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The best kept secret in music
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The cheeky Ulrich (sic), who writes perky, kischy light-hearted ditties such as "The Wedgie" and "The Man Who Changes the Light Bulbs", has a gift for making catchy jingles from mundane experiences.
- Arkansas Times
... a really good show. Her material is pretty remarkable. I find it thoughtful, funny, sensitive, kind of out in "left field,"-- like I used to find Steve Martin's humor... clever, a talented guitarist, and a stage presence that convinces audiences that the characters she sings about, she really cares about, or she knows something about them... the monologs between tunes really work tying the songs to universal (as well as unique) experiences audiences can identify.
-- Carlos McCauley, - WFIT DJ
Very talented, very funny, very personable, and an easy act to work with.
We would be hard pressed to imagine anyone not enjoying a set from this young woman ... thoughtful and intelligent, sometimes clever observations about life are written in an often wry and humorous manner.
-Seegar Swanson - Fiddler's Green Coffeehouse Series
Her wit and humor are so fresh...it should be date coded.
-Dave Cambest - Broward Folk Club News
"Sick Humor" is a collection of darkly funny songs (they are about illness, after all) sung with tongue firmly in cheek and an optimistic viewpoint that is truly "contagious."... a terrific showcase for Ulbrich's quirky sense of humor and her eclectic taste in music.
- Craig's Book Club
Discography
"If I Had the Copyright" (The F word song) (single), 2006
"Sick Humor" (CD), 2004
"Professional Smart Aleck" (CD), 2003
"Her Fabulous Debut" (CD), 2000
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Bio
Coming Nov. 10: Independent film entitled "F**K" features comedic songwriter.
Do you like the F-word? Here's your chance to hear it more than 800 times in one feature film. This movie breaks the Guinness Book record for the number of times the F word is used in one film.
"F**K" (A F**kumentary), to be released on Nov. 10, takes a look at the infamous F-word, from both the liberal and conservative perspective. It's a word at the very center of the debate on free speech. The film was direected by Steve Anderson, and is distributed by Thinkfilm, the same bunch of folks who brought you "The Aristrocrats" last year (the documentary about the filthy joke, not the Disney cartoon about felines).
The film features interviews with all sorts of folks, from Pat Boone to Ice-T to Hunter S Thompson (his last interview).
And the very first thing you hear at the beginning of the film is Carla Ulbrich's song 'If I Had the Copyright" ("The F word song"), a song she penned about the popularity of the word, and how rich she would be if she could copyright it.
Carla Ulbrich has been compared to the likes of Weird Al, Chet Atkins and a bologna sandwich.
A better guitar player than most bologna sandwiches, the South Carolina native has relocated to New Jersey, where the F word flows freely. She released 3 CDs: Her Fabulous Debut (1999), Professional Smart Aleck (2003) and Sick Humor (2004).
Her songs have been heard on Dr. Demento, the BBC, XM radio, Sirius Satellite, PAX TV, USA network, and numerous NPR stations and podcasts. Carla tours all over the country, appearing at venues such as The Bluebird Cafe and Eddie's Attic, festivals including Kerrville and Falcon Ridge, medical and nursing conventions, concert series, comedy clubs, churches, science fiction conventions, colleges, and other seemingly incongruent locations.
An otherwise "clean" comedian, Carla wrote "If I had the Copyright" after 2 people told her is was the worst idea they'd ever heard for a song, and recorded it after another friend warned her it would ruin her career. "You have to *have* a career for it to get ruined," she retorted.
While, indeed, she has been fired from a gig for singing the F-word song, ending up as the first song in a full-length documentary isn't too bad a consolation prize.
learn more about the film:
http://www.fourletterfilm.com/trailer.htm
learn more about Carla, hire her to come perform, or set up an interview, at
www.carlau.com
carlau@mindspring.com
(908) 616-3482
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