Chuck Courtenay was born in Savannah, Georgia. He spent his early childhood years living on a cattle ranch in Lake Wales, Florida. This is where Courtenay first learned of Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Conway Twitty and Vern Gosdin, and these would be the influences that inspired him to follow in their footsteps.
Courtenay grew up watching his father, a traveling musician, perform all over the country. “Some of my best memories were when I would visit my dad over summer vacations and going to his gigs. I would get up and sing Elvis Presley songs.” This is where learning to be a performer started for Courtenay.
After graduating high school, he took an interest in playing guitar and it soon led him to playing for friends and family and then eventually to playing clubs and restaurants in Savannah, Georgia. In 1998, Courtenay won the Jimmy Dean True Value Country Showdown and that was when he decided that music was his calling.
Soon after, Courtenay and his brother Jason formed the duo, The Courtenay Brothers.
They were voted Savannah’s Best Country Act for 3 consecutive years. This opened the doors for the Courtenay Brothers, allowing them opportunities to open for big named artists, such as Mark Chesnutt, Chely Wright, Craig Morgan, Joe Nichols, Blake Shelton and Lee Greenwood, as well as playing on the USO tours.
Most recently, with the help of his band mate and co-producer, Tommy Butler, Courtenay began work on his debut album and signed with Platinum Road Records out of Nashville, Tennessee. This album exhibits his unique, soulful, true southern country vocals. With tracks like, “Sunday That Didn’t Have A Prayer” and “Laughing All The Way To The Bank”, Courtenay is sure to be scaling up the country music charts in no time.
