Life & Circumstance, New Tourdates, "Big Love" Video, and all kinds of stuff!

  Love

----and----

Circumstance 

& 

Much Much More

~July 21, 2010~

Tour News:

The second leg of the Love and Circumstance Tour kicks off tonight in Portland, OR followed by shows this month in Belingham, WA; Seattle, WA; Crested Butte, CO; Taos, NM; Fruita, CO; Snowmass, CO; Salt Lake City, UT; and Boise, ID. 

Hope to see you at the show!

Three dates supporting the legendary John Prine have been set for late August.

UK club dates & Holland theater tour dates with very special guests Romantica scheduled Sept 17-Oct 11.  

Carrie will return to Europe in late March/early April to perform in more cities.

Due to the overwhelming success of the inaugural tour this past January featuring Carrie and her friends Ben Sollee and Erin McKeown, the second annual “An Acoustic Café  Evening” Tour will return in February 2011Romantica. More details to be announced in September. with very special guests

On The Radio:

"Life and Circumstance"  - A one-hour Carrie Rodriguez Radio Special hosted by Alejandro Escovedo is being prepared for release to radio in early August. In addition to the conversation/interview, it will feature live performances from her record release show in NYC at Joe's Pub in April and from her performance in May at The Pabst Theater in Milwaukee. 

Love & Circumstance (album) at AAA & Americana Radio...

AAA non-com – Love & Circumstance reached 26* on the AAA Non-com charts
Americana - Love & Circumstance reached #3 on the Americana chart.
Love & Circumstance also reached #2 on the monthly Folk Music chart.                    


Over 180 “specialty” shows from around the country played tracks from the new album.  

Video Update:

The "Big Love" video shot in June looks GREAT!  It will debut on Alternate Root TV in late July/early August.  Will keep you posted.

 

New Live Video of “La Punalada Trapera”can be watched at CarrieTV on Youtube. 

Shot during her record release performance at Joe's Pub in NYC on April 13, 2010. 

Check it out:

 

In The Media:

Carrie will be featured on Extra TV this month (TBA).  Here's a sneak peak clip of her performance.  Extra also taped an Interview/Performance with Carrie in Spanish for Extra TV en Espanol which will air this week 

Mas Carrie en Espanol:

Carrie will be featured in the July issue of People en Espanol.  Be sure to pick up your copy at the newsstand.

  

Music News and More:                                                                                                        

Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez - "The New Bye & Bye, The Best of the Trainwreck Years (2002-2007)" - will be released in the US, Canada & Europe on Oct 12th via, you guessed it, Trainwreck Records and it features four (4) new songs.

Carrie will be a featured vocalist on two tracks off the forthcoming Los Lonely Boys - Live Acoustic album (as yet untitled) - Alejandro Escovedo will also be joining Carrie and The Texican Trio on "Heaven" and "Beast of Burden". The tracks were recorded in February this year while Carrie and Alejandro performed with the boys as part of The Brotherhood Tour.  Album is set to release in the U.S. early October of this year. 

Carrie Rodriguez/Ben Kyle (of Romantica) Duet Album will be available in Feb. 2011 exclusively at the “An Acoustic Café  Evening” Tour shows.

 Love and Circumstance will be released in Holland via Munich Records.
 

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"“Rodriguez has taken a handful of classic tracks from her genre and truly made them her own. ... what makes the album is her sweet yet powerful vocals."" — Daniela Garcia, Venus Zine

"a superior collection of Americana-flavored country-pop, delivered with exquisite taste, and proves a fine showcase for Rodriguez’ marvelous voice and interpretive skills. Recommended!
--- John Taylor, Blog Critics

" “Taken as a whole, the album is a slow burn reminiscent of Emmylou Harris’ Wrecking Ball. ...the best showcase of Carrie Rodriguez’s talent to date.” " — Juli Thanki, Music & Musicians

"...simply an understated triumph. Grade: A " — Glide Magazine

"Taken as a whole, the album is a slow burn reminiscent of Emmylou Harris’ Wrecking Ball. ...the best showcase of Carrie Rodriguez’s talent to date." — Juli Thanki, Music & Musicians

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UPCOMING SHOWS:

