Chip Greene

Raised on the southern outskirts of Nashville, Chip Greene grew up with a very different kind of Music City looming in the distance. The construction cranes and high-rise condos— now a ubiquitous part of Nashville's ever-growing skyline — wouldn't pierce the horizon for another decade or more, and creative-minded people were still in charge. It was there, in a city fueled by art and filled with starry-eyed musicians, that Greene launched his career as a piano-pounding songwriter, reshaping the influences of his childhood — including Billy Joel, Charlie Rich, U2, and Bruce Springsteen — into his own brand of smoky, salt-of-the-earth rock & roll. In My Town is a love letter to the artistic struggle, set against a backdrop of a city that, like Greene himself, has changed over the years. Greene's emotionally candid songs have charted in CMJ and been featured on Sirius XM and in projects by MTV, Sprite Delta Airlines and Eddie Bauer.