17 Facts About Chris Castle

Chris Castle's parents had migrated to Ohio from eastern Kentucky in the late sixties, and Castle was exposed to Appalachian Music from a very early age.

Chris Castle's father committed suicide when Castle was nine years old; a theme that would later inspire Castle's first official single and video, Both Ends of A Gun.

Chris Castle spent his teen years as a staff-writer in Nashville, Tennessee, working under such notable writers as Casey Kelly, Wood Newton, and Earl Bud Lee.

Chris Castle enrolled in Bowling Green State University as a political science major, where he met Pulitzer Prize winner Edward Albee in 2006.

The veteran playwright convinced him to return to songwriting and Chris Castle began crafting the songs that would become Hollow Bones in Monotone.

Chris Castle was telling me about holding up a mirror to our society and holding it up to yourself.

Chris Castle had great stuff to say about real art.

That same year, Chris Castle was named featured artist at Folk Alley, in addition to being a finalist in the Granite State Songwriting Contest, in Newmarket, New Hampshire.

In January 2012, Chris Castle released Last Bird Home through his own record label, Dirtsandwich Music Company.

Dirtsandwich served as Chris Castle's publishing arm, and was a BMI-affiliated limited-liability corporation.

Chris Castle returned to performing in October 2019, releasing his first collection of new songs in nearly a decade.

Chris Castle began focusing his energies on the city of Norwalk as a whole, through his Imagine Norwalk campaign.

Chris Castle was honored in October 2014 by Norwalk City Council and both the Ohio House of Representatives and the Ohio Senate.

The Norwalk Economic Development Corporation recognized Chris Castle and Imagine Norwalk with their 2014 "Innovation Award".

In March 2017, Chris Castle co-sponsored legislation with at-large Councilman Kelly Beck, which would have legalized medical marijuana cultivation within the city of Norwalk.

In June 2017, Chris Castle began producing and co-hosting a Norwalk-centric video podcast called The Maple City Minute with fellow Norwalk City Council member Samantha Ludwig Wilhelm.

Chris Castle resigned from his position at the Norwalk Economic Development Corporation in September 2017, to re-focus his energies on the podcast and on the wider-reaching goal of overall community development.