Chuck McCabe started his musical life as a banjo picker in a bluegrass band... they played in Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Saloon, and toured Vietnam for the USO.

He picked up the guitar, and played it from Sunset Strip to Cape Cod, and everywhere in between: Vail, Steamboat... coffee houses, tourist traps, gin mills, Ramada's and Holiday Inns.  He has survived three major label deals, recording his music in L.A. and Nashville for Capitol, ABC, and GRT.  He was a staff writer for ABC.

Winner of the 2001 Woody Guthrie songwriting competition, Chuck has played folk festivals in Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Utah, Oregon, and California.

Somebody once described his musical style as "Somewhere between Roger Miller and Hoagy Carmichael."

After watching Chuck perform, Erik Darling, of the legendary Weavers and Rooftop Singers said: "Onstage, he appears taller."

"Tule Fog" Slippery Rock String Band (1967 single), Dome Records
"Six Penny Opera" Six Penny Opera (1968 album), Capitol Records
"You Took the Time" (1968 single), Metronome Records
"Phoenix" (1969 album), ABC Records
"Baby, I'm Sorry" Phoenix (1969 single), ABC Records
"Live at the Woodshed" -Cape Cod (1972 album), Woodshed Records
"Pensacola Flash" (1976 album), Woodshed Records
"Travellin' Fever" (1976 single), Woodshed Records
"That Old Pet Rock of Mine" (1977 single), GRT Records
"Home" Hard Travelin' (1993 album), Gypsy Wind Productions
"Making Tracks" Hard Travelin' (1996 album), Gypsy Wind Productions
"Burgers and Champagne" (1998 album), BlahBlahWoofWoof Records
1998: BlahBlahWoofWoof sampler #1
1999 album: "The World Needs a Melody" Hard Travelin', Gypsy Wind Productions
2000 track: "I Like Your Skin" Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes #8 compilation
2001 BlahBlahWoofWoof sampler #2
2002 album: "Bad Gravity Day" BlahBlahWoofWoof Records
2002 BlahBlahWoofWoof Sampler #3 (2 tracks)
2003 album: "Blues Coffee House Collection Vol. I" IMS Records
2004: Seamus Kennedy, album:  "On the Rocks" Gransha Records, (2 cuts)

Single Performer, and Bands: the Burger Band (me with bass & drums, mostly my stuff), Band Emerald (Irish), Gregg Andrade and the Perspirations (Oldies).  Working with Myron Dove (Santana), Bobby Black (Asleep at the Wheel), Mary McCaslin (vocals), Joe Weed (fiddle), Gene Parsons (Byrds, Burrito Bros).

Johnny Mercer, Fats Waller, Dylan, Leon Russell, Randy Newman, Springsteen

Dr. John, Clapton, some Reggae, Irish artists like Seamus Kennedy, Ben Sands, Eric Bogle

"I once played 44 one-hour shows in a month, and decided after the first week to leave the Elixir® Strings with Nanoweb® Coating on, just to see how far they'd make it.  They didn't break, and never got to that dull-thud stage most strings would have reached after a couple of days.  They looked a little ragged, but the tonality was still there!  Elixir® Strings sound and feel great…other strings don't sound right to me anymore."