Live Music: Hayes Carll
| Date/Time: | Saturday, 10 Oct 2015 at 9:00 pm |
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| Location: | The Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | $12 Students / $18 Public |
| URL: | http://www.sub.iastate.edu/en/calendar/ |
| Contact: | Jim Brockpahler |
| Phone: | 515-294-2772 |
| Channel: | Student Union Board |
| Categories: | Arts, performances Student activities |
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Carll connects with music lovers across genres lines. Playing rock clubs and honkytonks, Bonnaroo, Stones Fest, SXSW and NXNE, he and his band merge a truculent singer/songwriter take that combines Ray Wylie Hubband's lean freewheeling squalor with Todd Snider's brazen Gen Y reality and a healthy dose of love amongst unhealthy people.
After releasing Flowers & Liquor in 2002, Carll was voted the Best New Artist of 2002 by The Houston Post. He would go on to release Little Rock on his own Highway 87 label, which became the first self-owned project to the top the Americana charts.
"It comes down to the songs and the people," he says. "You write about what you see, the things that cross your mind... and then you wanna get out there and play it back to 'em. You kinda know how you're doing when you see how the people respond."
Maybe it's the influences - Kerouac, Dylan, Guy Clark, John Prine, Hubbard... Maybe it's the fact that somebody has to say something... Maybe it's just the fact that some people are born to play, but for whatever reason, over a decade into a recording career, Hayes Carll shows no signs of having arrived at his creative apex. Each album expands on his already extreme vintage country, extreme thumping bad road boogie, extreme heartbroken ache - and finds new ways to take on the fate of the nation.