Charlie Peacock will participate in the Saturday seminars and lead us in worship throughout the weekend.
Charlie Peacock (born Charles William Ashworth, August 10, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, record producer, session musician, author, and advocate for social justice. He is often noted as a unique musical and lyrical voice, intelligent, innovative, and difficult to categorize. His resume includes touring artist, much-recorded songwriter, record producer, record company president, seminary student, jazz pianist, and Sr. A&R consultant to mega-music publisher, Sony/ATV.
Known for his artistic integrity and diversity, Peacock is a sought out mentor to many musicians, producers and storytellers. While he continues to work extensively in the worlds of music and film as a producer and songwriter, as well as a jazz recording artist, Peacock invests most of his time nurturing Nashville’s emerging independent artists community—including the pop/rock coalition known as Ten Out of Tenn (Erin McCarley, Andy Davis, Katie Herzig, Griffin House, Matthew Perryman Jones, Trent Dabbs, K.S. Rhoads, Tyler James, Butterfly Boucher and Jeremy Lister).
Peacock is currently Sr. VP of A&R for Twenty Ten Music, an artist development and publishing company. Recently, Peacock served as music supervisor for the Samuel Goldwyn film To Save a Life, which features music by Switchfoot, The Daylights and Joy Williams. Directed by Brian Baugh, the movie stars Randy Wayne, Deja Kreutzberg and Kim Hidalgo. Filmed in Oceanside, California, To Save a Life is set for a January 2010 release.
Peacock was also producer and the executive producer in charge of music for filmmaker Jeff Wyatt Wilson’s new documentary Any Day Now, which chronicles the “2008 Ten Out of Tenn Tour.” In April 2009, the motion picture was a first runner-up in the 40th Annual Nashville Film Festival Awards. Any Day Now follows the Ten Out of Tenn collective as it piles into Willie Nelson’s old tour bus and makes a 16-city run effectively raising the profile of Nashville’s vibrantly creative yet still underground pop/rock community. Most recently, Peacock has taken the helm as writer/director/producer for the forthcoming film The Legend Hank Cochran (2010) starring Merle Haggard, Elvis Costello, Lee Ann Womack and Jamey Johnson, and as music producer/film producer/director for Brooke Waggoner’s new Go Easy Little Doves concert DVD.
The music producer also helmed the Poison & Wine EP by The Civil Wars which features the breakout hit from Grey’s Anatomy, “Poison & Wine,” produced the song “O Love That Will Not Let Me Go” by Isaac & Anna Slade (The Fray), and executive produced and performed on Switchfoot frontman Jon Foreman’s latest EP sets titled Fall & Winter and Spring & Summer.
A long-time advocate for social justice, Peacock continues to work directly with DATA and The ONE Campaign, a fruitful relationship that began in 2002 when he hosted co-founder Bono and, later, ONE President David Lane, putting them in front of Nashville’s artist community.
Peacock’s most recent album is the improvisational duo recording he made with new Dave Matthews Band saxophonist, Jeff Coffin. Titled Arc of the Circle, the album peaked at No. 2 on the CMJ Jazz Charts in 2008. Peacock recently began production on his third jazz album, which is set to feature Coffin again, as well as longtime cohort Tony Miracle (of electronica group Venus Hum), Icelandic guitarist Hilmar Jensson, bassist Felix Pastorius, and drummer Ben Perowsky.
