3 Feb 2013 - Rock & Pop at The Yardbird
Plus Melissa Hollick & Harry Hudson
In the past 20 years Marc Carroll has travelled from his native Dublin to London and back and then onto Los Angeles to pursue his musical vision. Carroll has experienced the frustration that comes with folding labels, collapsing deals, misguided marketing gambits, wrongheaded artist development. Along the way he’s gathered famous fans among some of his key inspirations – Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, – and had a bizarre, but remunerative, liaison with Top US TV show Friends.
The commercial breakthrough that would assuredly endear his music to a wider audience has thus far proved elusive but Carroll’s devotion to his art has never faltered. His albums stand as a tribute to both his single-minded determination and carefully nurtured talent. The influence of the folk, punk, country and blues records to the charged harmony pop that inspired him – The Beach Boys to Husker Du, Hank Williams to Neil Young – flow through Carroll’s music.
http://livebrum.co.uk/the-yardbird/2013/02/03/sunday-social-marc-carroll
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