Green Frog Cafe Bellingham, WA Fri Jul 23 10 07:00 PM
Tractor Tavern Seattle, WA Sat Jul 24 10 09:30 PM
Center For The Arts Crested Butte, CO Mon Jul 26 10 07:00 PM
Three20South Breckenridge, CO Mon Jul 26 10 08:00 PM
Solar Center Taos, NM Tue Jul 27 10 07:00 PM
Colorado Riverfront Concert Grand Junction, CO Wed Jul 28 10 07:30 PM
Jazz Aspen Snowmass Snowmass Village, CO Thu Jul 29 10 08:00 PM
Burt’s Tiki Lounge Albuquerque, NM Fri Jul 30 10 07:00 PM
Egyptian Theater Boise, ID Sat Jul 31 10 08:00 PM
The Lodge at Redfish Lake Stanley, ID Sun Aug 01 10 08:00 PM
Panida Theatre Sandpoint, ID Wed Aug 04 10 08:00 PM
Top Hat Missoula, MT Thu Aug 05 10 08:00 PM
Lindley Park Bozeman, MT Fri Aug 06 10 07:00 PM
Mangy Moose Teton Village, WY Sat Aug 07 10 07:00 PM
Avalon Theatre Grand Junction, CO Tue Aug 17 10 08:00 PM

For more info please visit:  www.carrierodriguez.com

"GREEN PASTURES", DAR WILLIAMS, SARA WATKINS, CARRIE RODRIGUEZ

Girl Power - Kansas City with Grace Potter, Dar Williams, and more...

Review | Grace Potter, Dar Williams and other women put down long roots - KansasCity.com

By BILL BROWNLEE

Special to The Star

Featuring five distinct strains of American roots music, Thursday’s lineup at Crossroads KC promised to provide one of the summer’s most notable concerts.

What appeared appealing on paper, however, didn’t entirely come to fruition. The five-hour event served as a miniature festival. Headlined by rock ’n’ roll band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, the show also featured traditional folkie Dar Williams, singer-songwriter Carrie Rodriguez, bluegrass-based Sara Watkins, and local pop artist Julia Peterson.

Williams and Watkins are touring together. Otherwise, the rare grouping of talent represented a one-time event.

“What a cool bill,” Rodriguez marveled. “I’m honored to be a part of it. All these ladies can play the crap out of their instruments. It’s really inspiring.”

After a pleasant opening set of lilting soft rock by Kansas City-based Peterson, Watkins dazzled attentive listeners with an enchanting solo recital of folk and bluegrass.

“I grew up in a semi-sorta bluegrass kind of world,” Watkins said of her musical upbringing. Although the member of popular bluegrass act Nickel Creek played several instruments during her solo set, Watkins’ fiddle work was particularly memorable.

Filled with longing, Watkins’ expressive voice charmed on a delicate reading of “My Friend” and a haunting version of Tom Waits’ “Pony.”

She lightened the mood with sunny interpretations of the Stone Poneys hit “Different Drum” and Robert Earl Keen’s “Feeling Good Again.” A playful rendition of John Hartford’s “Long Hot Summer Days” was even better. With just violin, voice and the authoritative stomp of her foot, Watkins created a backwoods symphony.

Rodriguez also plays a mean fiddle, but the optimism of Watkins was replaced by Rodriguez’s fierce and unflinching perspective. She betrayed her Texas roots by opening with a cover of Townes Van Zandt’s “Rex’s Blues.”

As that lyric suggests, Rodriguez often sounded “alone and low as low can be.” “When I Heard Gypsy Davy Sing,” written by her father, David, and the original “Seven Angels on a Bicycle” were harrowing. In such moments, Rodriguez successfully combined the sensitivity of Texas troubadour Nanci Griffith and the tough street sensibility of New York’s Lou Reed.

Williams demonstrated why she’s become a mainstay on the contemporary folk circuit during her genial hourlong set.

Ongoing technical problems failed to diminish the strength of beloved material including “The Babysitter’s Here,” “The Christians and the Pagans,” “Spring Street” and “As Cool as I Am.” The accompaniment by keyboardist Bryn Roberts added a subtle sense of grandeur.

Subtlety is not an ingredient of Grace Potter and the Nocturnal’s steady climb to stardom. Its front woman looks like an Alberto Varga pinup model, and the band rocks as if it’s 1974.

Potter wails like an unhinged Steve Marriott, and the retro boogie is undeniably soulful. Although Potter and her four-piece band concluded their two-hour set well after midnight, the memory of the evening’s best moment lingered.

Rodriguez and Watkins joined Williams for a heavenly take on “Green Pastures.” “This is like an old radio show,” Williams said as Rodriguez and Watkins shared a microphone.

The full extent of their combined talent was fully realized on the gospel song. “First time ever together on stage — Carrie Rodriguez and Sara Watkins,” Williams later said.

