Fri 2/7 @ 8:30PM
Mexican-American musician Carrie Rodriguez took up violin as a kindergartner in Austin, Texas and got good enough to earn a scholarship to the Oberlin Conservatory. She spent only a year there before she was lured away from classical music to delve into the Americana-rooted style she’s built her reputation on for the past 13 years.
She did that at Berklee College of Music in Boston and then settled in New York for a decade, a counterintuitive move for someone who now played the “fiddle” not the “violin.” She launched her career shortly after her graduation hitting the road with “Wild Thing”/”Angel of the Morning” songwriter Chip Taylor, who mentored her.
She’s now moved back to Austin, the hotbed for roots/Americana singer-songwriters like herself. Last year, she released Give Me All You Got, for which Taylor again gave her guidance, helping her weave songs from the material of her life. That album hit no. 1 on the Americana Music Association chart.
Rodriguez played a show at Nighttown last March accompanied by guitarist Luke Jacobs. If you missed them, or caught them and liked what you heard, the two are back for an encore.
Tickets are $20.