CARRIE RODRIGUEZ BAND:
Carrie - Tenor Guitar/Mandobird/Fiddle
Hans Holzen - Electric Guitar
Kyle Kegerreis - Bass
Eric Platz - Drums
Javier Vercher - Keyboard/Sax
OTHER POSSIBLE INCARNATIONS MAY INCLUDE:
Greg Leisz - Pedal Steel Guitar
Malcolm Burn - Piano
Influences
Bill Frisell, Lucinda Williams, Hank Williams, Bruce Molsky, Walter Hyatt, Tim O'Brien, Emmylou Harris, Ali Farka Toure, R.L. Burnside, David Rodriguez, Leonard Cohen, Alejandro Escovedo, Howlin' Wolf, Los Lobos, Eva Garza y mucho mucho mas...
Back Porch is proud to announce the release of Carrie Rodriguez's She Ain't Me on August 5th, 2008. She Ain't Me is Rodriguez's second record, following her debut solo record Seven Angels on a Bicycle. The new album is produced by Malcolm Burn and features Rodriguez on vocals, tenor guitar, fiddle, and electric mandolin, Hans Holzen on electric guitar, Greg Leisz on pedal steel, lap steel, acoustic & electric guitars, and electric mando guitar, Kyle Kegerreis on acoustic & electric basses, Aaron Comess on drums, and Malcolm Burn on piano, keyboards, Hammond B-3, programming, electric guitar, electric bass.
Not yet 30, and with a critically-acclaimed solo record and several well-received duet records in her wake, the classically trained singer/songwriter has just begun flexing her artistic muscles, still figuring out how far her talents will take her. If you’re looking for someone playing it safe and sticking to tried-and-true ways of music making, as the title of Rodriguez’s daring new album aptly states, SHE AIN’T ME.
“Because I took some chances, wrote with some new people and actually co-wrote most of the songs on the album, it’s very different,” Rodriguez notes.
The songs on SHE AIN’T ME, Rodriguez’s second solo outing for Manhattan/Back Porch, come from an introspective place, rife with self-assessment and questioning. “It comes from having to really look within yourself when you’re forced to be alone, and to not be afraid of that process,” Rodriguez says. “Taking some time off from the road this year to write allowed me to do some growing and reflecting that I often put aside when I’m touring all the time.”
Hello Carrie, Thanks for your Friendship! Really enjoy your site and Music. Hope you visit often, I surely will! Have a great week and Keep In Touch! Jim
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001
Where traditions are not so rare; Sea, country and works scent the air; A multitude of monuments, Planted tubs and patterned pavements.
The longish pedestrian malls; The remnants of defensive walls; Historic buildings are a gauge Of the respect for heritage.
Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shields; Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; Romantic-ruin go-betweens.
Rivers in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, And crossed by practical delights - Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.
Fine churches headed at Durham; Football kits ad infinitum; Kept castles - one for study; Masonry behind masonry.
And, with moulding-works out that way, It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?