Carolann Solebello

CAROLANN SOLEBELLO is a performing songwriter born and bred in New York City. Best known to folk audiences as a founding member of Americana trio Red Molly, she now tours as a solo troubadour and with modern folk foursome No Fuss and Feathers. Carolann’s smooth, compelling voice and warm acoustic guitar style nod to rural folk traditions while her decidedly urban sense of rhythm and sophisticated vocal phrasing plant her firmly in the present. An award-winning songwriter and proud member of AFM Local 1000, Carolann has five solo albums to her credit and is working on a sixth.

"Carolann Solebello may be the best kept secret in the world of singer-songwriters... She possesses one of the best voices in the singer-songwriter world with vocal body and spot-on intonation. She's also matured into a first-rate songwriter. Her topics range from finding her muse to Bastille Day in New York, to the deeply personal question and request Listen. A great deal of credit for the glory of this album [Shiver] must be given to her producer Joe Iadanza... Everything just falls into place on this recording which vaults Solebello into the upper echelon of singer-songwriters."
~ Rich Warren, The Midnight Special, WFMT 98.7FM, Chicago IL

"I think of Carolann Solebello as a painter with words. An illustrator could have a field day with the imaginative storytelling [in this] book of tales... Whether it’s divine aid or some other muse, she shows off some major chops with Shiver."
~ Richard Cuccaro, Acoustic Live in NYC

"Shiver is a strong effort showcasing Carolann Solebello’s smart songwriting chops and bell-clear singing voice... While she may mix in a few other musical styles, it’s clear her bread and butter is traditional folk singing and songwriting... real-deal folk music."
~ Dan MacIntosh, Music Matters Review

"With the first soaring notes of the bittersweet, opening country ballad, "Brooklyn in the Rain," her strong, clear, insistent vocals were a potent reminder why she’d gotten the Red Molly gig to begin with. That, and her purist, similarly eclectic guitar chops. The fluidity of Solebello’s fretwork, whether with her chords or fingerpicking, should be the rule rather than the exception, but in what’s left of the singer-songwriter demimonde, it seldom is."
~ Alan Young, New York Music Daily

"It's refreshing to hear a singer-songwriter from Brooklyn who's actually from Brooklyn… Steel and Salt is nothing if not a love song to New York City... This is an album about home. Whether you're from my home or not. In "Movie Queen," Solebello sings that "We will never be celebrities." While that's probably not a bad thing, it would also be a shame to let this album fade into obscurity."
~ Rachel Choist, Adobe and Teardrops

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