Chris Gardner Drops New 14 Song Compilation “Second Helpings” Plus His Brand New Video “Hangin’ On The Line”
After 26 straight weeks on the charts at Roots Music Reports Chris Gardner entered into the studio and came away with another great release “Second Helpings”. The fourteen song compilation is jam packed with pure Americana including Chris’s fan favorite “Real American Hero”. The story of a man that keeps hanging in there through all of life’s trials because he is who he is, a real American hero. Also on the album is another fan favorite “Hangin’ On The Line” which Chris also released as an imaginative story telling video now featured on You Tube. Chris also teamed with two top singer/songwriters in their own right, Bert Wills on “A Girl Like That” and with Evelyn Rubio on “Miracles”. Altogether fourteen great tracks and not a clunker among them. About Chris - Chris Gardner hails from Buffalo New York and moved to Houston years ago and now calls Texas home. To date Chris has written and recorded four national top twenty songs, two which reached number one, cracked the Billboard Hot 200 coming in 152, and in 2019 Chris’s album “Hangin’ On The Line” was on multiple charts for weeks and even peaked at the coveted number one spot on Roots Music Reports. Writer for Houston CityBook Magazine pens about Chris, “A hockey-playing high-tech locksmith by day, Chris Gardner has the keys to the Americana Charts”. “Second Helpings” was recorded at Wire Road Studios and co-produced by Chris and world famous mixing engineer Andy Bradley. Chris’s choice of studio musicians included composer/arranger Paul English on piano, Wayne Turner (Hank Williams Jr for 27 years) on guitar, Bert Wills (legendary Texas country harmonica man) on harp, Rankin Peters, Mark Andes (Firefall, Spirit, and Canned Heat) on bass, the late great Kenny Cordray on guitar, Tyson Sheth on drums, on peddle steel and banjo Brian Thomas, and on fiddle Hillary Sloan. To learn more - www.chrisgardnermusic.com No animals were harmed while recording “Second Helpings” September 2020 • Rock and Blues International
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