Chad Harvey:  

Life “I am writing and performing the stories of my life - some truth, some lies, but all real American music.” -Chad Harvey Every once in a while a singer-songwriter comes along that moves people to action – not necessarily a message to politicians for peace in wartime but instead a holler to the wallflowers to grab a cold beer and cut the rug at the local honky-tonk, sometimes a call to an estranged lover to come home - Chad Harvey is a songwriter whose songs do all of these things and more. Chad Harvey is a true American original born in Evansville, and raised in nearby Lynnville - that’s Southern Indiana to the uninformed, just down the highway from Indiana’s most famous musical export, John Mellencamp, an artist to whom Harvey is often compared. However, Chad Harvey is far from a knock-off, Harvey delivers his self-penned emotive country-rock songs with an inimitable whiskey-stained voice. Chad is equipped with rough and tumble good looks reminiscent of a young Elvis Presley and a cool swagger that calls to mind another Hoosier native named James Dean. Harvey’s not one of these fly-by-night, pin-up ‘hat acts,’ he is a gifted singer/songwriter armed with a six-string Gibson and a Midwestern drawl who says what he means and means what he says with his songs. Chad Harvey’s songs such as ‘Driftin,’ ‘What Would You Say,’ and ‘Run’ possess infectious melodies, scorching licks, backed by a driving 4/4 beat. Harvey’s tunes are most at home blaring out of pick-up truck transistor radios driving the back roads of Southern Indiana where he grew up. With aspirations greater than what Indiana had to offer, Chad fled to Nashville, Tennessee where he enrolled at Belmont University to “learn about the record business;” however, Chad found himself learning more about the music business by meeting people, listening to classic records, and watching bands perform live in local clubs. On one cold winter night, a pivo...Expand for more