Jon Carroll
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IF THERE WERE A WAMMIE award for "Most Prolific Guest Artist," Jon Carroll would have a mantel crowded with them by now. Though best known for his work with Starland Vocal Band and Mary Chapin Carpenter, the keyboardist-composer-vocalist has more recording credits than Donald Trump has nasty things to say about Rosie O'Donnell, or vice versa.
Carroll, however, recently reserved enough time to record "Love Returns," his first solo album in more than a decade. It's a vibrant reminder of what he does best, whether it's conjuring vintage R&B/soul sounds, the inspiration for "Maybe This Romance," "Take It All Back" and several other tracks, or composing a ballad as evocative as "Land That Time Forgot," which manages to bring to mind both novelist Annie Proulx and tunesmith John Prine, or coming up with a country ditty as innocently engaging as "On the Front Porch."
Two cover tunes -- Ted Hawkins's "The Good and the Bad" and Dan Zanes's "Darkness Before Dawn" -- neatly fit alongside the original tunes, and though the arrangements tend to be spare -- too spare, at times -- they're enhanced by Carroll's own list of guest musicians, which includes drummer Dave Mattacks, guitarist Duke Levine, reedman Chris Watling and trumpeter Alan MacEwen. Sure, Carroll is accustomed to seeing his name listed in the fine print, but he headlines this session with talent and charm to spare.
~Mike Joyce - The Washington Post
Discography
Jon Carroll-Love Returns on Azalea City Recordings
Jon Carroll & Love Returns--LIVE
at The Barns at Wolf Trap--http://cdbaby.com/cd/joncarroll2
Jon Carroll-Home & Away on Cherry Lane Music
Tracks available at www.joncarroll.org
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--2011 WAMA
MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
ROCK POP INSTRUMENTALIST
--2010 WAMA
MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
ROCK POP INSTRUMENTALIST
--2009 WAMA
ROCK/POP INSTRUMENTALIST
--2008 WAMA
-- MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
-- (WAMA/SAW) SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
-- POP ROCK RECORDING
(Jon Carroll & Love Returns/ Live Returns Live at the Barns)
-- POP ROCK VOCALIST
-- POP ROCK DUO/GROUP (Jon Carroll & Love Returns)
--POP ROCK INSTRUMENTALIST
--RECORD LABEL of the YEAR
--Azalea City Recordings--
2007
--SONG OF THE YEAR (Paint That Dollar)
--ALBUM OF THE YEAR (Love Returns)
--MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR (General Award Category)
--ROCK MALE VOCALIST
--ROCK RECORDING (Love Returns)
--WAMA/SAW SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
--ROCK INSTRUMENTALIST
AZALEA CITY RECORDINGS--
2007 WASHINGTON AREA RECORD LABEL
Jon and Love Returns in 2007 was voted the Washington Music Association's:
SONG OF THE YEAR (Paint That Dollar)
*SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR
*ALBUM OF THE YEAR (Love Returns)
*MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR (General Award Category)
*ROCK MALE VOCALIST
*ROCK RECORDING (Love Returns)
*ROCK INSTRUMENTALIST
Washington Area Music Association 2008 Nominations:
--Songwriter of the Year
--Pop Rock Recording Of the Year
--Pop Rock Instrumentalist of the Year
--Pop Rock Vocalist of the Year
--Pop Rock Duo or Group of the Year
--Musician of the Year
When Jon was 18 yrs old he helped form Starland Vocal Band (1975), that went on to be nominated for 5 Grammy
Awards, garnering 2--one for Best
New Artist and one for Best
Arrangement for Voices, which
was Jons handiwork. The group recorded 4 more albums and
starred in a network television
show before disbanding in the
early 80s. Since then, the native
Washingtonian has stayed
extremely busy both within the D.C. area as well as nationally, recording and
performing with renowned acts,and writing hits recorded by premier singers
(Linda Ronstadt, Tom Jones and Kenny Rogers). He has toured extensively
and internationally with Mary Chapin Carpenter, Rodney Crowell, Dixie Chicks
and others, and is always an energetic and dynamic element to see and hear
onstage. His versatility has brought him into and out of many aesthetic
spheres, and he has penned several stage musicals, composes soundtracks, is an actor and educator.
Get Closer, recorded by Linda Ronstadt. Other songs recorded by Tom Jones, Kenny Rogers, others.
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