Marshall Chapman - Me, I'm Feelin' Free (1977)

Marshall Chapman is an American singer-songwriter. To date she has released thirteen critically acclaimed albums, including her most recent, BLAZE OF GLORY (released May 28, 2013), which is being hailed a masterpiece.

Her songs have been recorded by everyone from Emmylou Harris and Joe Cocker to Irma Thomas and Jimmy Buffett.

In 2010, Chapman landed her first movie role, playing Gwyneth Paltrow's road manager in COUNTRY STRONG. While filming the movie, her musical GOOD Ol' GIRLS (adapted from the fiction of Lee Smith and Jill McCorkle, featuring songs by Matraca Berg and Marshall) opened Off-Broadway. That fall, Chapman simultaneously released a new book (THEY CAME TO NASHVILLE) and new CD (BIG LONESOME). THEY CAME TO NASHVILLE was nominated for the 2011 SIBA Book Award for Nonfiction, and the Philadelphia Inquirer named BIG LONESOME "Best Country/Roots Album of 2010."

Of her three rockin' albums for Epic, the Al Kooper-produced JADED V*IRGIN was voted Record of the Year (1978) by Stereo Review. Her album, IT'S ABOUT TIME... (Island, 1995), recorded live at the Tennessee State Prison for Women, drew rave reviews from Time, USA Today, and the Village Voice.

Marshall's first book, GOODBYE, LITTLE ROCK AND ROLLER (St. Martin's Press) was a SIBA bestseller, 2004 SIBA Book Award finalist, and one of three finalists for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. A softcover edition was released in 2004.

Marshall is a contributing editor to Garden & Gun and Nashville Arts Magazine. She has also written for the Oxford American, Southern Living, W, and the Bob Edwards Show (Sirius/XM). But music, she says, "Is my first and last love."