Article Contributed by Devious Planet | Published on Tuesday, January 19, 2021
A diverse mix of American roots music, out-of-the-box pop flourishes, gospel harmonies, and barroom rock & roll,
The Comet spotlights a songwriter whose left-of-center music redraws the lines between genre and generations.
It s a collection of songs whose paradoxical twists and turns are as unique as the man who wrote them. Raised on a farm in New England, Charlie grew up listening to the music that suited his working-class surroundings Delta blues, country classics, work songs, and Bob Dylan records before traveling the country as a busker, accompanied by his acoustic guitar and 1988 Oldsmoble Cutlass. After a Kerouac-worthy series of milestones and mishaps led him back to the Northeast, he established himself as one of the region s folksinging heavyweights before heading south to Nashville, where he found a new home in a city that had become synonymous with Americana music. Charlie easi
A diverse mix of American roots music, out-of-the-box pop flourishes, gospel harmonies, and barroom rock & roll, Charlie Treat s The Comet spotlights a songwriter whose left-of-center music redraws the lines between genre and generations.
It s a collection of songs whose paradoxical twists and turns are as unique as the man who wrote them. Raised on a farm in New England, Charlie grew up listening to the music that suited his working-class surroundings - Delta blues, country classics, work songs, and Bob Dylan records - before traveling the country as a busker, accompanied by his acoustic guitar and 1988 Oldsmoble Cutlass. After a Kerouac-worthy series of milestones and mishaps led him back to the Northeast, he established himself as one of the region s folksinging heavyweights before heading south to Nashville, where he found a new home in a city that had become synonymous with Americana music. Charlie easily fit into that musical community, even as his own songs ventured into the