JODY CARROLL
"He does not play the blues so much as he inhabits them..." No Depression
Album Promo poster
Press Images
Jody Carroll
Show poster
Photos by: American Tumbleweed
Has performed along side or shared stage's with the likes of in short:
Buddy Guy, Honey Boy Edwards, Louisiana Red, R.L Burnside, Johnny Winter, Roy Bookbinder, John Mayhall, Roy Rodgers, George Thorogood, Paul Geramia, Derek Trucks, Leo Bud Welch, Robert Cray, Ural Thomas, Roy Rodgers, Roy Bookbinder, Eddie Kirkland, Robyn Trower, John McEuen , Charlie Musslewhite, Canned Heat, Robert Earl Keen, Sonny Landreth & Shameka Copeland
Festivals (short List) :
Merlefest 2018
Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival, Portland OR - 9 consecutive years
Pickathon, OR
The Harry Smith Festival, OR
Wildwood, OR
Yakima Blues Festival, WA
Pasadena Blues Festival, CA
Ospel Netherland Blues Festival, Netehrlands
Osaka Blues Festival, Japan
Chico Feo Festival, SC
Venues (short List) :
Grey Eagle, Asheville, NC
Isis Theater, Asheville, NC
The Rooster Bar, Tokyo Japan
Altamont Theater, Asheville, NC
Gaillard Center for the Performing Arts, SC
Alladin Theater, OR
Asheville Guitar Bar, NC
McCabes, CA
Aztec Theater, NM
Sunflower Theater, CO
Lake Theater, Lake Oswego
Music of the Bay, MA
High Noon Saloon, WI
Mississippi Studio's, OR
Grey Eagle, NC
White Eagle, OR
The Whiskey, Los Angeles
Instruction:
Merle Fest 2018
Portland State University Guitar and Banjo Workshop - 2 years
Portland State University - Taught Painting and Drawing - 7 years
Portland Blues Festival Guitar Workshop - 8 years
Holds a M.F.A in Fine Art
Created and Taught at the Caldera Arts Program for kids. OR
Art: http://calderaarts.org/caldera/blues-project-posters/
Born next to Mount Diablo in the San Joaquin Valley of California.
Painted Murals on hotels and casinos down Highway 61 1994 -6
"new blues artist we now can't live without....Jody Carroll, whose textured blues and other roots were dark and haunting.."
Amos Perrine - No Depression,
"Jody Carroll does not play the blues so much as he inhabits them, with a definite Americana tinge. His dark and haunting tales embody roots music to its fullest.."
Amos Perrine - No Depression 2021
Merlefest 2018/21 Artist
Jody Carroll at Merlefest 2018
Performed 3 shows to critical acclaim
No Depression coverage:
http://nodepression.com/article/was-not-your-dads-merlefest
* Listen to the Mounatin Stage Episode Pod Cast featuring Jody Carroll *
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