Charles Cochran

Pianist and arranger Charles Cochran was a longtime fixture from the Nashville program scene, taking part in on records at the rear of everyone from Johnny Money to Garth Brooks. Given birth to and elevated in Midway, PA, Cochran started playing piano at age group four, and started his professional profession touring with senior high school classmate and fledgling pop celebrity Bobby Vinton. Throughout a following military services stint Cochran trained on the Navy College of Music, and afterwards toured using the U.S. Navy Music group. Eventually he resolved in NEW YORK, playing piano on myriad tv commercials. Cochran resolved in Nashville in 1971, quickly rising as first-call participant for hitmaking manufacturers Allen Reynolds, “Cowboy” Jack port Clement, and Garth Fundis. Traditional periods like Waylon Jennings’ 1975 work Fantasizing My Dreams and Man Clark’s masterpiece Aged No. 1 demonstrated him a pianist of unusual taste and overall economy, and he also gained notice being a songwriter, penning famous brands Dr. Hook’s “Years from Today,” Don Williams’ “EXACTLY WHAT DOES It Matter if you ask me,” and Ronnie Spector’s “Guys Will Be Guys.” As nation music stormed the pop graphs in the past due ’70s, Cochran surfaced on strikes by Kenny Rogers, Crystal Gayle, and Emmylou Harris, and in addition collaborated with cult favorites including John Prine and Townes Truck Zandt. Nevertheless, he appreciated his greatest industrial success in the first ’90s, adding string arrangements towards the Garth Brooks blockbusters No Fences and Ropin’ the Blowing wind. Cochran passed away June 7, 2007, of accidents suffered within a Nashville-area car accident. He was 71 years of age.