Charlie Craig was born and raised in Watts Mill, South Carolina, a cotton mill village two miles from the city square in Laurens, South Carolina. He performed on a Saturday morning live radio show at age 15 in Laurens singing as a duet with a high school friend. Charlie began working clubs, high school auditoriums and theaters after graduating from high school. In 1968 he moved to Nashville, Tennessee and began a 40 year songwriting career that is still ongoing today.

Charlie says in his book, "Looking back on my life in this dazzling world of country music, I sometimes wonder if I am somebody else and not that kid from Watts Mill, South Carolina that used to sit up on an iron rail across from the cotton mill and daydream about the life I have been living in this business of country music for more than forty years. How could I possibly have known that the Sears & Roebuck Silvertone guitar I got when I was about fourteen years old would lay the musical path to Nashville, Tennessee and pair me up with the likes of Alan Jackson, Travis Tritt, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash and a lot of other great stars. It still amazes me how this all happened. I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I didn't know anybody important. I didn't even have a rabbit's foot. So why me? I don't honestly know. I do believe that God gave me a gift and something inspired me to take that gift and make it my craft."

Some of Charlie Craig's more than 300 recorded credits as a songwriter are listed below:

Wanted - Alan Jackson
Bring on the Night - Alan Jackson
Tropical Depression - Alan Jackson
All American Country Boy - Alan Jackson
What a Day Yesterday Was - Alan Jackson
She's Single Again - Janie Fricke, Reba McIntyre
Between an Old Memory and Me - Travis Tritt, Keith Whitley
Lay a Little Lovin' on Me - B.J. Thomas, Wayne Newton, Del Reeves & Bill Medley
I Would Like to See You Again - Johnny Cash, Kenny Rogers, Don Williams & Del Reeves
Miss Mis Behavin' - Aaron Tippin
She's Got a Way - Aaron Tippin
Every Time it Rains - George Strait
Let's Get Over Them Together - Mo Bandy & Becky Hobbs
Following the Feeling - Mo Bandy & Judy Bailey
Chicken Every Sunday - Dolly Parton
Rainy Days and Stormy Nights - Billie Jo Spears
Leavin's Been a Long Time Coming - Shenandoah
The Generation Gap - Jeannie C. Riley
I'll Take The Memories- Lorrie Morgan, Tanya Tucker
Waking Up With You - Waylon Jennings
Love Is Alive - Mark Wills
I Think I'm In Love - Keith Stegall, Conway Twitty & Ed Bruce
Your Memory Finds A Way - Moe Bandy
Nickel Bar Candy - Kitty Wells
Every Step Of The Way - Kitty Wells

Other credentials include:
Grammy Nomination - The Generation Gap
Nominated Song of the Year - Wanted
Nominated Song of the Year - She's Single Again
Wrote One Foot Dragging - used on the television show "Northern Exposure" -performed by the Coasters

Had five songs on the soundtrack of Robert Duval's Academy Award winning movie, "Tender Mercies."

Charlie Craig is also proud to have accomplished the following:
Inducted into South Carolina Entertainment Hall of Fame in 1998 Produced Nashville Super Pickers - they released two singles from this album.

Produced two developmental acts for Warner Brothers Records.

Worked in A&R for Giant Records.

Worked in A&R and Promotion with Gusto records.

Worked with several special acts in the beginning of their careers - acts that went on to become super stars; Alan Jackson, Randy Travis, and the Wilkinsons.

Charlie was directly responsible for the signing of Tracy Hagen and The Wilkinsons to their record deals.

Charlie Craig has recorded a CD with himself performing 12 hits he has written for some of Nashville and country music's biggest stars. Charlie currently has a new CD being released on Gusto Records in 2008 entitled, "The Hitmaker".