Prescott Park Arts Festival presents: Hayes Carll

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River House Restaurant Concert Series

Texas native Hayes Carll has written rousers (“One Bed, Two Girls, Three Bottles of Wine”) and rockers (“Stomp and Holler”). He had a swaying, reckless, unpolished way of writing, but his latest record – Lovers and Leavers - strips back the layers to reveal the quiet perfection of ‘normal’ life after the doors to the last honky-tonk on your too-long tour close. It revels in time shared in the company of those you love and sometimes leave, like the simple enchantment of watching your young son master a new card trick. This seasoned writer, who can take simple observations and turn them into poetry, has written an album so stripped down it’s nearly naked, as he matures into seasoned songwriter that plays country in cousin form. Less is less and more is more. It’s all for the sake of the song.

“Much of the songwriting catalog he’s built up over the last dozen-plus years revolves around dashed dreams, doomed romance and drunken predicaments. Very often, though, he’s leavened the losing with cleverly deployed gallows humor, self-deprecation and yarn spinning, linking his work to his native state’s tradition of wryly winning musical wit, a writing trait he shares with Guy Clark, Robert Earl Keen, Lyle Lovett and even Miranda Lambert. Some of Carll's most beloved hits — to the extent that there is such a thing in the singer-songwriter and Americana scenes that he straddles — features situational humor and hooky punch lines delivered over shambling, down-home grooves in a fractured twang that plays up a badly sprained ego.” - NPR

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