Conrad Reeder
{{Short description|American singer-songwriter}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2014}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Conrad Reeder
| image = ConGoldMic.jpg
| caption = Reeder in 1988
| image_size =
| birth_name = Connie S. Reeder
| alias = Fugitive Blonde
| birth_date = 1954
| birth_place = Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
| origin =
| genre = Rock, folk, pop, others
| occupation = Recording artist, singer, songwriter, playwright, professor
| years_active = 1974–present
| associated_acts = John Denver, Fugitive Blonde
}}
Conrad Reeder (born 1954), also known as Connie Reeder Nichols, is an American singer, songwriter, writer and college professor. She was married to the late producer and recording engineer Roger Nichols for over thirty years.
Music career
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She was born in Columbus, Ohio, United States.{{Cite web|url=https://conradreeder.com/bio/|title=Bio|website=Conradreeder.com|date=October 12, 2018|access-date=October 8, 2021}} Reeder sang for fifteen years with John Denver in live concerts, on television and recordings including Dreamland Express and It's About Time. She sang live duets with Denver as well as performing as a background singer and stayed in contact with Denver's mother after he died in a plane crash.{{Cite web|url=http://www.aurorasentinel.com/news/article_f7865bd5-1825-52e1-957e-2e629f392761.html|title=Services set for Erma Deutschendorf, 87, mother of John Denver|website=Aurorasentinel.com|access-date=January 31, 2012}}
She also co-wrote the Denver song "Thanks to You."{{Cite web|url=https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/18420449|title=THANKS TO YOU LYRICS|website=Lyrics.com|access-date=September 24, 2021}}
Reeder is credited as a writer or co-writer on all tracks of her husband's release, The Roger Nichols Project.
{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/harmonic-ocean-r205516|title=The Roger Nichols Project|website=AllMusic|access-date=January 31, 2012}} She was signed to Motown's Morocco Records in the early 1980s, but the label folded before her first album was released. Reeder led her own band called Fugitive Blonde in Nashville, Tennessee the 1980s and 1990s, with an earlier Los Angeles version titled Big Blonde.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias=digital-music&field-keywords=wildlife+Fugitive+Blonde&rh=n:163856011,k:wildlife+Fugitive+Blonde&ajr=0|title=Amazon.com : wildlife Fugitive Blonde|website=Amazon.com|access-date=October 8, 2021}}
Writing career
She was a featured columnist and article writer at EQ Magazine {{Cite web|url=https://conradreeder.com/2010/02/06/tony_brown_eq_cover/|title=Nashville State of Mind: The Demo Queen takes on the King of the Nashville Music Scene straight from Music Row|website=Conradreeder.com|date=February 6, 2010 |access-date=September 24, 2021}} in the 1990s, writing as C. Reeder. The column, The Demo Queen, often lampooned the trials involved in the process of recording demo tapes in quest of a record deal.{{Cite web|url=https://conradreeder.com/2000/09/23/madame-meets-midem/|title=Madam Meets Midem|website=Conradreeder.com|date=September 24, 2000 |access-date=September 24, 2021}} Her writing sometimes takes a serious view of life and love,{{Cite web|url=http://www.conradreeder.com/cpage4.htm|title=Sunshine on My Shoulder|access-date=January 31, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729150750/http://www.conradreeder.com/cpage4.htm|archive-date=July 29, 2012|url-status=dead}} and a book, Memory Clouds: Good Grief Bad Grief, is available on Amazon.{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/Memory-Clouds-Good-Grief-Bad-ebook/dp/B017YB4L34|title = Memory Clouds: Good Grief Bad Grief|via=Amazon.com|date = November 12, 2015| publisher=Gopita Press }} Her plays have been staged in Florida and California (Graffiti).{{cite web |url=http://www.conradreeder.com/?p=1084 |title=DG presents "Graffiti" in North Hollywood | Connie Reeder Nichols |access-date=2013-11-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20131110080858/http://www.conradreeder.com/?p=1084 |archive-date=November 10, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}
Education
Reeder graduated in 2008 from the University of New Orleans with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing/Playwrighting. Her thesis, Jack is Dead, was inspired by Denver's accidental death. She has taught as an adjunct professor at Palm Beach State College in Florida.{{Cite web|url=http://lowres.uno.edu/alumni.cfm|title=The Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Alumni Page|website=Lowres.uno.edu|access-date=January 31, 2012}} Reeder is currently a Doctoral candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, and is also a lecturing professor at the Maui campus of the University of Hawaii.
References
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External links
- [http://conradreeder.com/ Blog and website for Conrad Reeder.]
- [https://www.amazon.com/Beach-Poems-Vignettes-ebook/dp/B00DE8NVW4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1371423167&sr=1-1&keywords=On+the+Beach+Connie+Reeder+Nichols C. Reeder Nichols On the Beach: Poems and Vignettes]
- {{YouTube|ugm7zU_pDDo|Conrad Reeder sings a duet live with John Denver on Fly Away live in England in 1986}}.
- [http://www.grammy.com/videos/roger-nichols-family-accepts-grammy-special-merit-award Conrad Reeder aka Connie Reeder Nichols accepts a Special Merit Grammy Award on behalf of her husband Roger Nichols.]
- [http://www.venustheloveshow.com/ Conrad Reeder and Pam Wolfe's website for their musical Venus The Love Show.]
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Category:Musicians from Columbus, Ohio
Category:Musicians from California