Biography

Marshall Chapman is a multi-hyphenated American treasure. The singer-songwriter-author-actress was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She has released fourteen critically acclaimed albums, and The Associated Press proclaimed her most recent CD, @Songs I Can’t Live Without (2020) as “perhaps her best ever". @Jaded Virgin (1978) was voted Record of the Year by Stereo Review. @It’s About Time… (1995) recorded live at the Tennessee Prison for Women, drew rave reviews from Time, USA Today and the Village Voice. Her first book @Goodbye Little Rock and Roller (2004, St. Martin’s Press) was a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. In 2010 Chapman landed her first movie role, with Gwyneth Paltrow & Tim McGraw in @Country Strong. In @Mississippi Grind (2015) with Ryan Reynolds, she performs "Rainbow Road" on screen and on the soundtrack CD. Her full filmography is on IMDb.com All in late 2010 the musical with her songs Good Ol’ Girls opened off-Broadway, she released her second book They Came to Nashville (2010 Vanderbilt and CMHOF Press), and 12th CD Big Lonesome, (named the Philadelphia Inquirer's Best Country/Roots Album of 2010.) Marshall is a contributing editor to Garden & Gun magazine, and also written for The Oxford American, W, and Performing Songwriter among others. "But music,” she says, “is my first and last love.” She is featured in the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum exhibit Outlaws & Armadillos: Country’s Roaring ’70s”, through 2021.