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Carrie Rodriguez starts recording new disc

Tuesday, December 4, 2007 – Carrie Rodriguez started recording her second solo album this week with producer Malcolm Burn (Emmylou Harris, Kaki King). The album, as yet untitled - will be her Manhattan/EMI Records debut.

The disc is may be released in late May/early June in North America (US and Canada) and in September in the United Kingdom.

Rodriguez, who released albums with Chip Taylor, previously released "Seven Angels on a Bicycle" in 2006 on Taylor's TrainWreck Records label.

Rodriguez also has a track featured on "Like A Hurricane - Tribute to Neil Young" mounted on the cover of the UK music magazine, Uncut. She plays "Cortez the Killer."

Rodriguez will do a few concerts in February and March. Dates currently on the calendar are:
Feb. 14 Zumbrota, Minn. Carnegie Library
Feb. 15 Milwaukee Pabst Theater / WUWM Event (& live broadcast)
Feb. 16 Chicago Shubas
Feb. 17-19 Green Bay WI Main Casino Lounge/Oneida Casino
Feb. 20 St. Louis To be announced
Feb. 21 Memphis North American Folk Alliance Conference
Feb. 23 Lexington KY Woodsongs taping
March 13 - 15 Austin SXSW Music & Media Conference
July 11 - 12 Winnipeg Folk Festival

A British tour is on tap for September with a North American Tour for the remainder of 2008.


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CD review - Lola There had to be some trepidation when 15 years into her career, Carrie Rodriguez decidedly emphasized her Latina heritage and incorporated several Spanish songs on her latest record. The Texas-born Rodriguez didn't grow up speaking Spanish (she picked it up from her ex-husband). Seven previous solo releases (two were live) and her early career collaboration with songwriter Chip Taylor, a Spanish-infused album seemed, well, foreign to an older audience comfortable with her fiddling and alt. ...
CD review - Give Me All You Got Given her remarkable apprenticeship in the company of veteran singer/songwriter Chip Taylor, and, following that, an acclaimed series of solo outings that brought stardom on her own, the bar was set exceptionally high for "Give Me All You Got." Her last release, "Love and Circumstance," found her taking a momentary detour via an impressive collection of covers, but even so, it makes her return to original material all the more auspicious. Fortunately, Rodriguez takes that ...
Despite having a respectable music past, Carrie Rodriguez is an artist without moorings. On All the Rain, recorded in 2003 with mentor Chip Taylor, Rodriguez sang, self-mockingly, "Didn't they tell you/There's something wrong with her accent?" On her fourth solo album, the accent - and perhaps the self-awareness that line betrayed - is all but gone, locked away in the vaults, presumably, until Rodriguez is ready to release a retrospective on her career. If she hasn't ...


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