Carsie Blanton

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Carsie Blanton (2012)

Carson Amanda "Carsie" Blanton (born July 22, 1985 in Bethesda (Maryland) ) is an American singer , songwriter and guitarist.

Blanton has released five studio albums to date: Ain't So Green (2005), Buoy (2009), Idiot Heart (2012), Not Old, Not New (2014), So Ferocious (2016); there are also three extended plays : Hush (2002), Beau (2010), Rude Remarks and Dirty Jokes (2013). In November 2011, Blanton was a preliminary act on Paul Simon's “So Beautiful or So What” tour.

In 2013, she funded her album Not Old, Not New through a Kickstarter campaign that raised more than $ 60,000 . She is also known for her blog , which is all about love and sexuality. Blanton is considered "one of the best singer / songwriters in the business". Loudon Wainwright III described them as "young up-and-comer ... at the top of my list".

life and career

Carsie Blanton grew up in Luray, Virginia . She took piano lessons at the age of six, and began playing guitar and writing songs at the age of 13. Blanton did not attend high school, but studied according to the unschooling principle. At the age of 16, she moved out of her home in 2002 to live with other artists and musicians in Eugene, Oregon . In Eugene, she worked as a background singer on a tour of the funk group The Champagne Syndicate , learned to swing dance and founded her first band, The Short Skirts . In the same year she recorded her first album Hush . She published this self-published. Her first studio album, Ain't So Green , produced by Everything 's Steve Van Dam , followed in 2005.

In 2006 Blanton moved to Philadelphia to fully devote herself to her musical career. She started working with manager Bill Eib ( Amos Lee , Mutlu Onaral ) and in 2007 she had more than 100 live performances. In 2010, Blanton performed live on the Mountain Stage radio show on the NPR radio network . She also opened up for concerts by The Weepies and Shawn Colvin . In 2011, Blanton toured with Anais Mitchell's Hadestown: A Folk Opera; she played the role of Head Fate in it. She also opened many concerts on Paul Simon's “So Beautiful or So What” tour. In 2014 Blanton performed together with Michael Feinstein in the NPR program "Song Travels".

Blanton's "Smoke Alarm" is used as the theme song for the podcast Tangentially Speaking with Dr. Christopher Ryan used it. She has also appeared as a show guest several times.

Carsie Blanton now lives and works in New Orleans , Louisiana.

Discography

year album
2002 Hush
2005 Ain't so green
2009 Buoy
2010 Beau EP
2012 Idiot Heart
2014 Not old, not new
2016 So ferocious

Music videos

year Video
2010 Baby Can Dance
2012 Back seat
2013 Backbone
2013 Smoke alarm
2014 Laziest Gal in Town
2016 Hot night
2016 Vim & Vigor

Independence from the music industry

Blanton is co-founder of an online tool for the music industry: the "Quidplayer" is an MP3 player and distribution platform based on the "pay what you please" principle. The Quidplayer enables listeners to purchase pieces of music directly from the artists and to pay a price they set themselves.

Blanton developed the Quidplayer in 2008 together with Jon Darvill. In her online bio, Blanton explains this approach as follows: “My true calling as an artist is to share ... What I actually want to do is make beautiful music and then give it to everyone, regardless of what they give me back. ” Since 2011, Blanton has used “pay what you please” for all of her music releases (digital and physical). She publishes her music under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC 3.0 US).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Simon Still Approaches His Songs with Enthusiasm . Richmond Times Dispatch. Archived from the original on February 4, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 12, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www2.timesdispatch.com
  2. ↑ Carsie Blanton - Bio . carsieblanton.com/about. Retrieved March 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ Carsie Blanton on Mountain Stage . npr.org. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
  4. ↑ Married indie-pop duo The Weepies, now parents, return with reflective album . news-herald.com. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
  5. ^ Shawn Colvin Serenades Sold-Out Landmark Audience . Port Washington Patch. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
  6. ↑ Songwriter Anais Mitchell brings “Hadestown” folk opera to Norfolk . dailypress.com. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
  7. ^ Tangentially Speaking . feralaudio.com. Retrieved July 21, 2014.
  8. ↑ Quidplayer . quidplayer.com. Archived from the original on November 3, 2011. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
  9. ^ The Big Exciting News . blogspot.com. Retrieved January 12, 2012.
  10. ↑ Carsie Blanton> Bio & Press , www.carsieblanton.com, accessed on 25 July 2018th
personal data
SURNAME Blanton, Carsie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blanton, Carson Amanda (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Bethesda , Maryland, United States