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Released: Jan 1, 2010
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  • Genre: Folk Rock

    Location NORTHAMPTON, Massachusetts, Un

    Profile Views: 13070

    Last Login: 8/31/2012

    Member Since 3/25/2007

    Website www.carriefergusonmusic.com

    Record Label unsigned

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    The instrument Carrie Ferguson grew up playing was an enormous upright, chocolate-brown (to put it politely) piano inherited from the family of one of her father's third-grade students. This piano, built from the parts of several old pianos by students in a local instrument building workshop, had a darkly booming, slightly furry quality to it, not unlike the weather outside in her home town of Arcata on the North Coast of California. In order to write good music you had to play the way the instrument itself demanded, which to her ear meant sticking to the lower three quarters of the keyboard, and using plenty of rolling arpeggios and minor chords. Ferguson credits the stubborn and sonorous voice of her childhood piano, combined with the perpetual fog and exhilerating clamminess of coastal Northern California, as instilling in her the baseline aesthetic of melancholic optimism that still permeates her words and music today. Carrie started performing her songs in 1990 and has been going non-stop ever since. From 1998-2005 she was in the Northampton, MA band, Plump. Since then she has continued to perform solo or with her band, The Cherry Street Band. She also plays keyboards in two Western Mass bands, The Ambiguities and the Chris Scanlon Band. Carrie's first full-length solo record, Riding On the Back of The Wind, out in February 2010, is a catchy, exuberant collection of melodic story pop. When she first started making the record in L.A. with her brother, Eric Ferguson, back in 2007, it was basically a break-up album. By the time she finished the project in MA in 2009, the record's tone had changed from just "Where did you go?" to "Here I am!". The songs on the album explore that full trajectory from initial loss and heartbreak (Paris, Small White Rock), to the strength and hope that comes from acceptance (Beautiful World, Let You Go), to the sense of jubilance that comes from putting your whole self out there (Riding On the Back Of the Wind, Girls Like Me). Carrie co-produced the CD with Scot Coar at Sow's Ear Studios in Easthampton, MA, who also engineered and mixed the record. Additional recording was done with Eric Ferguson, at Blue Cup Studios, in L.A. CA. The CD features Pioneer Valley musicians Jim Henry on guitar, mandolin and dobro, J.J. O'Connell on drums, Mark Schwaber on bass, Chris Scanlon on guitar, Maggie Nowinski on back-up vocals, Wayne Smith on cello, and Emily Breines on violin. Following her sold-out CD release show on February 28, at the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA, Carrie plans on touring in support of the record in Spring and Summer 2010. Stay posted for show details!

  • Members

    Carrie Ferguson - vocals, guitar, piano, organ. The Cherry Street Band: Nur Habib - drums, percussion, mandolin, guitar Amy Acker - bass, Chris Scanlon - bass Amy Olsner, Elizabeth Donahue - vocals, percussion Emily Breines - violin

  • Influences

    Elvis Costello, Paul Simon, Aimee Mann, Sufjan Stevens, Shawn Colvin, Sarah Harmer, Odetta, Peter Gabriel, Duran Duran

  • Sounds Like

    please take a listen

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