The Warm Up with Chris Milam [ 19:46 | 18.1 MB ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Chris Milam doesn’t like Kickstarter – too passive he says. So instead, he has decided to stage his very own fundraiser to raise money to record a new album. He’ll be playing from 4 until 10pm TODAY in front of the I Love Memphis Mural in Cooper-Young. If you are a fan of TVD, you might have already come to know Chris Milam from his excellent Another Cup of Coffee series of interviews with all sorts of Memphis music mavens. If you are not reading his blog or following on Twitter – you are missing out!

He’s been working on some new songs, so if you’re a local to Memphis, go give him some love tonight. He told us to tell you to bring beer.

Check out our podcast to hear some outstanding live tunes! Then download the The Warm Up at Ardent Studios with Chris Milam  podcast! It’s a free Memphis music download from us to you!

Chris Milam has more stories than songs. Of course, he’s not running short on those, either. And for every city, every stage , every hotel desk clerk he flirts with to get a few extra free muffins for the long drive back to Memphis, every pang of homesick or moment of road weary, there’ll be another song. And at least a dozen more stories.

But the one thing that remains the same through all of them, the one central character and unwavering motif, is the music. And like the stories of so much good music, this one starts in Memphis.

A lefty, Chris taught himself to play guitar by watching his brother, memorizing the shapes of his hands in different chords and flipping them upside down. Not long after, in high school, he started crafting songs. But it was in college that Chris did what maybe we’re all supposed to do in those four years: reach some level of self-actualization. Left entirely to his own devices, the only thing he wanted to do was write and play music. “I found myself telling people I was going to law school,” he says. “I’d told people that since the sixth grade, for some reaosn. I took the LSAT. I was looking at schools. And at some point everyone around me was like, ‘Who are you kidding? You’re not gonna do that.’ They were right.”

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