Chet Nichols - I Was Dreaming (2014)

Chet Nichols is an award-winning creative director, songwriter, composer, music producer, engineer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, film producer, animation producer, creative artist, designer, photographer, novelist, poet, TV and feature film actor and stage performer. Chet is also an accomplished Interactive Creative Director, Producer, Creative Content Specialist and Creative Media Artist.

Chet was just recently inducted into The Kansas Music Hall Of Fame. He joins artists like Pat Matheny, Melissa Ethridge, Martina McBride, Brewer & Shipley, Mike Finnegan and many other accomplished performers. He was also recently added to The Chicago Actor’s A-List of Chicago-born entertainers. He was also awarded an honorary PHD in “Rock ’n’ Roll”.

He has produced 16 CDs over his life of original material. He has produced music that has been used in films, television and radio. His novel, “The Last Riders On Route 66”, is currently in development to become a feature film. His movie script, “The Ghosts Of Santa Barbara” is also currently in development to become a feature film. His newest novel, “The Judas Tree”, will soon be available for
purchase.

Chet has just released a new singer-songwriter CD, “Walking In Circles”. It is filled with unique stories and is a blend of folk, rock, jazz and world music. The title tune, “Walking In Circles”, won the Broadjam Lyric Writing Contest. Chet has just released a new World/Fusion/New Age instrumental CD entitled, “Peak To Peak” . He is production on and a new singer-songwriter folk-based CD, “Tunesmith”, a Rock & Roll CD, “Earth School” and a new instrumental CD, “Sailing The Seven Dreams”.

Chet’s recent instrumental CDs, “Peak To Peak”, “Red Mesa Sunset” and “Earthways” are New Age Ambient/World Fusion fare and are filled with award-winning songs. “Red Mesa Sunset” was recently selected to be a Top Twelve CD by the music editors of eMusic.com for the month of February, 2007. “Earthways” was recently selected to be a Top Twelve CD by the music editors of eMusic.com for the month of March, 2007. “Serengeti Rain”, a song on “Red Mesa Sunset”, was awarded a Special Mention in the Music Aid International Songwriting Composition in December, 2006. “Serengeti Rain”, “Red Mesa Sunset” and “Prayer Bucket” have been #1 on numerous Internet New Age Song Charts. “Serengeti Rain” was recently a featured composition at The LA Museum of Contemporary Art’s Spring Event. Another song, “Beijing Dawn” was recently #1 on the American Idol Underground World Charts. “Beijing Dawn”, an instrumental composition from his recently CD release, “Peak To Peak”, was also awarded a Special Mention in the Music Aid International Songwriting Composition in December, 2007.

Chet’s Route-66-dedicated CD, “Modern Progress” is filled with award winning songs. The song, “The Last Riders On Route 66”, won the Grand Prize in the International Route 66 Theme Song Contest in 2003. It was lauded as “the best new song about Route 66 since Bobby Troupe’s ‘Get Your Kicks On Route 66’. The song, “The Mother Road”, won the Grand Prize in the International Route 66 Theme Song Contest in 2004 ands was lauded as “the new anthem for Route 66 restoration and preservation”.

Chet has numerous other songs that have won many other awards. He is the
Author of the classic blues songs “I Come From Chicago” and “I Am The Ice Cream Man”. John Fahey once called Chet “America’s best acoustic guitarist”. Chet is a living, breathing Renaissance man with a big heart, a love for planet Earth, a bottomless sense of humor and an amazing zest for the creative arts.