

keyboard / piano / vocals

INFLUENCES

Wayne Kirkpatrick, Amy Grant, Dave Barnes, Bonnie Raitt, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin, Tom Kimmel, Barry Dean, Sue Smith, Tony Wood, Bob Dylan, Matraca Berg, Joni Mitchell, Jennifer Knapp, Keith Urban, Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill, Jewel, Fleetwood Mac, Norah Jones, Diana Krall, Sara Evans, Bebo Norman, Jonatha Brooks, Rob Thomas, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash

DAY JOB

K. Chronister Commercial Writing Services

I AM INTERESTED IN

in co writing online
in co writing in person
in networking with songwriters
in pitching songs to artist
in pitching songs to tv
in getting a publishing deal

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
with others
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics

experience >

SONG CUTS

The Ludlows - "Say the Word" "My Goodbye" -- Song Contract with Amplified Music Group

AWARDS & ACCOLADES

4th Annual Jeffrey Steele Bootcamp -- September 2009. NEAG Songwriting Competition -- 2006 -- 1st Place "Better Than New". Co-writer, Shirley Logan.

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Legends: Bobby Braddock

In Nashville, most successful songwriters have a fairly short run. On hit, one year, two years, five years. Occasionally, we get one whose career approaches the length of a real career or, more often, one who has a few years success, then slips into oblivion, only to emerge again for another brief era of hit-making.

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Legends: Rickie Lee Jones

She speaks softly, not unlike the way she sings --soft, soulful passages, almost like secrets to the closest of friends --punctuated by bursts of exaltation. It's much like the span of emotion in her work, and in her new record, Balm in Gilead, which veers from the pure, naked heartbreak of "Bonfires" to the elation of "Old Enough," to the beautiful "Wild Girl," which celebrates the 21st birthday of her daughter, while simultaneously reflecting on the unchained fervor of her own wild days.

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Legends: Robert Earl Keen

As singer/songwriters go, Robert Earl Keen doesn't seem like the kind of artist who could honestly be accused of sloth. But despite a catalog choked with characters and conversations pulled from a colorful life, he makes that very claim on "Something That I Do," a track where he brags of his ability to not let work get in the way of an otherwise pleasant afternoon.

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Townes Van Zandt: Facets, Faults & Fractures

It's 10 o'clock at night on an abandoned Music Row. The year is 1985. In a third-floor office in an old house that serves as the offices for the Oak Ridge Boys' Silverline/Goldline Music Publishing, Steve Earle brings the chair he's leaning back in down hard, flipping his hair out of his eyes for emphasis.