Want to hear a good story? Listen to any Adam Carroll song. His Texas peers sure have, over and over again, and are quick to heap superlatives on a stoic artist whose compositions provide a solitary glimpse into a verdant imagination.
Jon Dee Graham says Carroll “may be the best songwriter that Texas ever produced,” while Robert Earl Keen proclaims, “If all were right with the world, Adam Carroll would be the Townes Van Zandt of our age.”
“His lyrics are like a good book: They take you somewhere and leave you better than they found you,” says Terri Hendrix.
Husband and wife Adam and Chris Carroll have been touring together since their 2013 marriage, initially as co-headliners before developing into a popular Americana-styled duo. With their music and as a duo they demonstrate that musical soul mates do in fact exist with a delightful synergy of two distinctive and soulful voices.
Chris says that working with her husband, however, has proven to be a sort of fusion between dream and reality. “It feels like there was something missing that whole time,” she says. “I was terrified to write with him in the beginning. I was intimidated. I knew who I was married to. I’m crazy about his songwriting.”
The feeling is mutual: The Carrolls just collaborated on an album, Good Farmer, that sees Adam graciously—and shrewdly— yielding lead-vocal duties more often than not to his wife, who instills a certain verve into one of his best songs, “Hi-Fi Love,” that’s enough to dampen the edges of your grin with teardrops.
Hear Adam and Chris Carroll at Susanna’s Kitchen on Thursday, August 18. Doors open at 7 p.m. with the performance starting at 7:30. Tickets: $25 (sold only at the door.) Come for dinner: pizza, tamales, nachos and yummy Sugar Shack pie. Wimberley United Methodist Church, Corner of RR 12 and CR 1492 Proceeds benefit Barnabas Connection, Bright Beginnings Preschool and other nonprofits.
For information go to www.wimberleyumc. org or call Perry at 512.914.1703.
Hear Adam and Chris Carroll at Susanna’s Kitchen on Thursday, August 18. Doors open at 7 p.m. with the performance starting at 7:30.
