01. Bernadine
02. Raining
03. Rough Side
04. Good Behavior
05. Tears in my Gumbo
06. Spoken For
07. Lil Runaway
08. Old Child Country Star
09. Household Name
10. Rigged Game
11. Wrote It For You
12. Rough Side Accordian
I’ve really enjoyed these last few months in the studio working on a new album with Lloyd Maines. I’ve been wondering what to call this new collection of songs. If I could pick a word to describe this project it would be “unexpected”. I hadn’t really planned on recording any of them, I started writing them about 2 yrs ago or so. I went on what you might say was a quest to seek out some new experiences with music and people.
I’ve always been a fan of the music in Louisiana, so I went to the Blue Moon Saloon in Lafayette to see Horace Trahan and the Ossun Express. Horace is a zydeco musician in the tradition of Clifton Chenier and Boozoo Chavis from Ossun LA, and man he had that place packed and jumpin’ all night long. I can’t dance but I can sure tap my foot and it was tapping like crazy because the music and atmosphere were electric to me.
It is really something to see Cajun people dance. I mean it is like an explosion or a chain reaction and everyone is invited to the party. I saw all kinds of people together on the dance floor (it was a small dance floor and everybody was smashed up together real close and nobody was ashamed) It is just as much fun as Texas but a little bit different if you ask me.
The next day I spent New Years Eve in Eunice LA at the Savoy Music Center, I bought a little Hohner squeezebox from Marc Savoy himself. He said “I love this little accordion” and sold it to me. I told him I was from Austin and that I had a passion for Southwestern Louisiana, he said “You ought to move down here man” I have yet to take him on that but I’m not ruling it out of the old bucket list.
I also bought a rub board for my brother. It was a late Christmas present, plus I figured one day I might need a band.
I came home to Texas that night with an idea that whatever I did next with music I wanted to make some room for the little squeezebox that I felt Mr Savoy had selected for me.
These songs are about hard knocks, new love, coon asses, gamblers, south Texas shrimpers and Canadian folk singers (I bagged me a pretty one by the way). Some of these songs are pretty rough around the edges but I believe that the universe will meet you in the middle if you put a little love out there. I hope that they are a tribute to life and the way we march forward.
I’m calling this new album “Let it Choose You” in honor of a conversation I had with a friend of mine who said “Songs Choose Us… make yourself willing to receive them”
This record is really a continuation of that idea, it’s because of your support that I’ve been able to let the songs choose me. I can only hope that one of them will choose you. (Adam Carroll)
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Artist: Adam CarrollTitle Of Album: Let It Choose YouYear Of Release: 2014Label: Down Hole RecordsGenre: Country, FolkQuality: Mp3Bitrate: 320 kbpsTotal Time: 40:13 MinTotal Size: 101 Mb
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