Marshall Chapman

Marshall Chapman is an American singersongwriterauthor who was born and raised in Spartanburg South Carolina To date she has released thirteen critically acclaimed albums Her most recent Blaze of Glory was hailed a masterpiece Look for her fourteenth album Songs I Cant Live Without in spring 2020 Chapmans songs have been recorded by everyone from Emmylou Harris and Joe Cocker to Irma Thomas and Jimmy Buffett In 2010 Chapman landed her first movie role playing Gwyneth Paltrows road manager in Country Strong During filming her musical Good Ol Girls adapted from the fiction of Lee Smith and Jill McCorkle featuring songs by Matraca Berg and Marshall opened offBroadway That fall Chapman simultaneously released a book They Came to Nashville and CD Big Lonesome They Came to Nashville was nominated for the 2011 SIBA Book Award for nonfiction and the Philadelphia Inquirer named Big Lonesome Best CountryRoots Album of 2010 Of her three rockin albums for Epic the Al Kooperproduced Jaded Virgin was voted Record of the Year 1978 by Stereo Review Her album Its About Time Island 1995 recorded live at the Tennessee State Prison for Women drew rave reviews from Time USA Today and the Village Voice Chapmans first book Goodbye Little Rock and Roller St Martins Press was a SIBA bestseller 2004 SIBA Book Award finalist and one of three finalists for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award The book is now in its third printing Since Country Strong Chapman continues to land film roles In Mississippi Grind 2015 she plays the bluessinging mother of a driftergambler played by Ryan Reynolds In Lovesong which opened to rave reviews at 2016 Sundance Film Festival she plays the mother of the groom Ryan Eggold opposite Rosanna Arquettes mother of the bride Most recently in Novitiate which opened to rave reviews at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival she plays a nun who loses her mind Marshall is a contributing editor to Garden Gun and Nashville Arts Magazine Shes also written for The Oxford American Southern Living W Performing Songwriter and The Bob Edwards Show SiriusXM But music she says is my first and last love