Chris Wollard

{{short description|American singer}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2024}}

{{BLP sources|date=May 2010}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Chris Wollard

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| alt = Chris Wollard playing guitar.

| caption = Chris Wollard playing with Hot Water Music at The Observatory in Santa Ana.

| origin = Gainesville, Florida

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Chris Wollard (born 1975) is an American singer and musician.{{cite web |last=Ankeny |first=Jason |title=Biography: Hot Water Music |url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p182511|pure_url=yes}} |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=May 3, 2010}} He is best known as the vocalist and guitarist of the post-hardcore band Hot Water Music, which he co-founded with co-vocalist and co-guitarist Chuck Ragan, drummer George Rebelo and bass guitarist Jason Black in October 1994.{{Cite news |last=Gumbhir |first=Anjali |date=March 30, 1995 |title=The Force is with Gainesville's hardest and heaviest: Tired From Now On and Hot Water Music |volume=88 |pages=7 |work=The Independent Florida Alligator |issue=136 |url=https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00028290/06115 |access-date=July 2, 2022 |issn=0889-2423 |oclc=13827512 |publisher=University of Florida Digital Collections}}{{Cite web |last=Black |first=Jason |date=February 1999 |title=Hot Water Music Bio |url=http://www.some.com/hwm/hwm.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990427091030/http://www.some.com/hwm/hwm.html |archive-date=April 27, 1999 |access-date=July 2, 2022 |website=Some Records}} He is also the lead vocalist and guitarist in the punk rock band The Draft, and the acoustic guitarist of the acoustic-folk band Rumbleseat.

In 2000, Wollard formed a new punk rock band, The Sheryl Cro(w) Mags (later renamed Cro(w)s), with ex-As Friends Rust and Bridgeburne R bass guitarist and close friend Kaleb Stewart.{{Cite web |last=Decker |first=Dave |date=April 29, 2021 |title=Tampa musicians will remember their friend Kaleb Stewart, and raise money for his family in May |url=https://www.cltampa.com/music/tampa-musicians-will-remember-their-friend-kaleb-stewart-and-raise-money-for-his-family-in-may-12441620 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419020314/https://www.cltampa.com/music/tampa-musicians-will-remember-their-friend-kaleb-stewart-and-raise-money-for-his-family-in-may-12441620 |archive-date=April 19, 2022 |access-date=April 19, 2022 |website=Creative Loafing Tampa Bay |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/amp_30 |title=AMP 30 |date=December 2007 |publisher=AMP |pages=69 |language=English |chapter=Chris Wollard (Hot Water Music, The Draft) |issue=30}} The band released the single The Sheryl Cro(w) Mags' #1 Hit / Watch For Repetition in 2000 on American record labels No Idea Records and Cro(w)s and Pawns Records,{{Cite web |last=Malcolm |first=Andy |date=June 12, 2007 |title=The Sheryl Cro(w) Mags – #1 Hit – 7" (2001) |url=https://collective-zine.co.uk/2007/06/13/the-sheryl-crow-mags-1-hit-7-2001/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419025242/https://collective-zine.co.uk/2007/06/13/the-sheryl-crow-mags-1-hit-7-2001/ |archive-date=April 19, 2022 |access-date=April 19, 2022 |website=Collective Zine |language=en-GB}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Black |first=Jason |date=April 2001 |title=News |url=http://hwm.indiepress.com:80/news/contentset.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010616011710/http://hwm.indiepress.com:80/news/contentset.html |archive-date=June 16, 2001 |access-date=June 4, 2022 |website=Hot Water Music}}{{Cite web |last=Black |first=Jason |date=April 11, 2001 |title=Touring |url=http://hwm.indiepress.com:80/tour/contentset.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010411044251/http://hwm.indiepress.com:80/tour/contentset.html |archive-date=April 11, 2001 |access-date=June 4, 2022 |website=Hot Water Music}} 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 Sounds of Subterrania.{{Cite web |last=Hiller |first=Joachim |date=September 2003 |title=Cro(w)s Durty Bunny LP Review |url=https://www.ox-fanzine.de/review/durty-bunny-lp-35791 |access-date=April 19, 2022 |website=Ox-Fanzine |language=de}}{{Cite web |last=Ramo |date=July 22, 2003 |title=Cro(w)s – Durty Bunny |url=https://www.punknews.org/review/2099/crows-durty-bunny |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918172859/https://www.punknews.org/review/2099/crows-durty-bunny |archive-date=September 18, 2015 |access-date=April 19, 2022 |website=Punk News |language=en}}

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 Bad Religion album The Empire Strikes First 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 The Fists of Time.{{Cite book |last=Boarts |first=Christine |url=http://archive.org/details/slug_lettuce_56 |title=Slug & Lettuce 56 |date=October 1998 |publisher=Slug and Lettuce |chapter=As Friends Rust – The Fists of Time CD (Good Life Recordings)}}

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 No Idea Records 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)."[http://www.beyondrace.com/inside/latestissue/1436-chris-wollard-and-the-ship-thieves Shorts: Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815103438/http://www.beyondrace.com/inside/latestissue/1436-chris-wollard-and-the-ship-thieves |date=August 15, 2009 }} [http://beyondrace.com/ Beyond Race Magazine (BRM).] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100207201337/http://beyondrace.com/ |date=February 7, 2010 }}

During the early Hot Water Music years, Wollard played Gibson guitars but in more recent years he's switched to a Fender telecaster.