Carl Carlton

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Carl Carlton (actually Karl Walter Ahlerich Buskohl ; born April 20, 1955 in Ihrhove , East Friesland ) is a German rock musician , composer and music producer who has played in leading international bands and has worked with world-famous musicians. His almost ten-year collaboration with Robert Palmer culminated in the Grammy- nominated album Drive , which was released in 2003, the year Palmer died. He has released four albums with his own band Carl Carlton & the Songdogs.

Carl Carlton

Life

Early career

Carlton grew up on his parents' farm in East Frisia . He has no siblings and both parents died early. At the age of 17 he left his homeland and went to the Netherlands to take part in the lively rock and pop scene. He played in well-known Dutch bands such as Herman Brood & His Wild Romance , Long Tall Ernie & The Shakers and Vitesse . From 1979 he also worked in the USA and gained fame on the east coast as the guitarist of the rock band Mink DeVille around the singer and composer Willy DeVille .

In the 80s Carlton played with Manfred Mann's Earthband and was best known in Germany as the guitarist, composer and producer of the two most famous German rock musicians, Peter Maffay and Udo Lindenberg . With Lindenberg he recorded six albums, with Maffay thirteen, eleven of which reached number 1 in the charts . Carlton married around this time and became a father for the first time. His son Max Buskohl later made a career as the singer of the rock band Empty Trash . Carlton's musical output was expanded at the end of the 80s to include compositions for cinema and television films. He has also performed live and in the studio as guitarist for Joe Cocker , Keb 'Mo' , Jimmy Barnes , Eric Burdon , Mother's Finest and others.

Own projects

Carl Carlton

In the early 1990s, Carl Carlton and his friend and long-time musical partner, drummer Bertram Engel , founded his own band New Legend, which also included keyboardist Pascal Kravetz and the two Dutch blues rockers Harry de Winter and Peter Bootsmann. Two CDs were released before the band split up two years later for personal reasons. In 1994 the declared cosmopolitan moved to Dublin ( Ireland ).

He soon met Robert Palmer , whom he later referred to as his "brotherly friend" and mentor. An intensive collaboration began that lasted almost ten years until Palmer's sudden death. Carlton supported Palmer live and in the studio as a guitarist, wrote songs with him and co-produced three albums.

"I don't need an Eric Clapton when I have Carl Carlton!"

- Robert Palmer (2003)

Inspired by Palmer, Carlton decided to set up his own project again: in 1999 Carl Carlton & The Songdogs was born, an international band with Carlton as the band leader and front man. 2001 animated Carlton to participate in a tribute album for Robert Johnson . Carlton and Palmer recorded a version of the Johnson song Milk Cow's Calf Blues . Inspired by participating in an album called Hellhound on my Trail , which was nominated for a Grammy , Palmer and Carlton produced Drive , a predominantly blues-heavy album in 2003 , which made it into the Billboard Blues Top Ten and was also nominated for a Grammy. In 2017 Carlton is touring various German cities with the Tobacco Road To Graceland program .

Carl Carlton & the Songdogs

Carl Carlton & the Songdogs

In addition to Carl Carlton, the inner circle of the band includes guitarist Moses Mo and bassist Wyzard from the funk rock pioneers Mother's Finest from Atlanta, as well as the German keyboardist Pascal Kravetz . Temporary band members are or were the guitarist Sonny Landreth , the keyboardist Ian McLagan as well as Levon Helm and Garth Hudson .

In September 2000 Revolution Avenue , the Songdogs' debut album, was recorded at Dockside Studios in the swamps of Louisiana . Three years after the first album, Carl Carlton & the Songdogs recorded their second long player with Love & Respect . The line-up of the Songdogs was now musically more colorful and international than before: In addition to the core of the band, Robert Palmer, Levon Helm, Sonny Landreth , Jon Smith, the White Trash Horns, Bobby Keys and Xavier Naidoo came to recordings in Louisiana. Multi-instrumentalist Martin Huch was hired for live performances, with Wayne P. Sheehy on drums. At the end of the Love & Respect tour , Carlton collapsed in front of the television cameras. A few weeks later, during the PR activities for the album Drive , his closest friend Robert Palmer died.

