Adam & Chris Carroll

Name: Adam & Chris Carroll
Start: 2024-06-29T01:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-06-29T04:00:00+00:00
Location: The Blue Door

Schedule

Sat Jun 29 2024 at 01:00 am to 04:00 am

UTC+00:00

Location

The Blue Door | Oklahoma City, OK

Want to hear a good story? Listen to any Adam Carroll song. His Texas peers sure have, over and over again, and are quick to heap superlatives on a stoic artist whose compositions provide a solitary glimpse into a verdant imagination.

Jon Dee Graham says Carroll "may be the best songwriter that Texas ever produced," while Robert Earl Keen proclaims, "If all were right with the world, Adam Carroll would be the Townes Van Zandt of our age."

"His lyrics are like a good book: They take you somewhere and leave you better than they found you," says Terri Hendrix.

Slaid Cleaves calls Carroll "the quintessential small-town songwriter," adding, "Travel outside the cities of this country and you'll recognize the barbecue-joint waitresses, the rice farmers, the karaoke singers, the black-flag pirates and the hi-fi lovers of this land--you'll meet them all in Adam's true-to-life songs."

Now, with the release of two new albums--I Walked in Them Shoes is a solo effort, wile Good Farmer was recorded in tandem with his wife, Chris Carroll--there are more characters to meet, at once fascinating and familiar.
That influence extends north of the Canadian border, where Carroll met his future wife at a music festival in her hometown of St. Catharines, Ontario, in 2012. They had each gotten sober, and connected over that commonality as their fellow headliners howled at the moon. Chris was already a fan of Adam’s music and was “blown away” when she saw him play. She wasn’t shy—and, unlike Adam, isn’t in general—about expressing her high opinion of him, which got him out of the psychological rut he was in at the time.

“Anytime anybody would tell me I was good as a writer or performer, I couldn't ever hear it and I couldn't say it to myself,” says Carroll. “I feared success. I had a hard time taking compliments. Chris was such a fan that her support has given me a new lease on looking at myself and my music. She believes in it so strongly that it's helped me to believe in it.”

She’s also helped him become a better musician, and the two have an easy chemistry that extends from Good Farmer to the road, which they traverse in an RV with their three dogs.

“Having Chris to play with has actually improved my solo playing,” he says. “I’ve had to learn more about being a guitar player. And her singing that accents a lot of my songs, it's making me want to be a better musician. I'm trying to learn harmony; she's really good at it. Playing with Chris is making me see that I can learn those things on my own now. I'm willing to do it because she's willing to do it. I'm trying to be a better guitar player to make her sound better, to be a complement to what she's doing."