Hayes Carll is an American song-writing great
Anyone who doesn’t know about Hayes Carll yet need only take a look at the company he keeps:
The Americana Music Association’s Top Ten Album List of 2011:
- Hayes Carll, KMAG YOYO /Lost Highway
- Lucinda Williams, Blessed / Lost Highway
- Steve Earle, I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive / New West
- Alison Krauss, Paper Airplane / Rounder
- Emmylou Harris, Hard Bargain / Nonesuch
- Gregg Allman, Low Country Blues
- Jason Isbell, Here We Rest
- John Hiatt, Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns
- Decemberists, The King is Dead / Capitol
- Band of Heathens, Top Hat Crown & The Clapmaster’s Son
Home for Hayes Carll is Austin, Texas. The 34-year old singer-songwriter was raised a sixth-generation Texan. Finding inspiration early on from Kerouac and Dylan, he hit the road after college, honing his craft playing to the locals in Texas coastal towns like Crystal Beach and Galveston. His first two indie albums, Flowers and Liquor (2002) and Little Rock (2004), garnered an enthusiastic and ever-expanding audience, as did his engaging live shows, sparked by Carll’s humorous storytelling and between-song patter. Along the way he has written with some of his songwriting role models, including Guy Clark, and Ray Wylie Hubbard, with whom he collaborated on “Drunken Poet’s Dream,” one of the attention-getting tracks on Trouble in Mind. Of their kinship, Hubbard said, “I always like writing with Hayes, because he’s fearless.”
Don’t miss this rare chance to see an American song-writing great up close and personal, in this special solo-acoustic performance!