1. Carrie Luz Rodriguez was born on July 31,1978 and is an American singer-songwriter and the daughter of Texan singer-songwriter David Rodriguez and Texas painter Katy Nail, and is the granddaughter of prolific Texas essayist Frances Nail.
15 Facts About Carrie Rodriguez
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Carrie Rodriguez's touring band members include Luke Jacobs, Hans Holzen, Erik Deutsch, Kyle Kegerreis, and Don Heffington.
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Carrie Rodriguez was awarded a scholarship to Oberlin Conservatory and studied under Roland and Almita Vamos for one year.
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Carrie Rodriguez's father, David Rodriguez, took her on tour with him in Europe when she was a teen, and after sitting through a sound check with her dad's old friend Lyle Lovett, she decided to leave Oberlin and set herself on course to become a fiddler at the Berklee College of Music under the tutelage of renowned fiddler, Matt Glaser, graduating in 2000.
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In 2001 Chip Taylor asked Carrie Rodriguez to join his European tour after seeing her play with the artist Hayseed during SXSW, which featured a showcase of artists of Hispanic ancestry.
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Carrie Rodriguez recorded her first duet album, Let's Leave This Town, with Chip Taylor in 2002 for Trainwreck Records.
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Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez appeared on NPR radio program, Weekend Edition, and appeared in a feature article in The New York Times' "Sunday Arts" section in 2003.
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Carrie Rodriguez released her second album, Carrie Rodriguez Ain't Me on August 5,2008.
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Carrie Rodriguez signed with Ninth Street Opus on October 10,2009 and on April 13,2010, she released her album of cover songs, Love and Circumstance.
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Carrie Rodriguez appeared on the Mountain Stage in Buckhannon, WV in 2008.
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Carrie Rodriguez has performed as a solo artist on Austin City Limits.
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Carrie Rodriguez even played fiddle on nearly every track for them.
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Carrie Rodriguez performed in shows along with Chip Taylor and Luke Jacobs in venues varying from coffee shops such as Caffe Teatro in Italy, to steakhouse saloons such as Cowboy Up in Belgium, to Hotels such as the Victoria Hotel in Anglesey, Wales.
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Carrie Rodriguez went to West Virginia Public Broadcasting's Mountain Stage on November 18,2012, to record a set for national broadcast in advance of the album's release.
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Chip, just out of the blue, sent me this song as an MP3 file in an email and said 'Carrie Rodriguez, I wrote this song for you.