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Due to Carolyn's busy tour schedule This myspace page is currently handled by Carolyn Mark's Record Label - Mint Records. Thanks for listening! If you wish to send Carolyn a message please do so through the Mint Records Website www.mintrecs.com
Some things are just meant to be. Birds are born to fly, politicians
were born to lie, big fat guys with giant beards were born to ride
their machines without getting hassled by the man, and Carolyn Mark
was born to make music.
Ever since first taking to the stage as Templeton the rat in her
elementary school's musical version of Charlotte's Web, show business
has been the main driving force in Carolyn's life. After coming to
the obvious conclusion that musicians were much more fun to hang
around with than actors, in the early 90's Carolyn formed her first
band... all-girl surfy twang popsters, The Vinaigrettes. This was the
beginning of a love affair with music, musicians and the road that,
even after 15+ years of crazy hard work, still puts the nitro in her
funny car.
After The Vinaigrettes, Carolyn did brief stints in such bands as The
Metronome Cowboys and The Fixin's before, in 2000, making her Mint
Records debut with her first solo album, Party Girl. Since then, and
with the help of a revolving cast of Can-Country super stars
including, but not limited to, Tolan McNeil, Garth Johnson, Ford
Pier, Nathan Tinkham, Corb Lund, NQ Arbuckle, Luke
Doucet, Amy Honey, Greg MacDonald, Neko Case and Carey Mercer, she
has released four more highly acclaimed albums. As well, she has also
travelled thousands of miles entertaining crowds of 4 to 4000...
touring Canada, the United States, the UK, Norway and Italy. She has
shared the stage with such talented musicians as Jenny Whitely, Hank
& Lily, Luther Wright, Sarah Harmer, Kelly Hogan, Lederhosen Lucil,
Geoff Berner, Joel Plaskett, The Handsome Family, Neil Hamburger, JT
and The Clouds, The Shiftless Rounders, NQ Arbuckle, Wanda Jackson,
The Waco Brothers, The Sadies and Blue Rodeo.
July 3, 2007 marks the release of Carolyn Mark's 6th Mint album,
Nothing Is Free, described by Carolyn as her "woodsy, introspective
album". Appropriately enough, Nothing Is Free was recorded by Myke
Hall at Beaver Point Hall (between visits from the ladies drum circle
and a teenage karate class!) on British Columbia's scenic Saltspring
Island. Along for the ride this time were guitar and bass virtuoso
Paul Pigat (Cousin Harley), guitar and mandolin heavyweight Paul
Rigby (Neko Case), expert vocalist Emilie Rhone (Fishing Derby,
Antler) and vivacious violinist and vocalist, Diona Davies (Po' Girl,
Geoff Berner, ESL). Additional help was ably rendered by Allison
Russell and Awna Teixeira of Po' Girl and the mythical Calvin Dick
(Neckbeard).
Nothing Is Free is a woodsy and introspective album. The recording
brings an immediacy to the music that conjures up a Sunday evening
spent playing instruments and singing songs on the back porch of the
cabin. You know, one of those days where everything seems all Emily
Carr... and, although the city seems miles away for the moment, it
still looms in the corner of your mind, nodding and smirking and
saying, "you'll be back". Carolyn knows... not even a carefree
getaway to the back woods is free, it comes with the price of
eventually having to leave. Fortunately for the listener, her
introspection finds many other things too, not the least of which is
a (sometimes dark) sense of humour and a willingness to throw caution
under the truck, have all the fun humanly possible. While some people
are content to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic, Carolyn Mark
would be pleasantly surprised to find an open bar, and would treat us
all to one last rollicking sing-a-long before the icy waters closed
over our heads.
Andrew Pearson
Due to Carolyn's busy tour schedule This myspace page is currently handled by Carolyn Mark's Record Label - Mint Records. Thanks for listening! If you wish to send Carolyn a message please do so through the Mint Records Website www.mintrecs.com
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