Charlie Craig

Charlie Craig was born and raised in Watts Mill, South Carolina, a cotton mill village two miles from the city square in Laurens, South Carolina. He performed on a Saturday morning live radio show at age 15 in Laurens singing as a duet with a high school friend.



Charlie began working clubs, high school auditoriums and theaters after graduating from high school. In 1968 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee and began a 40 year songwriting career that is still ongoing today.



Charlie says in his book, "Looking back on my life in this dazzling world of country music, I sometimes wonder if I am somebody else and not that kid from Watts Mill, South Carolina that used to sit up on an iron rail across from the cotton mill and daydream about the life I have been living in this business of country music for more than forty years. How could I possibly have known that the Sears & Roebuck Silvertone guitar I got when I was about fourteen years old would lay the musical path to Nashville, Tennessee and pair me up with the likes of Alan Jackson, Travis Tritt, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash and a lot of other great stars. It still amazes me how this all happened. I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I didn't know anybody important. I didn't even have a rabbit's foot. So why me? I don't honestly know. I do believe that God gave me a gift and something inspired me to take that gift and make it my craft."



Some of Charlie Craigs more than 300 recorded credits as a songwriter are listed below.



Wanted - Alan Jackson

Bring on the Night - Alan Jackson

Tropical Depression - Alan Jackson

All American Country Boy - Alan Jackson

What a Day Yesterday Was - Alan Jackson

She's Single Again - Janie Fricke, Reba McIntyre

Between an Old Memory and Me - Travis Tritt, Keith Whitley

Lay a Little Lovin' on Me - B.J. Thomas, Wayne Newton, Del Reeves &

Bill Medley

I Would Like to See You Again - Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers,

Don Williams & Del Reeves

Miss Mis Behavin' - Aaron Tippin

She's Got a Way - Aaron Tippin

Every Time it Rains - George Strait

Let's Get Over Them Together - Mo Bandy & Becky Hobbs

Following the Feeling - Mo Bandy & Judy Bailey

Chicken Every Sunday - Dolly Parton

Rainy Days and Stormy Nights - Billie Jo Spears

Leavin's Been a Long Time Coming - Shenandoah

The Generation Gap - Jeannie C. Riley

Ill Take The Memories- Lorrie Morgan, Tanya Tucker

Waking Up With You - Waylon Jennings

Love Is Alive - Mark Wills

I Think Im In Love - Keith Stegall, Conway Twitty & Ed Bruce

Your Memory Finds A Way - Moe Bandy

Nickel Bar Candy - Kitty Wells

Every Step Of The Way - Kitty Wells



Other credentials include:



Grammy Nomination - The Generation Gap

Nominated Song of the Year - Wanted

Nominated Song of the Year - She's Single Again

Wrote One Foot Dragging - used on the television show "Northern Exposure" -performed by the Coasters

Had five songs on the soundtrack of Robert Duval's Academy Award winning movie, "Tender Mercies."



Inducted into South Carolina Entertainment Hall of Fame in 1998

Produced Nashville Super Pickers - they released two singles from this album.

Produced two developmental acts for Warner Brothers Records.



Worked in A&R for Giant Records.

Worked in A&R and Promotion with Gusto records.

Worked with several special acts in the beginning of their careers - acts that went on to become super stars; Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, and the Wilkinsons.

Charlie was directly responsible for the signing of Tracy Hagen and The Wilkinsons to their record deals.



Charlie Craig has recorded a Cd with himself performing 12 hits he has written for some of Nashville and country musics biggest stars.

Charlie currently has a new CD being released on Gusto Records in 2008 entitiled, The Hitmaker.



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