After a childhood brought up on Neil Young, Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris it is no wonder why, Toronto based artist, Carly Malone Smith sounds like a sweet late sixties songstress.
Lacking direction, worldly wisdom and informed judgment Carly Malone spent her early twenties traveling before she found herself back in Toronto waking up one day with the realization that she just had to be a singer/songwriter.
Being a musical loner amongst her friends, Carly Malone had her work cut out for her and a lot to figure out on her own. After only four months and eight completed songs, she dove into live performance in and around Toronto. Soon after that she used a trip to Dallas to visit friends as an opportunity to compete in the Radio Ear Network’s Tunes4Kids live performance competition broadcast live over the internet, placing first. From there Carly Malone was accepted into the Williamsburg Live Songwriting Competition held in New York City and although that journey ended in the quarter finals, she built on the experience and decided playing in other cities was the natural next step. Carly Malone soon banged out a full album and by June 2008 hit the road for a quick tour including stops in Dallas, Austin and St. Louis before returning in time for the Barrie New Music Festival and a solid schedule in the greater Toronto area.
On paper Carly Malone’s music rarely reaches further than the comfort of a simple three chord progression, but what you don’t get on a piece of paper is the rich emotion and complex yet graceful lyrics that would get lost alongside anything more complicated. Poetically outlining anywhere she’s been and everywhere she’s glad she’s not, all of her songs fit together like pages in the diary of a true nomad.
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Hey magoo. Trying to put your songs on my bebo to share with my lovelies on the otherside of the world...reverb wont let me do it. Sadness! Do you have some other way i can pot them on my site chickapoo without just posting a link to your site...which i will do anyways. Cant wait to see you at the pub on Saturday...Reunion Extrodinaire. Missed you madly. See you soon. I will call you to discuss how you are getting you bum here. Much love xo
Thanks for adding me! Please check out my tunes, I recently uploaded a new song called "Hill Train", at http://www. myspace. com/jackaikensmusic and my videos at http://www. youtube. com/user/jackaikens79 and let me know what you think of my playing and songs. Also, I teach in the Cleveland, Madisonville, Sweetwater, and Tellico Plains areas of East Tennessee, I have a few spots left open. Later-Jack Aikens
Carly It is an honour to be included in your circle of friends. Please subscribe to my Blog so we can have a more meaningful myspace relationship. Xx Makeda
Carly Thanks for the compliment. It means so much more coming from a gifted artist like yourself. I appreciate your myspace friendship and support. Wishing you all the best for 2008.
hey carly - great meeting you and hearin you last weekend in bklyn, hope you had a safe trip back. lets definitely keep in touch, would love to play some shows here and there sometime soon
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