Presenting Featured Artist: C.W. Colt Performing His Original Song "Flying"

“FLYING” by C.W. COLT

C.W. Colt wrote “Flying” at 4 am while sitting on a mountainside in Colorado. “I was dreaming about what real love should be like. Finding that one person and soaring through a life of love & happiness.”

C.W.’s been dreaming, writing, singing, playing guitar and majorly pleasing the crowds for a great many years.  In fact, he’ll be celebrating ‘Sixty Musical Years’, September 13th, 14th & 15th at the Hog’s Breath.

In 1958, at the age of 5, C.W. won his first talent contest with his Elvis impression, singing and dancing. When he was 10 years old Chet Atkins taught him his first guitar chords and he started his own band in San Antonio Texas. C.W. met Webb Pierce, Ernest Tubbs and Ray Price during this time and began performing for basic trainees on Lackland Air Force Base.

At 12 years of age C.W. was entertaining troops in the Philippines, Thailand and Okinawa. After moving to Colorado at 16, C.W. mastered the banjo and fiddle, while playing on a mountain. He started the band named Free Lunch that included World Class slide guitarist, Sonny Landreth.

At 25 C.W. recorded “America The Beautiful” at Marty Robbins’ studio in Nashville and put together ‘The America the Beautiful” show. During this time, he performed with Hank Thompson, Buck Trent and Sons of the Pioneers.

Turning 30, C.W. was working with Jimmy Buffet, Alvin Lee, Bo Diddley and Edgar Winters. He worked with Rita Coolidge, Bill Champlin, and Ronnie Hawkins’s in Jim Carrey’s first movie Copper mountain in Colorado . Later that year he recorded “The Cowboys Lullaby” with Patsy Montana and toured with her for 2 years.

In Santa Rosa California, at the age of 35, C.W. had the pleasure of performing shows with Chet Atkins, Waylon Jennings, Jon Conley, Roy Clark, Doug Kershaw and worked for Narada Michael Walden.

Relocating to Key West Florida, C.W. began compiling 40 years of his original songs and recording the Legends and Treasures series, his personal collection of music.

Join C.W. Sept. 13th through Sept. 16th as he celebrates Sixty Musical Years!  Events calendar at: www.cwcolt.com