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Chris Saunders

CHRIS SAUNDERS, nicknamed “Big Skin” early in life, is a prolific singer-songwriter, cornet and flugelhorn player. He has fronted and performed with many bands over the span of 40 years cultivating a style that has been described as one foot in the Blues and the other in Jazz, Rock, Cabaret, and experimental music. He is a pinch of Howlin’ Wolf and a dash of Tom Waits. He cites the music of Louis Armstrong, Dr. John, Tony Bennett, Joe Williams and Jimmy Witherspoon as fundamental to his development as a vocalist and artist. His immense reservoir of soul and soaring melodic mastery are further deepened with his wry sense of humor

Dancing With The Widow St. James

By Chris Saunders

Label: Self-Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: River's Invitation; Big Man; Butterflies and Chicken Wings; Am I Blue?; Lightning and a Feather; Dancing with the Widow St. James; Low Tide Rising on a Devil Wind; Life is a Struggle; I Don't Need No Doctor; Lullaby of the Leaves.

The Chris Saunders Band: Dancing With The Widow St. James

by Richard J Salvucci
July 20, 2021

Was there a time in your life when you took off for nowhere in particular, maybe a mild summer's night, rolled down the windows, and just grooved? Chances are you had some primitive form of sound technology that filled a well-worn vehicle with music that just suggested that life was a good thing? Ok, so perhaps ...