Carol Chase
I have corresponded back and forth with her via Email and will say she is a very sweet and down to earth lady. Her new CD Blue Highway is definitely a must have.
Carol Chase Interview for DownSouthJukin.com
Hi Bruce,
Your site looks really good. I like all those pics you have of me. Not from and ego standpoint, but for the fact that I've been trying to find some for my site and the ones on it are the only ones I can find. You must have spent a lot of hours on yours as it's really comprehensive. I'm getting ready for a rehearsal so I have to get going. Keep up the good work and thanks for plugging my c.d. Bye.. Carol Chase
Carol's Bio (from her website, www.carolchase.com)
Carol was born and raised on the western plains of the
Dakotas, in a small town of 1800 people. From an early age, her mother had her
and her sisters singing three part harmony for special music programs that the
local 'music club' would put on. Throughout her school years she was always
involved in the school's music programs, from singing in the choir and small
ensembles to playing oboe in the band. When she attended the University of North
Dakota, she auditioned for the prestigious University Chorus and earned a spot
in the first soprano section, although she was offered her choice of the alto
part too. She told the director that she liked to sing 'lead' and so it was!
It was in college that Carol joined a local band that played around the area and
at school events. She also led a cheering crowd at the stadium on Saturday
afternoons, as a college football cheerleader. During her college years she was
voted Miss Engineer by the engineering college and her rendition of "Since I
Fell For You", in the talent portion of the event, made big campus news.
It wasn't hard to see that Carol had her eyes and heart set on a career in music
and when she and her college sweetheart married, they, along with their infant
daughter, decided to move out West where she could really pursue her dream.
She was living in Reno and singing in Lake Tahoe when an L.A. producer heard her
and urged her to move to L.A, and see what she could do. She did just that and a
year later she was the lead singer with a rock band on the Tomorrowland stage in
Disneyland. She had won the spot over 50 other hopefuls. After a year and a
half, she decided it was time to move up to the big city, L.A. itself, and was
soon approached to be the first artist on Casablanca West records. She had a top
ten record with her first release but with the second one, the label folded
following the untimely death of mentor, Neil Bogart. Carol was to do one more
album on a newly formed label, but that label was also short-lived.
Carol was now a single mom, raising a young daughter in L.A. She started writing
songs and one of her first attempts, "WE BELONG TOGETHER", produced a #1 song
for Susie Allanson, on the country charts. This event introduced her to the
song-writing community and she was off and running. She later moved to
Nashville, where she still resides, and became a sought after demo singer and
back-up singer on major artists records. Her song-writing produced cuts by Pam
Tillis, "DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR MAN IS TONIGHT?"; Ronnie Milsap, "CIVIL WAR";
Martina McBride, "TRUE BLUE FOOL": Rickey Van Shelton, "BABY TAKE A PICTURE";
and others. (See discography).
In the spring of 1996, while she and a co-writer were song-writing in Nashville,
she got a call from her friend Rickey Medlocke, who informed her that he was
back in Lynyrd Skynyrd and that there was an opening for a back-up singer. Two
days later she arrived in Ft. Meyers, Fl. to audition for the band and was hired
to start touring with them in two weeks.
She has been with the band ever since, touring and recording with them. In early
2004, on her time off, she recorded her own solo c.d.. entitled 'BLUE HIGHWAY'.
She sells it off her web-site and on the internet sites, cdbaby.com and
cdstreet.com. The L.S. band continues on as the classic Southern rock band of
all times, playing for capacity crowds.
Carol has always loved all kinds of music and can sing all kinds, as long as it
has 'soul'. While riding down the road on the tour bus with L.S. member Billy
Powell, he was surprised to hear her mimic an opera singer on a commercial.
Carol smiled and said, 'Oh, I can do that'!
When not on tour, Carol likes to play golf, snow ski, read, knit, exercise,
oil-paint, and hang out with her friends and her daughter. There's never a dull
moment and never a moment to waste.
(Background vocals on following recording
projects:)
LYNYRD SKYNYRD
“Live D.V.D. & C.D.” ( recorded live in Nashville,Tn.
released in (2003 & 2004)
LYNYRD SKYNYRD
“Vicious Cycle” (2003)
VAN ZANT
“Van Zant II” (2001)
LORRIE MORGAN & SAMMY KERSHAW
“Finally Found Someone” (2001)
DAVID LEE MURPHY
“Dancin’ With Thunder” (Hangin’ On) (2001)
LYNYRD SKYNYRD
“Christmas Time Again” (2000)
LYNYRD SKYNYRD
“Then and Now” (2000)
DOTTIE WEST
“Just Dottie Again” (2000) re-release
LYNYRD SKYNYRD
“Edge of Forever” (1999)
RANDY TRAVIS
“Man Ain’t Made of Stone”
LAIDLAW
“First Big Picnic” (1999)
GRADY NATIONS
“Grown Man Cry” (1999)
LYNYRD SKYNYRD
“Lyve From Steeltown” (1998)
BULL RIDERS: CHASIN’ THE DREAM
“Original Soundtrack” (1998)
LYNYRD SKYNYRD
“Twenty” (1997)
HOLLY DUNN
“Leave One Bridge Standing” (1997)
RONNIE MILSAP
“True Believer” (1996)
TIM MALCHAK
“Coast is Clear” (1996)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Red Blooded Blues” (1995)
DUANE EDDY
“Twangy Guitar” (1995)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Songs of the Common Tread” (1994)
BILLY DEAN
“Men’ll Be Boys” (1994)
LARRY STEWART
“Down the Road” (1993)
MARTINA MCBRIDE
“Time Has Come” (1992)
GEORGE JONES
“Walls Can Fall” (1992)
RANDY TRAVIS
“Greatest Hits, Vol.1” (1992)
RANDY TRAVIS
“Greatest Hits, Vol,2” (1992)
TANYA TUCKER
“Can’t Run From Yourself” (1992)
MOE BANDY
“Greatest Hits” (1992)
RONNA REEVES
“More I Learn” (1992)
GEORGE JONES
“Along Came Jones” (1991)
RANDY TRAVIS
“High Lonesome” (1991)
LEE GREENWOOD
“Perfect 10” (1991)
RONNIE MILSAP
“Greatest Hits, Vol 3” (1991)
RONNA REEVES
“Only the Heart” (1991)
STEVE WARINER
“I Am Ready” (1991)
ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL
“Keepin’ Me Up at Night” (1990)
ETTA JAMES
“Stickin’ to my Guns” (1990)
PINKARD AND BOWDEN
“Live in Front of a Bunch of..” (1990)
RANDY TRAVIS
“No Holdin’ Back” (1989)
RANDY TRAVIS
“Old-Time Christmas” (1989)
RAY STEVENS
“Crackin’ Up” (1989)
TANYA TUCKER
“Strong Enough to Bend” (1989)
CAROL’S SONGS RECORDED BY:
MARTINA MCBRIDE
“Time Has Come” CD (True Blue Fool)
RONNIE MILSAP
“True Believer” CD (Civil War)
PAM TILLIS
“Homeward Looking Angel” CD (Do You Know Where Your Man Is Tonight)
RICOCHET
“All Right” CD
RICKEY VAN SHELTON
“Baby Take a Picture”
GIBSON/MILLER BAND
“Red, White & Blue Collar” CD
AMAZING RYTHMN ACES
newly revised band.. w/Russell Smith
“Anger & Tears” “If I could call you Mine”
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