Chuck Mead

One of the founding members of the alt-country quintet BR5-49, Chuck Mead embarked on other projects when that group went on hiatus after 2006's Dog Days. Along with becoming a staff writer at one of Nashville's leading song publishers and forming the Hillbilly All-Stars with members of the Mavericks, he was also musical arranger and director of the Broadway hit Million Dollar Quartet from its workshop productions in Daytona and Seattle to its runs in Chicago, New York, and London. In 2009, he released his first album with the Grassy Knoll Boys, Journeyman's Wager; Back at the Quonset Hut, which he recorded at Nashville's namesake studio with original BR5-49 producer Mike Janas, Old Crow Medicine Show, Bobby Bare, and Jamie Johnson, arrived in 2012. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi