Cletis Carr

Quick Facts

Full Name	Cletis Carr
Occupation	Singer-Songwriter
Date Of Birth	Aug 4, 1959(1959-08-04)
Age	65
Birthplace	Portland
Country	United States
Birth City	Oregon
Horoscope	Leo

Cletis Carr Biography

Cletis Carr is one of the most popular and richest Singer-Songwriter who was born on August 4, 1959 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Carr is a member of a family of top-quality country music musicians such as the father Bob Carr who once toured with Ray Price’s Cherokee Cowboys. Uncles Joe Carr and Raleigh “Curly” Cletis Carr also played in the 1950s and the 1960s. In 1961, Carr’s close friend Tom Blair with his band the West Coasters had a Top 40 success by releasing Dollar Bills. The family of Carr would have regular reunions in which musical instruments were put up, and members of the family would perform.

After a solid year of traveling, including performances at the renowned Los Angeles venue, Whisky A Go-Go, the band were dissatisfied with their career direction and broke off from Kovacs. Kovacs as well as their record label. Carr quit the group in 1981, but returned the following year for two shows, and also to co-produce their next record, Music From The Sole (which is still unreleased).

Carr relocated to Melbourne and released two more solo albums, Tales of Ordinary Madness in 1991 and Wooden Nails in 1992 before joining country-rock band Big Whiskey. He wrote the bulk of their debut album which was released in 1994, then left the band to concentrate on his new project, the “Traveling Wilburys”-styled acoustic outfit Hillbilly Moon, formed with Wells and Top-40 recording artist Paul Norton. The trio were augmented by Norton’s wife, singer Wendy Stapleton and Wells’ writing partner DeSoto, as well as former Divinyls and Concrete Blonde bassist Tim Millikan. Their first album, Volume One was released in December 1994, debuting at Melbourne’s Continental Club to a sold- out house.

In 1999, Carr moved to Nashville and pursued his songwriting career, cowriting with many notable writers and performing regularly on the circuit at the Bluebird Café, Douglas Corner, the Broken Spoke and others. He again drifted behind the scenes, assisting his manager pals Greg Shaw (Keith Urban) and Gina Mendello (Tommy Emmanuel) as well as landing a job with a couple of New Media dotcoms. A mild heart attack slowed him down and he returned to Sydney in 2001, landing a stint at Liberation Music.

Working along with the promoters of local concerts Allen as well as Phillip Kovac who were moving to artist management, as well as the local professional Huck Coleman, the group started making their first album. The Kovacs hired ColGems the songwriter Roger Atkins, known for his hit songs in the band Animals as well as the Monkees as producer. A record deal was signed with the New York’s MMO Group, and Ear Cartoons was released in late 1980 to rave reviews including the Billboard Magazine Pick of the week.

Cletis Carr Net Worth

Cletis Carr is one of the richest Singer-Songwriter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Cletis Carr 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Cletis Carr (born on August 4 1959) is a guitarist, singer as well as a record producer. Carr was the founder of the Pacific Northwest 1970s new wave music group Sneakers before beginning an independent career in between founding various other bands, including Big Whiskey and Hillbilly Moon.

The group toured for a short time, but commitments later stopped their progress. Stapleton was performing in the well-known Dusty Springfield Show and Wells left for Europe with the newly reformed Rose Tattoo. Carr was back in Sydney and became an employee writer at Warner/Chappell Music and produced a number of music videos to promote ABC Music’s new talents series. He collaborated with rising country artists the Crosby Sisters along with Aussie legendary Russell Morris and produced a updated cover of Russell’s hit song from 1972 “Wings of an Eagle” which was named the Duo/Trio Of The year during the 1998 Australian Country Music Awards.

Carr moved to Australia in 1986 for an intended holiday with family there. Within days, he had a job at a local music store and had joined two bands. Playing with Lucy DeSoto and Rose Tattoo legend Peter Wells’s band, he was introduced to industry icon Sebastian Chase whose label was distributed by CBS (now Sony). He was offered a recording deal and in 1987 began work on his next album, Colourblind, which featured the playing of Wells and fellow Tatts guitarist Mick Cocks. After touring in support of that release, he joined Chris Turner’s Big Rock Band, a touring ensemble which featured members of AC/DC, The Saints and Jimmy Barnes.

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Cletis Ranked on the list of most popular Singer-Songwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Cletis Carr celebrates birthday on August 4 of every year.