Cale Dodds

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Cale Dodds

| image = Cale Dodds.jpg

| birth_name = Cale Dodds

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|05|27}}{{cite web|url=http://www.uabsports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/hunt_sam00.html|title=Cale Dodds|work=UAB Sports.com|accessdate=January 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202123653/http://www.uabsports.com/sports/m-footbl/mtt/hunt_sam00.html|archive-date=February 2, 2014|url-status=dead}}

| birth_place = Columbus, Georgia, United States

| origin = Nashville, Tennessee, United States

| genre = Country, Pop Punk (early)

| occupation = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter}}

| label = Warner Music Nashville

| past_member_of = Lakeside

| years_active = 2002-present

| website = {{URL|caledodds.com}}

}}

Cale Dodds is an American country music artist and songwriter who is currently signed to Spirit Music Group. {{cite web |title=Cale Dodds Signs With Spirit Music Nashville/Fluid Music Revolution |url=https://musicrow.com/2022/06/cale-dodds-signs-with-spirit-music-nashville-fluid-music-revolution/ |website=Music Row}}

Musical career

Cale Dodds has been writing songs since the age of 12.{{Cite news|url=http://www.digitaljournal.com/entertainment/music/cale-dodds-shares-details-about-new-single-take-you-back/article/518386|title=Cale Dodds shares details about new single 'Take You Back' (Includes interview)|date=2018-03-26|access-date=2018-06-13}} At the age of 22, after attending Columbus State University, Dodds made the move from Columbus, GA to Nashville, TN to pursue his career in music.{{Cite news|url=http://www.thegeorgeanne.com/arts_and_entertainment/article_6ccd32cc-3d2b-11e4-84f7-4b02fd7810b8.html|title=Chasing The Dream with Cale Dodds|last=Lewis|first=Alia|work=The George-Anne|access-date=2018-06-13|language=en}} In 2014, Cale released his first EP titled “Wild and Wreckless”{{Citation|title=Wild and Reckless - EP by Cale Dodds on iTunes|date=2014-05-07|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/wild-and-reckless-ep/873177736|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-13}}—a five-song project recorded at Ocean Way Studio with Kyle Jacobs and Matt McClure.{{Cite web|url=http://theboot.com/cale-dodds-free-download-wild-and-reckless-ep/|title=Cale Dodds Offering Free Download of 'Wild and Reckless' EP|website=The Boot|language=en|access-date=2018-06-13}} In 2015, Dodds received a cut from A Thousand Horses for his song “Drunk Dial,” which reached number 23 on Billboards's Country Airplay Chart; and in 2016, Warner/Chappell Music signed Dodds to a worldwide publishing agreement.{{Cite news|url=https://musicrow.com/2016/03/warnerchappell-music-signs-cale-dodds/|title=Warner/Chappell Music Signs Cale Dodds|date=2016-03-14|work=MusicRow - Nashville's Music Industry Publication - News, Songs From Music City|access-date=2018-06-13|language=en-US}} In March 2016, Dodds independently released his second project, "People Watching - EP", produced by Corey Crowder and Zach Abend. Since the release, his songs "People Watching" and "Lying" have been streamed over 5 million times, and “Acting Our Age,” was selected for the EA Sports Madden ‘17 soundtrack which also featured artists such as Blake Shelton and Brantley Gilbert.{{Cite web|url=http://www.30asongwritersfestival.com/artist/cale-dodds|title=Cale Dodds {{!}} 30asongwritersfestival.com|website=www.30asongwritersfestival.com|language=en|access-date=2018-06-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116053425/http://www.30asongwritersfestival.com/artist/cale-dodds|archive-date=2017-01-16|url-status=dead}}

Cale has also been tour support for artists like Sam Hunt, Brett Eldredge, and Billy Currington{{Cite web|url=http://tasteofcountry.com/cale-dodds-music-teaser/|title=Cale Dodds Releases New EP Teaser Trailer|website=Taste of Country|language=en|access-date=2018-06-13}}

