"Hailed by Lucinda Williams, recruited by Alejandro Escovedo, and nurtured by Lyle Lovett, singer-songwriter Carrie Rodriguez has rapidly emerged as one of the most compelling new voices on the roots-rock scene." - Andrew Gilbert / The Boston Globe
The critically acclaimed An Acoustic Café Evening Tour is back in 2012 featuring return performances by Carrie and Erin McKeown (January), Pieta Brown (February). This year Kelly Joe Phelps will join them on the tour. see the tour dates >>
"I have to say I am very impressed. She's got something unique in her voice that's very subtle and a little smoky and sweet. She's got a refreshingly spunky attitude to go along with it." - Lucinda Williams
"There's a real earthiness in both Carrie's singing and fiddle. She's hot and steamy one minute and pure Nashville the next."
- MOJO (January 2007)
"…Rodriguez is a triple-threat artist who sounds more formidable with each successive release." - Gary Graff / Billboard (Critics Pick) (August 9, 2008)
"Fiddle" and "deadly" don't usually appear in the same sentence together – unless you're talking about Carrie Rodriguez. Austin-born and bred and ready to take on the world. She closed out the night with some attitude on stage...she brought the crowd to their knees with her songs of love and regret, and a bit of vengeance." - Jason Claypool / Denver Post (May, 27 2009)
"...Rodriguez's flexibility is her saving grace, and she shows it off subtly: Her voice can go from dramatic to flippant on songs that span from country to gospel influences, or to shiny pop singles." - The Onion
"If there was such a genre called "post-Americana", I think Carrie Rodriguez would be the poster child. In fact, she may have invented the genre without meaning to or knowing it. For those non-music geeks, the label "post" usually refers to indie rock that is darker, has crunchy guitar riffs and typically lots of angst." - Ian Morales / Austin Vida (December 2, 2009)
"With She Ain't Me, Rodriguez further develops her own musical identity as a skilled purveyor of sophisticated twang." - Michael Berick / LA Weekly (July 30, 2008)
"She is a refreshingly honest singer, decidedly unflashy in her warm, direct alto—none of the baby-bird coos, old-hag warbles, or precious-me little-girl affectations so common in female Americana artists these days. Instead, she can bring subtlety and power with equal, winning effect." - Popmatters.com, May 2010
"A tireless, gracious and versatile performer. Usually sounding delicate and demure on record, Rodriguez turned into a full-blown, passionate chica on "La Punalada Trapera," eliciting whoops, hollers and whistles from an adoring audience in Boulder." - NoDepression.com, April 2010
"It wasn't until her third solo album, this year's "Love and Circumstance," that Rodriguez found her own personality, adding a toughness to her voice's sweetness…she emerges as a superb interpretive singer, not only milking melodies for all their pleasure but also revealing new implications in the lyrics." - Geoffrey Himes, The Washington Post (October 29, 2010)
We Still Love Our Country Digital release (February 1, 2011), Limited Edition EP, features Carrie performing songs with Ben Kyle of Romantica. The album is produced by Carrie and Ben with Lee Townsend (Bill Frisell, Loudon Wainwright III, John Scofield, Charlie Hunter), who produced Carrie's last solo album Love & Circumstance.
The New Bye & Bye: Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez (October 12, 2010): The album features four new songs and highlights from their past collaborations.
Love & Circumstance (April 13th, 2010): Produced by Lee Townsend and featuring her world-class touring band with guest appearances from Buddy Miller, Bill Frisell, Greg Leisz and Aiofe O'Donovan. For this project, Carrie performs works by songwriters including: Hank Williams, John Hiatt, Richard Thompson, Buddy & Julie Miller, M. Ward, Lucinda Williams, Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings, David Rodriguez (her father), and Ava Garza (her great Aunt). "This is an album you don't want to miss. (And Carrie is on tour now, you don't want to miss that either.)" - NoDepression.com
She Ain't Me (2008): "Carrie Rodriguez plays fiddle on only three songs for her second solo album…Yet her fiddler's vocabulary of old modal melodies centers her songs about faraway loves and spiritual prospects, bringing concision and gravity to every one of them. Ms. Rodriguez chose collaborators well: she wrote with Mary Gauthier, Gary Louris from the Jayhawks, Dan Wilson from Semisonic and the producer Malcolm Burn, who enfolds her Americana with resonant electric guitars and steadfast march beats. Behind the sorrows and longing is a determination that's grounded, implicitly, in tradition." - Jon Pareles, The New York Times
Has successfully shared bills with Chip Taylor (with whom she has collaborated on five full albums and an EP), Lucinda Williams, Alejandro Escovedo (also playing in his band), John Prine, Bruce Hornsby, Los Lonely Boys and many others.
Carrie was honored to perform two of her songs as arranged exclusively for the Austin Youth Orchestra at their annual Spring Concert in Austin, TX on March 7th, 2010. As a youth, Carrie was an AYO member.
Roots Music Association's 2008 & 2009 Folk Songwriter Of The Year
National TV and radio appearances include: Austin City Limits (PBS) (July 2008); Mountain Stage (NPR) (October 2008); World Café Live (NPR) (January 2010) and Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour (2008) among many others and recently featured on the cover of Pollstar magazine (October 2008), Maxim online (February 2010) and Extra (Fox) (April 2010).
