C. J. Hall is a singer, songwriter and entertainer who has performed in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. at the various theaters there. He is the co-host of Smoky Mountain Cowby Church. C. J.'s music is Country and Christian Country. His first CD is titled, "Fallow Ground."
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The older we get the more the biography can tend go on and on, so I'll try to keep this as simple as possible.


I've had a love of music for as long as I can remember. Country and gospel have probably been my strongest influences and there are more artists' influences than you can imagine. My mother swears I was singing and making up my own words since I was two but I do remember the first time I realized how music could effect people and that moment stirred my love of writing. It was in 1976, the song was "How Great Thou Art", and the artist was Dolly Parton. I was six years old. It gave me goose bumps.

God only knows the exact reason it took thirty more years to begin legitimate song writing but it wasn't for lack of trying. Maybe it's because it takes learning from experience and making my mistakes. Sometimes it's in watching other people make the same mistakes I have made. I just try to put into words the feelings we've all endured at some time.

I've served in the military and the Gulf War and worked in the corporate world as well, but it was in 2001 that I followed my heart and gave up working jobs that most folks consider respectful. By 2002, I truely understood what "starving artist" ment. Somehow I managed to make it through several years of singing for my supper and thanks to great friends along the way, it wasn't always bread and water. Since taking the stage, I've worked with a live band. Being surrounded by so many talented musicians certainly nurtured my grasp of music. Eventually, the effects were reflected in my writings and it wasn't long before folks asked me to make a recording. It was all another frustrating learning process until Billy Anderson, Jr. and Smoky Mountain Cowboy Church convinced me to go to the Bayou recording studio in Nashville, Tennessee. The result was my first CD project entitled "Fallow Ground" with eleven origonal songs on it, one having been co-written.

I continued to perform in a Pigeon Forge theater while taking projects to the studio; however, in October of 2007, I took a break to go to Iraq. I stayed a little over eight months before returning to the United States. Several more months I've spent with family in South Alabama and now I'm on my way back to Pigeon Forge and my Cowboy Church family.


I hope there are artists who enjoy my songs well enough to record them. It's difficult and risky putting your heart and thoughts out for everyone to see. When I learn one of my songs has touched someone, encouraged or inspired them, it certainly makes overcomming those fears worth the risk.

This is my story; these are my songs
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