Hayes Carll – Swallow Hill Sat. Jan 28th
Saturday, January 28 at 8 pm
L2 Arts & Culture Center
Hayes Carll hasn’t been resting on his laurels since topping critics polls and winning awards for his 2008 album, Trouble in Mind. Instead, he’s been on the road nearly nonstop, and along the way he’s been inspired to write a crop of new tunes that the have been called “a layman’s take on our country – a snapshot of America in some small way.” The result: the sharply drawn collection KMAG YOYO (and Other American Stories). Fiery rock, twangy country, pensive folk and even a touch of gospel comprise KMAG YOYO’s sonic palette, and Hayes will be sharing that palette unplugged when he arrives in Denver.
His 2008 album Trouble in Mind won raves from such pundits Entertainment Weekly’s Ken Tucker, agreed saying Carll, “was the creator of one of the year’s best country albums.” Carll’s sardonic, yet catchy “She Left Me for Jesus” raised the ire of conservative radio programmers and TV evangelists, but drove Don Imus to declare it “the greatest country song ever written.”
The New York Times recently proclaimed that Houston, Texas, native Robert Ellis sounds “equally inspired by Jackson Browne and George Jones.” Not a bad reference point for an artist only twenty-two years old. Photographs, the young songwriter’s second release, is an impressive and diverse concept album split between five breathtaking folk songs and five soon-to-be country standards. Listening to Photographs, one finds it difficult to pigeonhole Robert Ellis. It’s even harder to remember that he’s barely just begun.
hayescarll.com | robertellismusic.com
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