Zan Cantwell
Acoustic / Folk Rock / Country
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Nashville, Tennessee
United States
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| Zan Cantwell: General Info
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| Member Since | 12/26/2006 | | Influences | Dylan & The Band, The Byrds, Neil Young, Townes Van Zandt, John Prine, Gram Parsons, and of course The Beatles and the Stones | | Sounds Like | See Above | | Record Label | unsigned | | Type of Label | Major |
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| About Zan Cantwell |
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I ran away from home when I was 16 back in 1968 and hitched hiked out to San Francisco from Harrisburg, PA and was part of the last hurrah in the Haight. 1970 I was at the Atlanta International Pop Fest for The Allman Bros debut. Later I hitched back up north to The Powdwr Ridge Festival which was a bust(literally for me). I jumped bail and headed back west and was at a Winterland Dead/Airplane show the night Janis died After things started getting too weird in Frisco I came back to PA and started my first Folk Rock band called Gravel Road, after that did the Bowie/T-Rex glam thing for awhile.
At the arrival of disco in the mid 70s I was already starting to gravitate back to my roots so I headed to Nashville but with no luck there, so I returned to PA and there got an offer to join a Power Pop band called The Weasels (see picture) which did well for a few years. After that I reunited with the guitar player from my first band and had a pre-Stray Cats RockaBilly band called The Rock-A-Dials.
With the advent of Punk Pop and New Wave I got disgusted with the Radio and enrolled in art school during which I returned to Folk Rock with a band called Common Ground that I managed to keep together for quite a few years in one form or another. The 90s saw The Hornets, Hired Guns and The Brambles. After disbanding The Innocents in 03 I decided to give up the band thing and return to Nashville to concentrate on writing. It's been a long strange trip but I wouldn't change nothin'
I left out a lot but that's the whirlwind tour
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