Chad Cromwell


Chad Cromwell is an American rock drummer whose music career has spanned more than 30 years. He is the founding member of a band called Fortunate Sons, which released a self-titled album in 2004.
Cromwell has worked with multiple prominent artists from various genres, including Neil Young, Mark Knopfler, Joe Walsh, Joss Stone, Bonnie Raitt, and Crosby, Stills, and Nash.

Early life

Cromwell was born on June 14, 1957, in Paducah, Kentucky. When he was three years old he moved with his parents and siblings to Memphis, Tennessee in 1960. In 1970, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and remained there for the rest of his childhood.
He started playing drums at the age of eight, wearing headphones as he played along to records in an upstairs room of his parents' home. By the age of twelve he was playing in garage bands in the local neighborhood.

Career

Cromwell started recording and touring with Joe Walsh in 1986, appearing on two albums, Got Any Gum? and Ordinary Average Guy.
In 1987, Cromwell began a collaboration with songwriter Neil Young. The initial sessions became Neil Young & The Bluenotes. Since then he has recorded and toured with Young on several occasions, and appears on albums such as Freedom, Prairie Wind ''Living with War and Chrome Dreams II. He has also appeared in Heart of Gold, a documentary capturing the debut of Neil Young's album, Prairie Wind. This was filmed at the Ryman auditorium and directed by Jonathan Demme.
Cromwell is also known for his contributions to Mark Knopfler's solo albums Golden Heart, Sailing to Philadelphia, The Ragpicker's Dream and Shangri-La. He was also part of Knopfler's band during the tours of his first solo albums.
Cromwell toured with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young in the summer of 2006.
He has also worked with many other artists including Dave Stewart, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Lady Antebellum, Diana Krall, Willie Nelson, Jackson Browne, Boz Scaggs, Wynonna, Trisha Yearwood, Miranda Lambert, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Frampton, Allison Moorer, Chris Knight, Joss Stone, Rodney Crowell, Marty Stuart, and Stevie Nicks.
In the mid-2000s, Cromwell formed the band Fortunate Sons along with Michael Rhodes, Gary Nicholson, Kenny Greenberg, and Reese Wynans. They released a self-titled album in 2004. He is also a member of the occasional touring band, Big Al Anderson and The Balls, led by former NRBQ guitarist Al Anderson.
In 2012, he appeared on The Beach Boys' studio album entitled That's Why God Made the Radio. In 2013, he was featured on Bonnie Tyler's album, Rocks and Honey''.
In 2014, he provided drums on Drake Bell's third studio album, Ready Steady Go!

Personal life

He lives in both Nashville and Los Angeles with his wife, Windy.

