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George Carver, songwriter
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• "Carver's music is suited to a small club where people sit down
for a good drink, a good cry and good music."
-CMJ New Music Report
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•..." a bunch of beautiful songs. A beautiful CD!
- OOR Magazine, Holland |
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• ..."playful, even jaunty at times.."
-Austin Chronicle
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• "Carver does what the best of Austin songwriters do, tell tales
with sadness, humor and mood galore."
-CMJ
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George Carver, steel guitar player
George Carver plays with strings, fingers
and a steel bar, but that’s where any similarities with the
type of “steel guitar” coming out of Nashville end.
Carver’s seldom-heard style is Western Swing with heavy emphasis
on swing – the type of hillbilly jazz once performed by greats
like Herb Remington, Bob Dunn and Joaquin Murphy. In a 30-year career
Carver has worn many hats (multi-instrumentalist; producer of artists
as diverse as African percussion icon Babatunde Olatunji and country/jazz
guitar wiz Dave Biller; a singer/songwriter compared to Tom Waits
or “Lyle Lovett on Quaaludes,” whose humorous downer
persona can make Richard Thompson seem like Jim Carey), but his
steel guitar endeavor is no mere flirtation. His chops on the 8-string
lap steel were honed after years of listening to and learning from
heroes like Jimmy Day, Junior Brown and John Ely where he lives
in, Austin, Texas. When not leading his band The Modern
Agriculture, Mr. Carver’s non-pedal steel can be
heard adding just the right flavor to Mark Rubin & his Ridgetop
Syncopators, Shorty
Long, and The Swingsters.
For more information:
Andrew Halbreich
Shrub Music
Austin, TX
512-891-0789
ahalbreich@aol.com
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