ADAM & CHRIS CARROLL
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ADAM CARROLL
Carroll grew up in Tyler, Texas, which he describes as "pretty southern" compared to other Lone Star habitats, in the '70s and '80s. This led him to identify with great southern bards like Flannery O'Connor and Lucinda Williams, even if he felt a bit out of place in his hometown.“I had a few friends, but I was very shy—still am,” he explains. “But I was pretty good at reading, so I tended to live in my head. I was kind of imagining writing stories for myself.”Music was a constant in the Carroll household. Adam’s mom is a musician, while his dad had a killer record collection—John Prine, Johnny Cash, Jimmie Rodgers, and the like. Adam took piano lessons and sang in a choir, but when he purchased Neil Young’s Harvest as a senior at a North Carolina boarding school, he developed a fervent desire to play guitar.That itch would get scratched at Tyler Junior College, where, Carroll recalls, “there was a really good guitar teacher, Frank Kimlicko.” Carroll worked in a coffee shop near campus that featured live folk music, and his appreciation for Prine deepened. When he went to see a Prine show at the Majestic Theatre in Dallas, Carroll says, “I couldn’t believe how good he was. He was the first artist I saw live who met every expectation I had of a performer.”Eventually, observers would come to say the same of Carroll. But it would take awhile for him to find his comfort zones.
CHRIS CARROLL
As a vocalist, she has the capacity to add just the right mixture of dark and light shades to whatever the canvas of words and music call for in any given song,” says her husband. “As a writer, she’s sensitive to the story in a song, and she’s not afraid to follow the poetry wherever it is meant to go. I can say that I’m a better musician and writer for having shared the stage with her, and a better person for having married her. She’s a treasure.”
Renowned Texas songwriter, Terri Hendrix says of Chris, “She performs like she writes. She’s funny, quirky, introspective, authentic, sincere, and all woman. Her vocals pack a punch or land soft and tender. Her Canadian and Texas roots have intertwined into the fabric of her songwriting making her all the more unique at what she does and how she does it. Chris isn’t trying to be anything other than herself. This is her charm. She’s the real deal.”
Or, as O’Connor puts it, “Everything that girl says sounds like a song.”