The Songdogs' next album was released in 2005, a live double CD entitled Cahoots & Roots , which also includes some songs that Robert Palmer had recorded with the Songdogs. In the same year Carlton became a member of Eric Burdon & The Animals and played with Ivan Neville, James "Hutch" Hutchinson, Ricky Fataar and keyboardist Mike Finnigan the blues album Soul of a Man , which was also nominated for a Grammy. From October 2007 to January 2008, Carlton was a jury member on the casting show SSDSDSSWEMUGABRTLAD .

Carl Carlton, who had meanwhile given up his second domicile on Mallorca and found a new home in Gozo , the neighboring island of Malta , began working on the new Songdogs album Songs for the Lost and Brave in 2009 , for which he was to produce by Levon Helm, his "fatherly friend", who was invited to his studio in Woodstock, NY . The new band member was Zack Alford, a drummer who worked for Bruce Springsteen and David Bowie , among others . The Songdogs recorded 15 songs in which Carlton also dealt with personal blows such as the separation from his second wife and the sudden death of his friend Robert Palmer. Carlton's 20-year-old son Max Buskohl has a vocal rendezvous with his father and singer Eric Burdon in the Stephen Stills classic For What It's Worth .

The Beatles sideman, bassist and graphic artist Klaus Voormann released the CD compilation A Sideman's Journey in 2009 , for which Carlton made several contributions as singer together with son Max Buskohl.

Toast to Freedom

In 2011, Carl Carlton and the American musician Larry Campbell ( Bob Dylan , Elvis Costello , Levon Helm Band and others) wrote Toast to Freedom , a song for Amnesty International's 50th birthday . Carl Carlton & the Songdogs recorded this song with more than 50 internationally known singers in Levon Helms Studio The Barn in Woodstock, including Kris Kristofferson , Warren Haynes , Donald Fagen , Keb Mo , Rosanne Cash , Marianne Faithfull , Jimmy Barnes , Jane Birkin , Eric Burdon and Levon Helm. The work was produced by Bob Clearmountain . On May 3, 2012, Amnesty International released the song worldwide.

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Guitar playing

Here is a selection (in alphabetical order) of the bands and projects in which Carlton worked as a guitarist:

Productions

Carl Carlton has worked as a producer on many acts and projects. Here is a selection:

Film music and musical compositions

  • Back then in the GDR (documentary film series)
  • The Joker (Director: Peter Patzak)
  • Killing Blue (Director: Peter Patzak)
  • Napoleon (Documentary TV Series)
  • News from the wanker (film)
  • Swansong - the Story of Occi Burne (film)
  • Tabaluga & Lilli (Musical)
  • Tabaluga & the Magic Jadestone (Musical)

Discography

Due to the many albums that Carl Carlton recorded with other musicians, only those of his own band are listed here.

Carl Carlton & the Songdogs

  • 2001 - Revolution Avenue (also as LP with 2 bonus tracks)
  • 2003 - Love & Respect (also as digipack with 1 bonus track)
  • 2004 - CaHoots & Roots - Life from Planet Zod (Live double CD)
  • 2008 - Songs for the Lost and Brave

Carl Carlton (Solo)

  • 2014 - Lights Out In Wonderland
  • 2017 - Woodstock & Wonderland Live

Singles:

  • 2001 - Coming Home
  • 2003 - Days Of Magic
  • 2004 - Instant Karma
  • 2008 - For What It's Worth (with Max Buskohl & Eric Burdon)

Awards & nominations

Grammy nominations:

  • Hellhound on my Trail - Songs of Robert Johnson (Sampler, 2001)
  • Drive (Robert Palmer, 2003)
  • Soul of a Man (Eric Burdon, 2006)

IFTA nomination (Irish Film and Television Award):

  • Swansong - the Story of Occi Burne (2009)

Grimme TV Prize:

  • Back then in the GDR (2005)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Carl Carlton on Deutschlandfunk in the program "Klassik, Pop et cetera" on August 27, 2016.
  2. ^ History of the band New Legend . Homepage of Karin Vogler. Retrieved April 30, 2011.
  3. ↑ My hit, your laurels. Only there instead of in the middle: Carl Carlton celebrated great success as a guitarist and songwriter for Peter Maffay, Udo Lindenberg, Joe Cocker and many other top stars. How does a life as a sidekick feel? In: Room One - The Patient magazine of KBV , No. 3/2019, Autumn 2019, p 41st
  4. ↑ www.focus.de: 50 international stars sing the Amnesty anthem , accessed on May 3, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Carlton, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Buskohl, Karl Walter Ahlerich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rock musician and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Ihrhove , East Frisia