Chip Oliphant

Since the young age of 8 years old, Chip Oliphant began learning how to play guitar and sing songs. His passion and appreciation for the instrument and for singing became apparent immediately. Growing up in a musical family allowed him to be submerged in music every day of his youth. Some of his earliest influences were hearing his mom and dad play guitar and harmonize bluegrass-gospel songs together around the house and listening to his dad play classic songs by Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, George Jones, Hank Williams Jr. and The Eagles. Also, his two older brothers helped enhance his musical taste diversely. His middle brother would teach him how to play Robert Earl Keen songs out of guitar songbooks and turned him on to other Texas songwriters such as Pat Green and Lyle Lovett. His oldest brother, a multi-instrumentalist, was constantly practicing saxophone and electric guitar back in those days, which influenced Chip in the big-band jazz and blues/rock genres. This led him to discover the music of guitarists like Stevie Ray Vaughan, BB King and Jimmy Hendrix. Needless to say, Chip Oliphant has had music in his blood since the day he was born and throughout his life, he has been molded, shaped and polished into an artist that blends a plethora of musical styles to create his own original niche sound.