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Adam Carroll - Artist of the Month
Broken Jukebox
"His songs have a way of immediately connecting with the listener and at the same time, being completely beyond anything we could have written ourselves. The characters in his songs live in our neighborhoods but they are so elegantly presented within the song that it makes them seem larger than life.
Once you add in Carroll’s fine guitar and harmonica playing and his off kilter vocal delivery, you have an artist that in my opinion can hold his own in any songwriting circle, no matter how high up the ladder you go. Comparisons to John Prine and Townes Van Zandt seem to come at him from all directions and they are absolutely well deserved for once. I would throw others in the mix as well, Guy Clark, John Hiatt, and the list could go on. Basically think of all the writers that get every word right and go ahead and place Carroll in their midst."
Link to full article at Broken Jukebox
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Blog CD Review Hard Times
(Sherryjane Cooke) New Braunfels & Texas Hill Country Music Examiner
"If the Gulf Coast doesn't have a theme song, then it will be found on "Hard Times." ...
"It is that beautiful and charming homage and a hearty salute to those Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coast, down home, survivors. Music can help heal. "...
"This artist has me amazed in his talent to wow audiences with his songs, his versatility and his steady climb to take his rightful place in Texas Country Music... at the top. With seven top charted albums, Adam has proven
his musical mastery, .."
Link to full articles at New Braunfels & Texas Hill Country Music Examiner here AND here
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CD Review Live at Flipnotics
(Jim Caligiuri) Austin Chronicle - Texas Platters
"Among singer-songwriters, Adam Carroll is probably Austin's best-kept secret. His tunes are marvels of economy; .. constantly inventive and decidedly offbeat .. Live at Flipnotics offers a typically low-key yet inviting overview of his career. With Scrappy Jud Newcomb on guitar, he sparkles .. "
Link to full article at Austin Chronicle
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CD Review Live At Flipnotics
(William Michael Smith) Houston Press
"Adam Carroll just released Live At Flipnotics, and it .. makes a perfect .. introduction to one of the hippest songwriters on the Texas music landscape."
Link to full article at Houston Press
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Carroll Hits All The Right Notes With Live Album
(Stewart Smith) Tyler Morning Telegraph
"Adam Carroll's "Live at Flipnotics" album is one of the best records I've listened to in a long time. .. a month after I put "Live at Flipnotics" in my car's CD player, it had yet to be removed. You can now officially call me hooked. Carroll .. has delivered a live album that one could essentially equate to that of ...a "greatest hits" compilation as it spans his career .. performed with "Scrappy" Jud Newcomb, Beaver Nelson and special guest, Matt The Electrician. The result is an album that is lively, thoughtful, playful, insightful and even introspective."
Link to full article at Tyler Morning Telegraph
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Live Show Review -
Adam Carroll & Michael O'Connor - Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe - Galveston, TX
(Daniel Barker) Houston Music Review
"This night was a treat for any fan of the Texas singer-songwriter genre. It is apparent that these two gentlemen are friends and inspire one another to elevate their beloved craft of songwriting .. each of these men are solid musicians as well."
Link to full article at Houston Music Review
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CD Review Hard Times w/Michael O'Connor
(Jim Caligiuri) Austin Chronicle
"Hard Times finds Carroll alternating vocals with Michael O'Connor, best known as the guitarist for Slaid Cleaves and Susan Gibson. A compendium of sketches of "Gulf Coast Losers" as O'Connor calls them, its mostly co-written material only intensifies Carroll's straightforward nature. Most will be immediately drawn to the sad but humorous "Billy Gibbons' Beard," as well as O'Connor doing his best Townes Van Zandt impression on "Sleepy Town," and Carroll's new Depression-era title track with a mischievous twist. O'Connor's raspy vocals and Gabe Rhodes' light production are ideal for these tunes of the down and out. Hard Times never sounded this good."
Link to full article at Austin Chronicle
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CD Review Hard Times w/Michael O'Connor
(Jeff Giddens) Sounds Country, No Depression
".. Hard Times, the new collaborative effort between the two, stands as a complete song cycle about one thing: Gulf Coast losers. Carroll has made a career of writing about wretched people who live off the beaten path, while O'Connor is better known for being a sideman for Slaid Cleaves and Susan Gibson, among others. This record finds them writing together on most of the songs, revealing the intricacies of those who live on the south coast of Texas and Louisiana. .."
Link to full articles at Sounds Country and No Depression
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Robert Earl Keen Recommends Adam Carroll
(Devin Grant) The Post and Courier, Charleston, NC
The Post and Courier - Preview: "Have you heard any new artists recently that knocked you out?"
Robert Earl Keen: "I'm not a music maven, so I can't really say who's good and who's bad. I know a few people that I think are underrated. There's a guy named Adam Carroll that I've known for two or three years, and he writes some really clever, almost John Prine-like songs, and then he writes some just beautiful (descriptions) of things that happen in Texas."
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CD Review Far Away Blues
Miles Of Music
"Texas troubadour Adam Carroll has been compared to a variety of songwriting talent, with folks like John Prine and Bob Dylan placed on either end of the spectrum. Carroll's own natural ease and good nature allows him a singular and distinct place in the rich history of Texas singer/songwriters. Working again with producer Lloyd Maines (Dixie Chicks, Pat Green, Joe Ely), he presents an open, crisply produced collection of country-folk that's both intimate and honest. The live presence of his performances is brought forward as he calls out, with his native drawl, the title of each song before setting to task on his acoustic guitar. Moments of sublime tenderness are balanced with ramblin and rollin songs filled with local color and regional humor. Greater use of supporting instruments such as Dobro, mandolin, piano and even strings, add more color, raising the bar a bit over his previous three studio outings. Also, it doesn't hurt to have the great Ray Wylie Hubbard on board for a co-write and duet the tune with the great sing-a-long chorus, Last Day of Grace. (Blue Corn Music)"
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CD Review Far Away Blues
(Linda Ray) No Depression Magazine
"Adam Carroll might be peddling short stories to the New Yorker today had he not fallen into a rock n' roll fantasy, namely the notion that he could get girls with a guitar. He's not saying if it worked, but literature's loss is music's gain. Carroll's keen observations of the commonplace yield characters as familiar as the next cab driver, or the guy slinging suds in the coffee shop kitchen. With marvelous economy, the former student of poetry and creative writing imparts a vital sense of character and motivation, like, say, Faulkner or Steinbeck, or, for that matter, Guy Clark."
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