Welcome to Guy Gilchrist's Cartoonist's Academy

Only Guy's longtime friends and family know how deep Guy's musical roots are. He's been playing guitar, writing and singing since High School. The singing and writing came first.

Now that a long almost twenty year break from the Honky Tonks and stages has ended, and Guy has begun playing out with his bandmates, Chris Sheehan and Michael Ledrich, Guy's original songs have begun to be heard and noticed among the long sets of cover songs that the band performs.

Guy is presently working with some of the greatest songwriters, musicians, and producers in Nashville to cut his first full album of originals, as well as a batch of "demos" to hopefully be recorded by other talented artists. As you probably DO know, Guy has always written. 48 books over the years, most of them in rhyme, as well as his poetic newspaper features, Night Lights, and Your Angels Speak. Many of these poems are pieces of larger works transformed now into songs.

My buddy from the band Montgomery Gentry, and formerly Ricochet, named Eddie Kilgallon set up the sessions at an awesome studio in Nashville called County Q.

EVERYBODY has recorded there....Rascal Flatts, Mongomery Gentry, Oh...I'm not even going to start...so many famous people have recorded number one records there. I can sure see why after spending a week there. The vibe there is just awesome. So homey, so friendly, so warm. Real PROS. We were going to try the impossible....cut 5 singles in 3 hours with the band...then get all the vocal tracks down for all five songs done the same day! Usually...it takes weeks to do what we were going to try. But, I did a lot of practicing and working out arrangements prior to the sessions...sent all my songs in recorded form to Eddie a few weeks prior...and he charted, arranged, and set up and thought out each song so thoroughly that when the other musicians came in....everyone knew exactly what they were going to do!

I also had the chance to write with Jason Grainger and Mila Mason. We wrote two songs on Tuesday! Can't wait for you to hear those , too! What an amazing, amazing week. Much more to come!

One weekend in May, our academy "break room" and "computer classroom" was transformed into a Recording Studio. Here are some pictures from that day. Lou Camporeale is the musical whiz at the computer, using his processor to record the rough guitar and vocal tracks that will be used as an outline for the Nashville recording sessions coming up in June. Bandmate Chris Sheehan, man of many instruments, plays electric and acoustic guitars, as well as slide and a lapsteel. The rhythm guitar you hear on the "scratch tracks" is Guy banging away. There's a picture here with Buddy as well. Buddy is our Head of Security at the studio. He gets paid in frozen hotdogs.