Nashville, Tennessee

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BIOGRAPHY

This prolific songwriter has released seven albums, which have won him a host of awards and nominations Over 30 artists have recorded his songs, including Jimmy Buffett, who recently invited Gallant to perform it onstage with him. His songs have also appeared in feature films, television series’, and in numerous theatrical productions.

LEVEL

professional

Contact

Management: Wendy Gilmour - wendy@lenniegallant.com

P.R.O.

ASCAP

INSTRUMENTS

acoustic guitar / harmonica / vocals

DAY JOB

Songwriter/Performer

I AM INTERESTED IN

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:
by myself
with others
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics

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AWARDS & ACCOLADES

3 JUNO nominations (Equivalent to US Grammy). 13 East Coast Music Awards (record number for a solo artist). Received the Order of Canada - highest honor awarded to a civilian - other artists that have been inducted are Neil Young, Sarah McLachlan and Leonard Cohen. Songwriters Association of Canada - Board Member since 2002

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,