- Kudos from Robert Earl Keen and Terri Hendrix

Charleston Post and Courier - "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."


Pens Eye View - "What other artist right now should people be watching out for?"
Terri Hendrix - "Adam Carroll…a poet…as is Sam Baker."

Adam Carroll Words and Music - Steve Circeo, Texas Music Times

"Every so often I'll stumble across an artists that makes me wonder why I'd never listened to him before. I mean, I'd heard of Adam Carroll. People had told me he was good and that I should check him out. But, ya know, sometimes I just don't have room in my life for yet another artist, so I let him slide off my scope for a couple years. When I saw that he was going to be song-swapping at Casbeers on a Thursday night with one of my favorites, Susan Gibson, I decided it was time to finally catch an Adam Carroll show. By the time it was over, I was so sorry, felt so guilty I hadn't seen this guy sooner, that I bought all three of his records right after the show, and turned him down when he tried to give me a special deal on the three-pack. "I'm sure they're worth the full price," I said. I was wrong. They are worth far more than that ..."            Read full article here

- Linda Ray, No Depression

"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, "With song pacing and a voice reminiscent of John Prine and an active imagination and slightly twisted sense of humor that likely has the ghost of Townes Van Zandt smiling from the clouds, Carroll is making marks on the international troubadour road."

- M.V. Moorehead, Get Out, Tempe AZ

"...Carroll's modesty is suspicious when it comes from a talent with such startling promise. Both of Carroll's CD's are studded with folksy gems -- heartfelt ballads that flash with sly wit and passages of complex, alternative rhyme, backed up by rambunctious strumming and harmonica riffs that inevitably recall early Dylan. Factor in clean cut good looks and the guy becomes positively galling."

- Christopher Hess, Austin Chronicle SXSW Sleepers

"There could be no finer young man to carry the mantle of classic Texas singer-songwriter than Austin's Adam Carroll. He wields his acoustic guitar and harmonica as proficiently as any crusty ol' troubadour, and his latest release, Looking Out the Screen Door, is nothing short of outstanding." (SXSW Showcase @ Hard Rock Cafe, 10pm) k Cafe, 10pm)

- Michael Corcoran, Austin American-Statesman

"Carroll looks to be the latest great Texas songwriter to graduate from Townes Van Zandt State..John Prine with a big dose of Butch Hancock."

- Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News

"South of Town reveals smart, quirky, very Dylanesque songs-often complete with self-accompaniment on wheezy harmonica-with roots deep in Mr. Carroll's East Texas homeland."