Paul Simon (and Garfunkle too), Lyle Lovett, Kevin Prosch, Dave Matthews, John Mayer
More recently, I've been listening to a lot of Matt Nathanson, Jack Johnson, and Jason Mraz. Mat Kearney, the Postal Service, Longview, Beck, Relient K, Sesharetnamma, the Streets, Alexi Murdoch, The Gipsy Kings, Sia, Marcos Witt,Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Paul Baloche, Brian Doerkson, Brian Wilson, The Beatles, Old Crow Medicine Show, Elton John, John Mellencamp, The Format, Carlos Vives, Juanes, Chris Tomlin, John Legend, Stephen Delopoulos, Citizen Cope, Phil Collins, Therese of Lisieux, Keane, Coldplay, Marc Cohn, 5 for Fighting, Joy Williams, Amos Lee, Daniel Powter, Death Cab for Cutie,Nickel Creek, Chesapeake, Matt Redman, Polly Paulusma, Bob Lyon, Indigo Girls, Counting Crows, U2, Flipsyde, David Wilcox, Anberlin, Toad, Rusted Root, Elton John, Peter Gabriel, The artist formerly known as Prince....or presently...who can keep up....wierd, but talented...Milli Vanilli (of course!),Carl Cartee,Jeremy Mitchell, Paul the Apostle, India Aire, Joashua Radin, Josh Rouse, Griffin House, Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, Jason Henderson, Mike Bickle, Terry Bennet, Kip and Kris Unruh, Kings of Convenience, Gabe Dixon, Dispatch, MuteMath, Matt Wertz, Hayley Westenra, Imogen Heap,Me'Shell Ndegocello, The Decemberists, Sting and the Police, , Blues Traveler, Phish, Arrested Development, Josh Kelley,Julieta Venegas, .....like the Replacements...I like a lot of people... Donovan Frankenreiter and Matt Costa. I seem to like a lot of musicians named Matt...Damian Rice. I like Iron and Wine (Can't listen to them very long, but I love them in short doses), Teiter, Dave Barnes, John, Virginia Coalition, Don Chaffer, The Khrusty Brothers, David Gray, Josh Rouse, The Weepies, Colin Haye, the Fray, PAGE FRANCE, Brett Dennen, Rosie Thomas. I don't know how many of these are influences, but that's who I like. I'd like to think my biggest influence is Jesus Christ, seeing how He's IT for me....that would translate into a pretty big influence if I'm paying any attention!
Sounds Like
When people break down and just HAVE to figure it out, here are the names that usually pop up:
John Mayer
Jack Johnson
Dave Matthews
Jason Mraz
David Wilcox
David Gray
Paul Simon
James Taylor
Barenaked Ladies
Rob Thomas
Rich Mullins
and, most everyone says Ethel Merman!!!! Ha! One Background singer I used told me I sounded like a cross between Cat Stevens and Nina Simone!!! How weird is that?!?!
No one has every told me I sound like Lyle Lovett yet, but I'm holding out hope!!! That has changed...someone told me that I did......yes!!!
Who knew a guitar on a mountaintop would be so useful? When Charlie Dodrill headed to Callao, Utah for two years of solitude, he took few possessions with him to the mountain cabin in the high desert between Utah and Nevada. While the situation might drive some inhabitants to distraction, it drove Charlie, who at the time knew five chords, to his guitar.
Soon he was “accidentally” writing songs flowing from the longings and desires built into all of us. When he began actually putting them down on paper, they might have looked a little strange to anyone with musical knowledge. With no guitar training, his early writing included such chords as “smiley face" and "Triangle (still does this, actually)." He noticed that when he sang, parts of his heart that were not open in thinking and speaking, would blossom when letting emotion flow through music.
Two years later as he was finishing his monastic experience in a rural corner of Missouri, he began sharing his music with others, at which time he learned that while his journey may have been unique, his songs were far more universal than he'd imagined. A friend coaxed him into a garage studio for an early recording session whose charmingly homemade quality did not deter the many friends who wanted to pass them along to others. Eventually he moved to Nashville and found himself playing in places like the Bluebird Café within a year of arriving. When a girl from Texas passed his CD’s along to the wife of producer, Steve Rosen, there began a conversation that became the first step in the creation of "Prologue to this Drama." The addition of gifted studio musicians like Dave Cleveland and Lisa Cochran and the mixing talents of Ben Fowler meant that this would be no ordinary first album. With lyrics which seek to discover the mortal life from the perspective of an immortal God, even in the midst of a broken world, the songs of "Prologue" have played equally well with "test audiences" in venues from colleges to churches to bars and on radio stations scattered through the U.S. and abroad.
He’s taken “Prologue” on tour throughout the U.S. and is currently finishing up his sophomore project, “Eyes of the Exception,” with the usual studio suspects, but adding Dan Needham on drums, Scott Dente and acoustics, and Scat Springs on BGV’s. It’s a fun ride of an album, crossing genres, but still possessing rare depth without taking itself too seriously.
A Magna Cum Laude graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan University, Charlie is a trained fine artist who graduated with a BA in painting and was a record breaking pole vaulter for four years. His fluent Spanish and work with street children led to a senior year spent in Montevideo, Uruguay and a post-graduate stint in Medallin, Colombia, the murder capital of the world. Since then he has traveled extensively throughout India and lived and worked in inner-city Kansas City and Jacksonville, FL. He currently lives in Nashville.
Charlie!! This morning I remembered I hadn't tried to request you on pandora for a while and then I did and YOU WERE THERE! I totally created a charlie gold station and am listening to it right now at work. So awesome. Yay!!
Hey Charlie, thanks so much for adding me to your list of Friends, it really means alot to me that you took the time to add me.I look forward to getting to know you better. Courtney
Well I did meet him once cause I was helping lead worship at a small bilingual church with my friend(actually she led and I played piano since my spanish is little) He came and did a conference and we spoke with him. He was a very nice man and his concert was fun. Dancing the salsa while praising in church is fun and interesting!!! Blessings...I do know the Dupres very well though and know you are friends with them...it's a small world after all!!!
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