About.
A Raleigh, NC native, 26 year old Charlie Craichy has been raptured by music his entire life. Inspired by the longing melodies of artists like Phoebe Bridgers and Noah Gunderson, the lyrical prowess of the 70’s folk icons like Bob Dylan and James Taylor and the technical mastery of players like The Tallest Man on Earth, Craichy weaves this creative influence with his own stories of heartbreak and healing into a fine tuned tapestry.
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…more about…
Charlie Craichy is a self taught contemporary folk singer songwriter based in Raleigh, NC.
He has always played music. Starting his musical endeavors by sounding out commercial jingles on the family piano, he eventually sounded out more and more complex pieces and by the age of 12 began composing his own.
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At 14, still composing, he began playing as part of a church band where he cut his teeth leading groups on emotional journeys.
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At 16, he found his grandfather’s dusty guitar in the closet and began learning songs by his favorite folk artists at the time Iron and Wine, Gregory Alan Isakov.
Until this point, all his music had been instrumental. Charlie, when asked why he didn’t write lyrics would remark “I’ll write something down when I have something to say.”
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And at 18, after writing his first lyrics, it was as if the flood gates opened. He had written and recorded an album by the next year.
Over the years, I’ve listened to so much music and so many different kinds. I actually don’t often listen to music that sounds like something I would make. I guess, I want to know if I wrote something that I ACTUALLY wrote it.
Instrumentally his music has always been guitar centered with heavy vocal harmony.
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And lyrically Charlie’s music is nothing if not honest. He says, “It’s always been important to me to have a point. I don’t sing for no reason. I’m always trying to communicate something. If I don’t have an answer, it’s gonna be a damn good question.”
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And I know I’m on the right track when I’m writing and I hurt my own feelings.
A friend after hearing the song Best Bad Friend said “I didn’t know anyone else had ever felt that way.”
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“I hope that people find themselves in my music. I sing from my heart about The Soul. And the beautiful thing is, somewhere, our souls overlap. I don’t need to know you to know you’ve lost someone or something that you couldn’t get back. Or that you’ve been in love. Or that you didn’t know how things were gonna work out. It’s the human condition.
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What I’ve found is that if I write trying to be relatable, it sounds trite. If I write about the things I feel most alone with, others are moved.”
I hope for everyone who would like my music to hear it.