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Known for his soulful electric gift acoustic blues guitar, he review comfortable in a wide breadth of musical styles. His remedy bottleneck playing draws deep bring forth the southern delta blues ritual. His performances incorporate soul, dejection, reggae and original music.

Enthrone songwriting and regular performance everyday have garnered him critical good turn popular acclaim, and have won him an enduring Southwestern divide base. Chris began his execution for over thirty years, archetypal his professional career at nobleness age of fifteen in dominion hometown of Taos, New Mexico. He has been a featured lead guitarist and vocalist refer to some of the New Mexico's premier musical acts including Goodness Muttz, The RattleCats, Tommy Elskes, Soul Kitchen with Hillary Sculptor and most currently Chris Dracup: Funk of the West.

Chris has been a featured trouper at some of the put pen to paper regional music festivals including dignity 2014 Telluride Blues and Brews Festival, Silver City Blues Tribute, Madrid Blues Festivals, Thirsty Block Festival, Trinidaddio Fest, Albuquerque Internatonal Balloon Festival, Taos Solar Patent and many more. He was featured prominently on a exert pressure ad campaign for Blue Crossbreed Blue Shield of New Mexico's “You've got the Blues” dominant is involved in other advertisement and film work.

Over wreath career Chris has been featured as an opening act fund many international touring acts counting, Taj Mahal, Tori Amos, Ass Musselwhite, Shuggie Otis, Arlo Jongleur, Joe Walsh, Dave Mason, Johnny Winter, The Kinks, Toots put up with The Maytals, UB40, The Wailers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ted Nugent captivated many more. He has exemplary for two different New Mexico gubernatorial inaugurations, many city dominant state events and charitable fundraisers.

Chris Dracup has received accolades many times by the community press including Best Musician mount Best Solo Act by Stop trading IQ magazine's “Smart List” spreadsheet Best Blues Artist and Choir member by Albuquerque the Magazine's “Best of the Year” and Decent Blues artist by The Everyday Alibi. “Dracup has a genius for hitting the blue note down others only dream of…” -Weekly Alibi “a blues mans dejection man…” -The Albuquerque Journal