Chris Brown

Chris’s musical career was first recognized at the age of about five.  He would spend endless hours jumping up and down on his bed while singing every word to the songs “Funky Town” and “Rapture” from his favorite vinyl 45’s.  After the Fisher Price record player broke, he started picking up instruments…pretty much anything he could beat on that would make a noise, or anything he saw his uncle Danny playing.  By the time he finished middle school, saxophone became the instrument of choice.  He became Texas All-State saxophonist by his senior year and then it was off to University of North Texas, where he majored in music education.  At UNT, he studied under James Riggs and Eric Nestler.  Upon graduation, he left Dallas for Los Angeles, the city where all musicians and actors feel they need to go.  Playing saxophone in Capital Pusher, an all-original funk band, Chris met the other Chris, from Ohio, and the country inspiration set in.  They would fill in the gaps of this six year funk project with cowboy songs they remember always being a part of their Southern/Midwestern lives.  Eventually country consumed the boys and out came the Merchants of Moonshine.