Chris Wollard (born 1975) is an American singer and musician. He is best known as the vocalist and guitarist of the

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Hot Water Music Hot Water Music is an American punk rock band formed in October 1994 and based in Gainesville, Florida. Since their formation, the group has consisted of Chuck Ragan and Chris Wollard on shared lead vocals and guitars, bass guitarist Jason B ...

, which he co-founded with co-vocalist and co-guitarist

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, drummer George Rebelo and bass guitarist Jason Black in October 1994. He is also the lead vocalist and guitarist in the

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, and the acoustic guitarist of the acoustic-

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Rumbleseat Rumbleseat was the acoustic-folk side project of Hot Water Music frontmen Chuck Ragan and Chris Wollard, and Samantha Jones. Formed in 1998, Rumbleseat released four 7" records before releasing the full length album, 'Rumbleseat Is Dead', whi ...

. In 2000, Wollard formed a new punk rock band, The Sheryl Cro(w) Mags (later renamed Cro(w)s), with ex-

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and

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bass guitarist and close friend

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. The band released the single ''The Sheryl Cro(w) Mags' #1 Hit / Watch For Repetition'' in 2000 on American record labels

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and Cro(w)s and Pawns Records, and embarked on a three-week tour of the East Coast and Midwest United States in May 2001, accompanied by another Hot Water Music side-project, Unitas. The band followed up with the album ''Durty Bunny'', which was released after the band changed its name to Cro(w)s, in 2002 on German record label

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. Other Gainesville-based projects in which Wollard has participated include Baroque (featuring Samantha Jones) and The Blacktop Cadence. He is also given two co-writing credits on the

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'' for the songs "The Quickening" and "Beyond Electric Dreams". In 1998, he and two other members of Hot Water Music provided backup vocals on the As Friends Rust song "Home Is Where the Heart Aches", released on the band's debut EP ''

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''. Wollard released a split 7-inch w/Mike Hale (formerly of Gunmoll) on Asian Man Records. His first solo record, the self-titled ''Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves,'' was released on

in 2009, followed by "Canyons" in 2012 and an EP "How Much Sh** Can you Take?" in 2013. The Ship Thieves are named after the book titled "The Ship Thieves" by historian Sian Rees.Terra, David (July 2009)
Shorts: Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves."''Beyond Race Magazine (BRM)''.
During the early Hot Water Music years, Wollard played Gibson guitars but in more recent years he's switched to a Fender telecaster.

References

Living people Musicians from Gainesville, Florida 1975 births Guitarists from Florida American male guitarists 21st-century American male singers 21st-century American singers 21st-century American guitarists Hot Water Music members {{US-singer-stub