Chuck Cusimano

Chuck Cusimano was born to a Working Cowboy father, and his mother was a great Cowgirl. Chuck grew up on several ranches in and around Southeastern Colorado and Northeastern New Mexico. He spent many years on the Box Ranch in NE Colorado made up of almost 100,000 acres, 900-1200 mother cows following with his brother in their father’s footsteps.
But besides being a cowboy, Chuck’s father was also a band leader of a Western Swing band playing mostly three (3) nights a week. And at age fourteen (14), Chuck picked up the guitar and was hooked. Hearing Buck Owens got him wanting to learn to play the electric guitar.
Chuck entered the US Navy in 1968 seeing a few tours in the Vietnam area, but he avoided playing in front of his shipmates. But in 1969 while in Long Beach, CA, he attended the Foothill’s Club where he met the late, great Billy Mize, and Billy liked Chuck’s music ability.
Leaving the Navy in 1972, he returned to Colorado for a while, but wound up in Odessa, TX, playing six (6) nights a week with Merle David’s band. And Chuck began travelling around the Country to Nashville, TN, Detroit, MI, and other places, even back to ranching in Colorado, but still playing music.
Chuck, other than playing music, is now retired and living in Springtown, TX. Besides playing in the Ft Worth area, he writes , records and publishes Country music through his Cusimusico BMI publishing company. Chuck has written hundreds of songs and has quite a few CDs out. And this cowboy attends many Cowboy events besides playing music.
Chuck is a man of his own. One of his quotes is: “Nobody’s bed or coffee quite measures up to my own.”
What a cowboy!