We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Chris Love. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Chris below.

Alright, Chris thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Let’s start with education – we’d love to hear your thoughts about how we can better prepare students for a more fulfilling life and career.

I would make it clear as day, that you do not need to go to 4 year university to have a successful career. That is all I heard growing up in school, that you either go into the military or go to college. So I went to college and wasted a lot of time and money on something I never even completed. Trade jobs are important to society and often times pay much more than jobs these days that require degrees. Follow your heart and your passion regardless of what some high school counselor tells you to do.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

As a kid, I was in bands and a solo artist. I started playing clubs on Beale Street in Memphis when I was 13. My dad would take me to Beale almost every weekend when I started playing guitar and it just steamrolled from there.

After a career as an artist for well over a decade I got married and started a family. I didn’t want to play out anymore but still needed to create, so I began producing other peoples music and now here we are.

I’ve been nominated by multiple music organizations for Producer of the Year, including the esteemed SEA Awards.
In 2015 I won Best Producer by the Nashville Industry Music Awards. In my younger years I won the Jimi Hendrix Guitar Competition in Memphis at age 16, and at 23 I was featured in Forbes Magazine.

Currently I’m producing and mixing a plethora of music from all different genres.

Recently I’ve had the pleasure of producing hit songwriter Rick Ferrell (Something like That- Tim McGraw), Casee Allen, Ryan Robinette on their song “Drunk in My Drank”, as well as the heavy metal outfit Mountain Tomb, who just scored a major distribution deal.

Do you have multiple revenue streams – if so, can you talk to us about those streams and how your developed them?

Absolutely. I’m a stay at home dad so my hours are limited and I’m usually only accessible in the afternoon and evenings. So I can only produce 1-2 artists at a time given the schedule. To fill in that time however, I teach private lessons on guitar, bass, drums and percussion (marching and orchestral), ukulele and banjo. I have a big roster of students I see every week and that supplements when I’m in between producing.

I also mix records for other producers as well, as that is not as time restraining as doing production work.

Can you talk to us about how your funded your business?

I’m a firm believer if I can’t pay cash for something, I don’t buy it. A lot of my gear in the studio is a process of slow accumulation over my entire life. I have guitars in there I’ve gotten for Christmas from my parents that I use daily.

When I started working I would take half of my income and just use it on buying new gear, and items for the studio (acoustic treatment, drywall, lighting etc.)

I don’t owe a dime on anything in my studio and never have, so that’s never lingering over me to worry about.

Contact Info:

• Website: Www.chrislovestudios.com
• Instagram: Www.instagram.com/chrislovestudios
• Facebook: Www.Facebook.com/chrislovestudios

Image Credits
Black and white photos courtesy of Music City Dreams Media, Nashville TN