In January 2017, Cale Dodds joined Warner Music Nashville.{{Cite news|url=https://musicrow.com/2017/01/warner-music-nashville-signs-cale-dodds/|title=Warner Music Nashville Signs Cale Dodds|date=2017-01-30|work=MusicRow - Nashville's Music Industry Publication - News, Songs From Music City|access-date=2018-06-13|language=en-US}} Later that year, in September, Dodds released his first major label "double"—a two-sided single—featuring "All Over" and "Lying."{{Citation|title=All Over - Single by Cale Dodds|date=2017-09-29|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/all-over-single/1288122190|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-13}} The second double followed in November with "Out Of My System" and "People Watching,"{{Citation|title=Outta My System by Cale Dodds|date=2017-11-17|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/outta-my-system/1307288187?i=1307288188|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-13}} and the third in January 2018 with Cale's radio single "Take You Back" and "Like We Do."{{Citation|title=Take You Back by Cale Dodds|date=2018-01-12|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/take-you-back/1326408083?i=1326408510|language=en-US|access-date=2018-06-13}}

"Take You Back" arrived to country music radio in March,{{Cite news|url=http://www.soundslikenashville.com/news/cale-dodds-take-back-radio/|title=Cale Dodds Will Live His Dream Of Sending a Song to Radio|date=2018-01-19|work=Sounds Like Nashville|access-date=2018-06-13|language=en-US}} but prior to hitting the airwaves, Rolling Stone had already named Cale Dodds one of their November 2017 "New Country Artists You Need To Know."{{Cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/country/lists/10-new-country-artists-you-need-to-know-november-2017-w511601/cale-dodds-w511605|title=10 New Country Artists You Need to Know: November 2017|website=Rolling Stone|access-date=2018-06-13}} CMT Listen Up revealed him as one of their "18 for 2018" class members—a year-long campaign that spotlights "country music's most promising newcomers."{{Cite news|url=http://www.cmt.com/news/1789438/cmt-listen-up-reveals-18-for-2018/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214232519/http://www.cmt.com/news/1789438/cmt-listen-up-reveals-18-for-2018/|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 14, 2017|title=CMT Listen Up Reveals "18 for 2018"|work=CMT News|access-date=2018-06-13}} Billboard and Rolling Stone both named Dodd's 2018 CMA Fest performance as one of the best things they saw from the four-day music festival.{{Cite news|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/country/8460165/cma-fest-2018-day-2-recap-carrie-underwood-blake-shelton|title=The 17 Best Moments From CMA Fest 2018 Day 2|work=Billboard|access-date=2018-06-13}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/country/lists/cma-music-festival-2018-30-best-things-we-saw-w521321/best-spider-man-cale-dodds-w521349|title=CMA Music Festival 2018: 30 Best Things We Saw|website=Rolling Stone|access-date=2018-06-13}}

In early October 2018, Cale Dodds shared new music with a studio and acoustic version of his song, "What We Gonna Do About It;"{{Citation|title=What We Gonna Do About It by Cale Dodds|date=2018-10-05|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/what-we-gonna-do-about-it/1437459328?i=1437459498|language=en-US|access-date=2018-10-26}} and followed with another two versions of "Where I Get It From" which was released in November of that same year.{{Citation|title=Where I Get It From by Cale Dodds|date=2018-11-02|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/where-i-get-it-from/1440082227?i=1440082232|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-16}}

Most recently, in March 2019, Dodds released his current single "I Like Where This Is Going"{{Citation|title=I Like Where This Is Going - Single by Cale Dodds|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-like-where-this-is-going-single/1455473002|language=en-us|access-date=2019-03-20}}—a song written with hit writers Nicolle Galyon and Busbee about "anticipation" and seeing "the uncertainty of what’s going to happen, while having faith that it’s going to unfold in the right way."{{Cite web|url=https://countrymusictattletale.com/2019/03/17/cale-dodds-tells-fans-i-like-where-this-is-going-in-brand-new-single/|title=Cale Dodds Tells Fans "I Like Where This Is Going" In Brand New Single|date=2019-03-17|website=Country Music Tattle Tale - Your country music news source|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-20}}

Discography

= Extended plays =

class="wikitable"

