Artist description Amee Chapman has spent her life in Northern California, the daughter of prison workers hell bent on justice and honesty. Having picked up her first guitar during the 5th grade, Amee found herself falling in to the rhythms of a musician’s life easily and early. Over the course of the next 20 years, she would find herself taking up home on a fishing boat in Moss Landing, in a single wide on a pumpkin patch and on the isolated ridge of a goat farm. Her singing-songwriting and guitar playing reflect the images of the average and eccentric: lonesome highway phone booths, sea faring whiskey rebels, city wise angeled outlaws and tattooed cowboys, all of them pent up together on a stretch of land between the past and the present. With a voice that conveys both the brutal honesty of a changing California and the tender footed sweetness of its past, Amee Chapman maintains a meandering love affair with the roots of American music and with the oft times bitter realities of urban soul. Influenced by the likes of Lucinda Williams, Esther Phillips, Tim Bluhm and Mississippi John Hurt, Amee’s music is at once simple yet woven with the complexities of everyday emotion, Sagebrush soul in its sound and sense. Amee has spent the years pedaling her musical wares in front of the audiences of Michelle Malone, Caroline Aiken, Kristen Hall and Vonda Shepard as well as being chosen as a finalist in the ’98 Lilith Fair competition, in the ’98 Sierra Songwriters Festival and as a showcase at the 2001 Nashville New Music Conference. Currently, Amee performs up and down the West Coast, at clubs in L.A.(Tangiers, Coconut Teazer, Hotel Café), San Francisco (Last Day Saloon, Café Du Nord, Starry Plough, Red Devil Lounge, Paradise Lounge, Hemlock’s) Sacramento (Blue Lamp, Capitol Garage, Fox and Goose) and on the Coast (Henflings, & Kuumbwa in Santa Cruz, SLO Brewing Co, Toe’s Tavern). In the spring of 2003, she will being going on a Southwest Tour, sharing the bill with former Be Good Tanya, Jolie Holland. Attracted to the aliveness of vinyl and analog, Amee has chosen to record her 3rd release, Still Life of a Man, with producer and engineer Desmond Shea (Tom Waits, Court and Spark, Virgil Shaw) of San Francisco. Together with co-writer Nichole Robbins, the three strive to capture the honesty inherent in Amee’s roots while quilting the songs in the confidence of Chapman’s guitar playing and singing. Booking at: South Booking anniesouth@earthlink.net 1085 South Van Ness #301 San Francisco, CA 94110 415-643-9330 ameechapman.com

Music Style Sagebrush soul/ Americana

Musical Influences Lucinda Williams, Ben Harper, Rickie Lee Jones, The Jayhawks

Similar Artists Lucinda Williams, Patti Griffin, Phoebe Snow

Artist History Amee started in college opening for national acts and ventured from there to Los Angeles to play in the scene. She then made her way up the coast making records and turning heads. She recorded her first album "Real" with Electra records recording artist Andrew Carter and settled into Northern California life. After being a finalist in the Lilith Fair Acoustic Talent Search, Amee set her sights to the South, where she added some twang and experienced songwriting at its best. She then took her knowledge back to her home in Northern California where she now plays with her band High Tide Rodeo

Instruments Acoustic Guitar

Albums Real; 1996

Additional Info Upcoming album

Location San Francisco, California - USA

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