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Charlie Peacock

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Charlie Peacock (born Charles William Ashworth, August 10, 1956, also goes by Charlie Peacock-Ashworth) is a songwriter, record producer, musician, and writer, best known for his work in the field of Contemporary Christian Music. He was born in Yuba County, California. Ashworth studied at the California State University, Sacramento before becoming a professional musician and is currently working on a Masters degree in Theological Studies at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.

In 1976, Peacock appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle in a jazz column written by Frank Kofsky, who helped to start Peacock’s career. In his early days as a musician, Peacock nestled in with some of the Bay Area’s finest, keeping company with major artists like singer Eddie Henderson, trumpeter Mark Isham, and pianist Art Lande’s ECM-signed Rubisa Patrol. Later on Peacock established his own band named the Charlie Peacock Group, that were later signed to Bill Graham Productions. During the mid-80’s the Charlie Peacock Group toured all over the US and Canada in support of other 80’s bands as The Fixx, General Public, Let’s Active and Missing Persons, and Charlie Peacock opened up for artists as diversed as The Hooters and Bob Marley as well. Charlie Peacock’s first solo album, the self produced Lie Down in the Grass, was released in 1984 on the Sacramento label Exit Records under distribution by A&M Records. Two years later a self titled album, co-produced by Nigel Grey (The Police), was released on Exit Records, this time around under distribution by Island Records.

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1	The Way of Love full track	12
2	Lie Down in the Grass full track	9
3	No Place Closer to Heaven full track	7
3	Psalm 51 full track	7
3	Big Man's Hat full track	7
6	One Thing full track	6
6	Down in the Lowlands full track	6
8	My Mind Played a Trick on Me full track	5
9	Nobody's Gonna Bring Me Down full track	4
9	Counting the Cost full track	4
11	Lost in Translation full track	3
11	Put The Love Back Into Love (The Secret Of Time Album Version) full track	3
11	In the Light	3
11	Aim a Little Higher	3
11	Liquid Days full track	3

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hjvanderklis wrote:
March 2009

It was fun hearing The Way of Love (recorded at the Dutch Flevo Festival) again!

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payneclan wrote:
July 2008

The first song that caught my attention from CP was The Secret Of Time. It was innovative beyond normal creativity (if there is such a thing). I had been writing songs for about 2-2 1/2 years when I ran across Peacock, & he changed the way I looked at songwriting forever. Others contributed, but he was the catalyst that reinvented the box everyone else claims to think outside!! (Hey, that was pretty good!! I'm usually that profound!!) Anyway, Charlie, if you read this, I gotta give a big shout of thanks and a hat full of gratitude. You've been an inspiration and a blessing. You taught me how to release both pain and pleasure into words and music. Life is living, now.

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MilanyAece wrote:
October 2007

The Secret of Time was the first CD I ever owned. I must've been 9 years old... my favorite song at the time was Almost Threw It All Away. It's funny b/c at the time my brother was into Margaret Becker, and now he's the Peacock addict and I own 9 of her albums and know most of the words to most of her songs :P

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