SEVEN (7) DETROIT MUSIC AWARD NOMINATIONS 2009 - now Carolyn's new album is coming out in November, 2009 entitled: HONESTY
Carolyn is blessed to have worked with Patti Smith, Jackson Smith, Scott Dailey, David McMurray, Joey Mazzola, Jason Schaller, Vinnie Dombrowski, Rayse Biggs, Mario Resto, The Ragbirds, John Madison Detroit Symphony, Toko Shiiki/October Babies, Eimas, Was (Not Was), Iggy & Stooges, Ramones, Buster Marbury, Jervonny Collier, Kate Hart, The Slits and so much more. Playing Patti Smith's Meltdown with Patti and her band & Steve Earle, London, U.K., 2005, Carolyn toured Italy & London in November 2006. Carolyn's been playing Midwest region, Canada, Europe this year - going back to Europe 2010 for Tour 4.
2009 HONESTY - the new CD - coming shortly - 2008 CAROLYN STRIHO IS THIS ME? -----2006 C. STRIHO (recorded live at 54 Sound/England and Italy) ------2006 DETROIT MUSIC AWARDS COMPILATION w/HARD LESSONS, HOWLING DIABLOS --- 2005 PATTI SMITH, STEVE EARLE, CAROLYN STRIHO, live in London ---- 2001 SECRETS AND SPACE w/DAVID MCMURRAY AND LUIS RESTO ------ 1997 REMINISCING ABOUT THE FUTURE
1995 DREAMS CAN BE YOUR FRIENDS
Influences
THE WORLD
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Gary Blackwell, Motor City Rocks: "Kudos to everyone involved in staging the Fred ‘Sonic’ Smith memorial show at the Magic Stick last Friday night, which celebrated Smith’s life and music via the recent 10 year anniversary of his passing... the biggest crowd-pleasing performance of the evening was Carolyn Striho’s acoustic take on Fred and Patti Smith’s “People Have the Power,” performed with Jackson Smith on rhythm guitar."
Ralph Valdez, WDET-FM Detroit: “The music that she’s been doing has always had a great Detroit feel to it. Now something more is happening, becoming this blend of hard Detroit sounds with more pop elements…”
All Music Guide/Internet: “Striho writes gorgeous, psychedelic pop songs that come from the silver edge of midnight, aching anthems of poetry and longing…”
Jim McFarlin, Metro Times: “Striho has been an irrepressible attraction on Detroit’s musical landscape, noted for her impassioned live sets. She’s living for today, which makes her future look extraordinarily bright. After years of experimenting, and eclectic shows in Detroit, Toronto, and Osaka, Japan, Carolyn's songs reveal the budding awareness of personal evolution."
SOME NEW MUSIC FROM THE CD WILL BE ON HERE NOVEMBER 2009 - NEXT WEEK.... ahhhh - With 7 Detroit Music Award Nominations 2009! Carolyn is a Citizen of the World, a Detroit musician respected as a songwriter, singer, poet, Carolyn's live shows blast classical, folk, rock, pop, cabaret, jazz & dreamy psychedelia, vibrant & bewitching - bold, hypnotic, smart! On a Steinway grand piano or hot red keyboard, Carolyn's tribal dance melodies compel. This is a strong, bold statement of musicianship in a studied composer with style, passion and grace.
..Carolyn Striho | Create Your Badge ..From the Metro Times, review of Is This Me?
by Bill Holdship 2/27/2008
It takes courage to title a new song "Promised Land" in 2008. Carolyn Striho's "Promised Land" may be the one that best expresses its message via its mood in no uncertain terms. It isn't at all reminiscent of Springsteen's hope-in-the-face-of-despair anthem in its tone, nor even the cynical but still humorous "Promised Land" by Chuck Berry (Elvis Presley).. Striho's "Promised Land" is dissonant electro-pop, with frightening stream-of-consciousness lyrics, appropriate for the zeitgeist following eight years of Bush! Is This Me? is exceptionally good. The internationally renowned Detroit artist's voice is, at turns, warm, rich, idiosyncratic and, at times, just plain (in a good way) eccentric. "Tiara" opens things on a violin-driven, downbeat, almost mournful but still melodically beautiful note. "Ocean" is so Patti Smith influenced in its trippiness and mid-song chanting that it almost could be Patti Smith. And that's meant as a compliment — a big one. "Enchante" opens with a calliope-driven instrumental musical interlude before the lyrics kick in and it becomes a clash between the sounds of Barnum & Bailey and gypsys, tramps and thieves.
Good stuff. Four-and-a-half out of five, only because it leaves you wanting to hear more from this Motor City maven.
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