Collaborations

With Trace AdkinsLove Will...
With Gary AllanIt Would Be You Smoke Rings in the Dark Alright Guy See if I Care Tough All Over Living Hard Get Off on the Pain Set You Free
With Lady AntebellumLady Antebellum Need You Now Own the Night Golden
With Katie ArmigerBelieve Fall Into Me
With Sweet Pea AtkinsonGet What You Deserve
With Joan BaezPlay Me Backwards Gone from Danger
With The Beach BoysThat's Why God Made the Radio
With Drake BellReady Steady Go!
With Dierks BentleyGravel & Gold Broken Branches
With Matraca BergSunday Morning to Sunday Night
With Michael BoltonAll That Matters
With Joe BonamassaDust Bowl
With Danielle BradberyDanielle Bradbery
With Lee BriceI Don't Dance
With Kix BrooksNew to This Town
With Brooks & DunnCowboy Town
With Pieta BrownRemember the Sun Mercury Postcards
With Billy BurnetteRock & Roll With It
With Shawn CampFireball
With Mary Chapin CarpenterBetween Here and Gone
With Paul CarrackI Know That Name
With Jeff CarsonJeff Carson
With Beth Nielsen ChapmanUncovered
With Steven Curtis ChapmanSigns of Life
With Kenny ChesneyWhen the Sun Goes Down Be as You Are The Road and the Radio The Big Revival Cosmic Hallelujah Songs for the Saints Here and Now Born
With Terri ClarkClassic
With Mark CollieBook of My Blues
With John CowanJohn Cowan
With Crosby, Stills, Nash & YoungAmerican Dream
With Rodney CrowellThe Houston Kid The Outsider
With George DucasGeorge Ducas
With Ronnie DunnRonnie Dunn Re-Dunn
With Radney FosterSee What You Want to See
With Peter FramptonNow Fingerprints Thank You Mr. Churchill Hummingbird in a Box
With Vince GillNext Big Thing These Days Guitar Slinger
With William Lee GoldenAmerican Vagabond
With Amy GrantHouse of Love Behind the Eyes Legacy... Hymns and Faith Simple Things Rock of Ages... Hymns and Faith Somewhere Down the Road
With Emmylou Harris and Rodney CrowellOld Yellow Moon
With Emmylou Harris and Mark KnopflerAll the Roadrunning
With Rebecca Lynn HowardRebecca Lynn Howard
With Sonya IsaacsSonya Isaacs
With JewelPicking Up the Pieces
With Jamey JohnsonThe Dollar Living for a Song
With Toby KeithA Classic Christmas Big Dog Daddy Bullets in the Gun Clancy's Tavern Hope on the Rocks Drinks After Work 35 MPH Town Peso in My Pocket
With Charles KelleyThe Driver
With Mark KnopflerGolden Heart Sailing to Philadelphia The Ragpicker's Dream Shangri-La One Take Radio Sessions
With Alison KraussWindy City
With Miranda LambertKerosene Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Revolution
With Jim LauderdaleWhisper Patchwork River I'm a Song
With Cyndi LauperDetour
With Kenny MarksAttitude Make It Right
With Mac McAnallyWord of Mouth Semi-True Stories Aka Nobody Southbound: The Orchestra Project
With Shane McAnallyShane McAnally
With Parker McCollumNever Enough
With Pat McLaughlinNext Five Miles Horsefly
With Jo Dee MessinaUnmistakable: Love
With Frankie MillerLong Way Home
With John Michael MontgomeryBrand New Me
With Allison MoorerAlabama Song The Hardest Part Down to Believing
With Keb' Mo'Keep It Simple
With Craig MorganThis Ole Boy
With Willie NelsonTo All the Girls... First Rose of Spring A Beautiful Time
With Joe NicholsIII
With Stevie NicksIn Your Dreams 24 Karat Gold: Songs from the Vault
With Chris NormanChris Norman
With John Oates1000 Miles Of Life Good Road to Follow
With Anders OsborneBuddha & The Blues Picasso's Villa
With Jake OwenBarefoot Blue Jean Night
With Orianthi PanagarisHeaven in This Hell
With Lee Roy ParnellMidnight Believer
With Dolly PartonBlue Smoke
With Kellie Pickler100 Proof
With Kim RicheyKim Richey
With Lionel RichieTuskegee
With LeAnn RimesBlue Spitfire
With Bob SegerRide Out I Knew You When
With Blake SheltonBlake Shelton Pure BS
With Ashton ShepherdSounds So Good
With Jessica SimpsonIn This Skin
With Joss StoneLP1 Never Forget My Love
With Livingston TaylorThere You Are Again Last Alaska Moon
With Josh TurnerEverything Is Fine Deep South Country State of Mind
With Bonnie TylerRocks and Honey
With Roch VoisineCoup de tête Americana
With Joe WalshGot Any Gum? Ordinary Average Guy
With Holly WilliamsHere with Me
With Brian WilsonNo Pier Pressure
With Gretchen WilsonAll Jacked Up
With Lee Ann WomackSome Things I Know I Hope You Dance
With Chely WrightNever Love You Enough
With Trisha YearwoodJasper County Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love PrizeFighter: Hit After Hit
With Neil YoungThis Note's For You Freedom Prairie Wind Living with War Chrome Dreams II Fork in the Road
With Robin Zander
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