CHRIS DONOHUE
BASSIST
COMPOSER
PRODUCER
ARTISTS
EMMYLOU HARRIS
TOM JONES
COLLECTIVE SOUL
LEE ANN WOMACK
PETE SEEGER
INDIGO GIRLS
ROBERT PLANT
RITA WILSON
ARLO GUTHRIE
SIXPENCE
SOLOMON BURKE
KRISTIN CHENOWETH
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
IRIS DEMENT
ELVIS COSTELLO
SHAWN COLVIN
LYLE LOVETT
AMY GRANT
VINCE GILL
T.S. MONK
PATTY GRIFFIN
STEVE MARTIN
ALLISON KRAUSS
LYLE LOVETT
BEN RECTOR
MAREN MORRIS
DONOVAN
JOE FRAZIER
GILLIAN WELCH
OVER THE RHINE
DAVE MATTHEWS
LAUREN DAIGLE
LEO KOTTKE
THE MCGARRIGLES
STEVE EARLE
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT
BRIAN BLADE
NASHVILLE SYMPHONY
LARRY CARLTON
JARS OF CLAY
ABOUT
I'm a Nashville-based session bassist, producer, composer, music supervisor, and platinum-selling songwriter.
My bass performances and/or original music have been heard on various film and television projects for clients including the ABC, USA, and EPIX HD networks, JWT New York, iV Music Group Nashville, Burger King, Opel, Scholastic/Weston Woods, Vodafone UK, Mattel, Nestea, O’Charley’s, Clausthaler, and General Motors. I have written numerous cue projects for Bigger Story Music and License Lab.
I've been a recurring Guest Artist of Lincoln Center's Meet-The-Artist Series, serving as Musical Director for The Sleight-Of-Hand Band, the support ensemble for illusionist Mario Marchese aka Mario The Magician. I'm also the producer and co-creator of Coal Train Railroad, a family-themed jazz ensemble that made its Lincoln Center debut at The David Rubenstein Atrium in February 2011.
My production projects include albums for the Haitian folksinger Beken, UK recording artist Danni Nicholls, and Brooklyn-based Pete Lanctot & The Stray Dogs. Some of my other notable album production projects include Changing Horses (UK), The August (Nashville), and Amazon River Kids (recorded on location in northern Brazil).
GALLERY
GEAR
I use Fender, Gibson/Epiphone (endorsed), Lakland, Offbeat, Ernie Ball/MusicMan, and Univox electric basses, the KALA U-Bass (endorsed), a Boulder Creek acoustic bass, a late 19th century Tyrolean contrabass in the studio, and in performance the Eminence Bass (endorsed) made by G. Edwards Lutherie of Minneapolis, MN. I use Phil Jones Bass (endorsed) and Aguilar amplification, Daddario Strings (endorsed), and preamps by Great River, Avalon and Useful Arts, and recording software by Avid.