About Chuck McCabe

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In groups, and as a solo performer, Chuck McCabe has played in Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Saloon, Nashville's Bluebird Cafe, L.A.'s Troubador and Ice House, toured Viet Nam, Thailand, Japan and the Philippines for the USO.

In 20 years on the road, he played more summers on Cape Cod, winters in Vail, Steamboat Springs, and Bear Valley than he can remember... more coffee houses, ginmills, Holiday Inns and Ramadas than he'd care to admit.

An award-winning songwriter (American Song Festival, Music City Songfest, Sisters Folk Fest , Napa Valley Music Festival, Tucson Folk Festival, Wildflower Festival, and the Woody Guthrie Songwriting Competition), he has to his credit numerous independent releases (he will soon release his third self-produced CD on the BlahBlahWoofWoof label).

He has also recorded his songs on the ABC, Capitol and GRT labels in L.A. and Nashville, and was a staff writer for ABC. He wrote the Pet Rock song with the Rock's inventor, and was supposed to get rich... all he got was a big phone bill.

His first book was published in 1993, and sold not only to musicians and songwriters, but to countless colleges and county libraries across the country, following a buy-recommendation by the American Library Association.

He performs some 100 shows a year at rest homes, convalescent hospitals and senior living facilities for the non-profit Young at Heart Project, featuring vintage American music from the 1930's and 40's.

In addition to his work as a solo performer, he currently plays bass in an Irish group, lead guitar in an oldies band, and 5-string banjo with some folkies. He is working on a second book, and runs a popular workshop for the West Coast Songwriters organization.

Despite numerous close-calls, he has managed to elude both fame and fortune.

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• San Francisco: Drinking Gourd, Purple Onion, Coffee and Confusion
• Ice House, Pasadena and Glendale
• Golden Horseshoe Saloon, Disneyland
• Colorado: Vail Village Inn, Steamboat Village Inn, The Nu Gnu, Inn at Copper Mtn., Denver Folklore Center
• The Buddhi, Oklahoma City
• USO Tours: Viet Nam, Thailand, Japan, the Philippines, Okinawa, Guam, Hawaii
• Sid's Blue Beet, Newport Beach, CA
• Penny University, San Bernardino
• McCabe's, Santa Monica
• Bear Valley, CA: Altitude 38, The Lodge
• Cape Cod: The Woodshed, Lincoln Lodge, Improper Bostonian, the Oar and Anchor,
• the Hose and Hammer, the Chuckwagon, the Windjammer
• 1984 Olympics (UCLA gymnastics venue)
• Freight and Salvage, Berkeley
• Strings, Berkeley
• Coffee Gallery Backstage, Altadena, CA
• The Bluebird Cafe, Nashville
• Cocoanut Grove, Santa Cruz

• Sisters Folk Festival, Sisters, OR
• Mosquito Serenade concert series, Anderson, CA
• Mountain Garlic Festival, Angels Camp, CA
• Music in the Vineyard, Morgan Hill, CA
• Napa Valley Wine and Arts Festival
• Shasta County Arts Council Concert Series
• Shasta Damboree
• Shasta Lake City Celebration
• Lupin Songwriters' Festival
• Sierra Songwriters' Festival
• NARAS "Unsigned-Unplugged" competition
• Founders Title Folk and Bluegrass Festival, Salt Lake City
• Tucson Folk Festival
• The Wildflower Festival, Dallas
• Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, Okemah OK

• Staff Writer, ABC Records
• Works-in-Progress Songwriting Workshop, Northern Calif. Songwriters' Ass'n... 15 yrs
• Songwriting class instructor, Showcase Music Institute, San Jose CA
• Americana Project Song Academy instructor, Sisters, OR
• Fingerpicking Workshop, "Story Songs and Funny Songs" Workshop
• Sisters Folk Festival, Sisters, OR
• Host and MC, Night Owl Stage Sisters Folk Festival
• Host and MC, side stage, Music in the Vineyard Morgan Hill, CA
• 80-100 shows a year for the Young at Heart Project (music for seniors, convalescent hospitals and assisted-living venues)

• first place: Woody Guthrie Songwriting Competition 2001
• winner: Sisters Folk Festival Songwriting Competition 1998
• People's Choice Award, Boston Folk Festival (audience favorite by ballot)
• Just Plain Folks nomination: "Burgers and Champagne" best traditional folk song
• and numerous finalist, semi-final, or honorable-mention awards from:
• Northern Calif. Songwriters' Association
• American Song Festival
• USA Songwriting Contest
• Music City Songfest
• John Lennon Songwriting Contest

• 1967 single: "Tule Fog" Slippery Rock String Band, Dome Records
• 1968 album: "Six Penny Opera" Six Penny Opera, Capitol Records
• 1968 single: "You Took the Time", Metronome Records
• 1969 album: "Phoenix", ABC Records
• 1969 single: "Baby, I'm Sorry" Phoenix, ABC Records
• 1972 album: "Live at the Woodshed" (Cape Cod) Woodshed Records
• 1976 album: "Pensacola Flash" Woodshed Records
• 1976 single: "Travellin' Fever" Woodshed Records
• 1977 single: "That Old Pet Rock of Mine" GRT Records
• 1993 album: "Home" Hard Travelin', Gypsy Wind Productions
• 1996 album: "Making Tracks" Hard Travelin', Gypsy Wind Productions
• 1998 album: "Burgers and Champagne" BlahBlahWoofWoof Records
• 1998: BlahBlahWoofWoof sampler #1
• 1999 album: "The World Needs a Melody" Hard Travelin', Gypsy Wind Productions
• 2000 track: "I Like Your Skin" Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes #8 compilation
• 2001 BlahBlahWoofWoof sampler #2
• 2002 album: "Bad Gravity Day" BlahBlahWoofWoof Records
• 2002 BlahBlahWoofWoof Sampler #3 (2 tracks)
• 2003 album: "Blues Coffee House Collection Vol. I" IMS Records
• 2004 two cuts: Seamus Kennedy's album "On the Rocks" Gransha Records
• 2004 album: "Chicken Dinners" BlahBlahWoofWoof Records
• 2006 album: "Sweet Reunion" BlahBlahWoofWoof Records