The magical collaboration wasn’t appreciated by everyone. About half of the audience of about 400 treated the first four acts as nuisances to be endured before Potter performed. Distractions weren’t limited to the rude chatter of bipeds.

“The dog barks in time,” Watkins noted of unwelcome canine accompaniment. While the concert might have been better suited to a hushed theater, the cool temperature and rainbow-tinged sky were wondrously delightful. Rodriguez appreciated the setting.

“Oh,” she sighed. “Look at that sunset. Gorgeous!”

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/07/09/2073638/review-grace-potter-dar-williams.html#ixzz0tjD6acCZ

Acoustic Guitar: Carrie Rodriguez, Love and Circumstance

Carrie Rodriguez, Love and Circumstance By Celine Keating

Carrie Rodriguez doesn’t just cover the love songs in her fourth album, she inhabits them. The Austin, Texas, singer-songwriter grew up among musicians, studied violin at Berklee College of Music, plays fiddle, electric mandolin, and tenor guitar, and toured with Chip Taylor. That pedigree shows on Love and Circumstance, which has a big, polished sound rich in texture and instrumentation. Hans Holzen (guitar and mandolin) and Kyle Kegerreis (bass) are joined by guests Bill Frisell (guitar), Greg Leisz (lap steel), and Buddy Miller and Aoife O’Donovan (harmony vocals). Rodriguez’s voice is arresting whether she’s slowing down Lucinda Williams’s “Steal Your Love,” giving a fresh interpretation to Richard Thompson’s “Waltzing’s for Dreamers,” or belting it out on “Big Love” (Little Village). This is masterful musicianship, with primacy given to the guitars, which blend beautifully yet inhabit different spaces within the songs, so that the character of each—tremolo, acoustic, electric, tenor—shines. There are lovely touches on every cut, like the ecstatic single lines on “La Puñalda Trapera” that play up Rodriguez’s soulfulness or the way Frisell’s guitar dances jazzily around the single repeated notes chiming from Rodriguez’s mandolin on Hank Williams’s “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry.” A stunner. (Ninth Street Opus)

http://blogcritics.org/

Music Review: Carrie Rodriguez – Love And Circumstance

Author: John Taylor — Published: Jun 30, 2010 at 5:37 am

Read more: http://blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-carrie-rodriguez-love-and/##ixzz0stkuRPbY

Carrie Rodriguez would get props just for the song selections she’s chosen for her third solo outing. Hot on the heels of two discs peppered with her own compositions, Rodriguez has opted for an all-covers collection that showcases her emergence as a strong singer easily able to make any song her own.

And what songs they are! With material from the likes of Ry Cooder and John Hiatt, Lucinda Williams, Townes Van Zandt, Merle Haggard, and Hank Williams, Rodriguez exhibits exquisite taste in tunes. But as Love And Circumstance shows, she doesn’t just pick great songs – she knocks ‘em out of the park, with renditions that range from big and bold (“Big Love,” the disc’s opener, and “Wide River To Cross” that follows) to the shimmery melancholy of “I’m Not For Love.”

With sympathetic production courtesy of Lee Townsend, Rodriguez leads her working band - guitarist Hans Holzen, bassist Kyle Kegerreis, and drummer Eric Platz – with a sure and steady hand, her own instrumental contributions (tenor guitar, fiddle, and mandolin) a subtle but essential element in the musical tapestry. Guests include pedal steel wiz Greg Liesz and guitarist Doug Wamble, with Buddy Miller contributing harmony vocals on a handful.

They’re all love songs of one sort or another, and Rodriguez is primarily reflective throughout – though a few tracks feature crunching guitars, most arrangements are subtle and subdued, with Rodriguez’ voice, earthy and ethereal at the same time, given lots of space. She’s wistful on a poignant cover of her father’s “When I Heard Gypsy Dave Sing,” and sultry on Lucinda William’s “Steal Your Love.” The only tune that doesn’t quite work is her rather exaggerated take on “Today I Started Loving You Again” – admittedly a song covered so often it begs a unique approach, here Rodriguez’ breathy hesitation is a bit distracting. She takes control of “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” though, accompanied only by understated guitar and her own mandolin, and follows up with a stunning closer (“La Punalada Trapera”), sung in Spanish.

A little too laid back to break new ground, perhaps, but Love And Circumstance is nonetheless a superior collection of Americana-flavored country-pop, delivered with exquisite taste, and proves a fine showcase for Rodriguez’ marvelous voice and interpretive skills. Recommended!