Bio

Captain Chucke is a folk punk and flailgrass musician and poet from the small town of Nelsonville, OH.

A combination of mental health issues and a rough early life lead Captain Chucke to a life on the streets in adulthood. Hitting the road in early 2015, Captain Chucke would return home to work at a call center, but found the work morally objectionable and chose to use his 2nd paycheck to buy his tenor Mahalo ukulele, and to hit the road again, chasing a life-long dream to learn and pursue music.

Learning how to play while hitchhiking the United States, Captain Chucke returned to Ohio in 2016 to record the Ohio Outlaw demo. He would join the street band Appalachian Soup Company for a brief stint, traveling with them for a couple months before continuing solo.

He would return to Ohio once again in early 2017, where he would record Wine for the Road in February, before going on a 6 show run in the spring, leading up to the release of Health Nuts Are Wingnuts Too in May. In July, Captain Chucke teamed up with Cats Not Cops to release the split, UKElear Assault in July. Under the Overpass was released in December, during another stint on the road.

Drawing inspiration from Profane Sass, Riley Coyote/Rail Yard Ghosts, Days N Daze, Lost Dog Street Band, and Johnny Hobo, Captain Chucke's music tackles social issues such as mental illness, poverty, growing homelessness, a building police state, the collapse of modern society, and life on the road.