!Title

!Details

Wild & Wreckless

Release date: May 7, 2014
Label: Independent
Format: Digital

People Watching - EP

Release date: March 4, 2016
Label: Independent
Format: Digital

= Singles =

class="wikitable"

! Year

! Single

2018

|"Take You Back"

2019

|"I Like Where This Is Going"

2021

|"You Shouldn’t Have"

2021

|"Doin' It Right"

=Music videos=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" ! Year ! style="width:16em;"\| Title ! Director
rowspan="3"\| 2018 ! scope="row"\|"Take You Back" \|Jack Guy
scope="row"\|"What We Gonna Do About It" \| Dustin Haney
scope="row"\|"Where I Get It From" \|Dustin Haney

class="wikitable plainrowheaders"

! Year

! style="width:16em;"| Title

! Director

rowspan="3"| 2018

! scope="row"|"Take You Back"

|Jack Guy

scope="row"|"What We Gonna Do About It"

| Dustin Haney

scope="row"|"Where I Get It From"

|Dustin Haney

= Songwriter Features =

class="wikitable" ! rowspan="2" \|Artist ! rowspan="2" \|Album ! rowspan="2" \|Song Title ! rowspan="2" \|Year ! colspan="3" \|Peak Chart Positions
US Country !US Country Airplay !CAN Country
rowspan="2" \|Austin Jenckes \| rowspan="2" \|"An American Story" \|"Sound of Love" \| rowspan="2" \|2012 \| \| \|
"Wild and Wreckless" \| \| \|
Jared Porter \|"East To West" \|"Kings and Queens" \|2014 \| \| \|
rowspan="3" \|Jess Moskaluke \| rowspan="2" \|"Light Up The Night" \|"Night We Won't Forget" \| rowspan="2" \|2014 \| \| \|17
"When He's Drunk" \| \| \|
"Kiss Me Quiet" \|"Good For You" \|2015 \| \| \|
A Thousand Horses \|Southernality \|"(This Ain't No) Drunk Dial" \|2015 \|30 \|23 \|50
Filmore \|"Proof" \|"Typical" \|2016 \| \| \|
rowspan="2" \|Lit \| rowspan="2" \|"These Are The Days" \|"Good Problem to Have" \| rowspan="2" \|2018 \| \| \|
"I Could Be Wrong" \| \| \|
Chase Rice \|"The Album" \|"Drinkin' Beer. Talkin' God. Amen." \|2020 \| \|1 \| \| \|
Chris Young \| \|"All Dogs Go to Heaven" \|2023 \| \| \|

class="wikitable"

! rowspan="2" |Artist

! rowspan="2" |Album

! rowspan="2" |Song Title

! rowspan="2" |Year

! colspan="3" |Peak Chart Positions

Country

!US

Country

Airplay

!CAN

Country

rowspan="2" |Austin Jenckes

| rowspan="2" |"An American Story"

|"Sound of Love"

| rowspan="2" |2012

"Wild and Wreckless"

Jared Porter

|"East To West"

|"Kings and Queens"

|2014

rowspan="3" |Jess Moskaluke

| rowspan="2" |"Light Up The Night"

|"Night We Won't Forget"

| rowspan="2" |2014

|17

"When He's Drunk"

"Kiss Me Quiet"

|"Good For You"

|2015

A Thousand Horses

|Southernality

|"(This Ain't No) Drunk Dial"

|2015

|30

|23

|50

Filmore

|"Proof"

|"Typical"

|2016

rowspan="2" |Lit

| rowspan="2" |"These Are The Days"

|"Good Problem to Have"

| rowspan="2" |2018

"I Could Be Wrong"

Chase Rice

|"The Album"

|"Drinkin' Beer. Talkin' God. Amen."

|2020

Chris Young

|"All Dogs Go to Heaven"

|2023

Television work

class="wikitable"
Year ! Series ! Role
2015-2016 \| I Love Kellie Pickler \| Himself
2022 \| "I Like Where This is Going" Music Video appears in The Special One (Beavis and Butt-Head)

class="wikitable"

Year

! Series

! Role

2015-2016

| I Love Kellie Pickler

| Himself

2022

| "I Like Where This is Going" Music Video appears in The Special One (Beavis and Butt-Head)