Carrie Rodriguez

Carrie Rodriguez says of her own musical influences, "Hopefully, a little of everything that goes into my ears influences what comes out. I’ve never been one to stick to any particular genre... whether it’s sung or instrumental, written this year or 300 years ago, music with soul still moves me in the same way that it always did."

On January 17, 2013 Carrie was honored by the city of Austin with an official "Carrie Rodriguez Day" (and each year going forward). The city's proclamation is in recognition of Carrie's "work in advancing Austin as the 'Live Music Capital of the World'."

On January 22, 2013, her new album Give Me All You Got will be released. Rodriguez went to West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s Mountain Stag on November 18, 2012 to record a set for national broadcast in advance of the album’s release. Her plans for the year include a tour schedule booked through April in the U.S. Give Me All You Got contains a song called "I Cry For Love," of which Rodriguez said, "This was a true gift. It came from one of our greatest songwriters of all time, in my humble opinion, Chip Taylor. Chip, just out of the blue, sent me this song as an MP3 file in an email and said 'Carrie, I wrote this song for you. It’s custom written and you better record it because I think it’s a hit.' So I said ‘All right.' It’s such a powerful song and I almost feel like I wrote it because I feel so close to it.”

Carrie also helped co-produce the album The Fantastic Expedition, by Erik & Sanne, released June 5, 2012, pulling together many Texas musicians, such as Earl Poole Ball (Johnny Cash's piano player), Lloyd Maines (father of Dixie Chicks member Natalie Maines), Luke Jacobs, and more. She even played fiddle on nearly every track for them.

In 2012, her extensive tours to Europe continued in various countries including Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom during the later half of the year. She performed in shows along with Chip Taylor and Luke Jacobs in venues varying from coffee shops such as Caffé Teatro in Italy, to steakhouse saloons such as Cowboy Up in Belgium, to Hotels such as the Victoria Hotel in Anglesey, Wales.

In August 2011 she toured the U.S. with Jeff Bridges, with whom she also appeared on Austin City Limits, Today, Live with Regis and Kelly, The Colbert Report and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Carrie Rodriguez Live in Louisville 2009, featured her opening set in Louisville while she toured with Lucinda Williams.

Rodriguez signed with Ninth Street Opus in October 10, 2009 and on April 13, 2010, she released her album of cover songs, Love and Circumstance. This album included songs by Hank Williams, John Hiatt and Lucinda Williams, and was one of the Top 20 Albums of 2010 (Americana Music Association).

On September 29, 2008, a three-song live acoustic video performance premiered on LiveDaily Sessions, featuring Rodriguez performing the songs "Absence," "El Salvador" and "Can't Cry Enough".

Carrie appeared on the Mountain Stage in Buckhannon, WV in 2008. She has performed as a solo artist on Austin City Limits (2008). Her recent duo in We Still Love Our Country with Romantica lead singer Ben Kyle went to the top 10 on the AMA radio charts in Feb of 2011.

After four duet records with Taylor, she released her debut solo album, Seven Angels on a Bicycle, on August 15, 2006. She released her second album, She Ain't Me on August 5, 2008.

She recorded her first duet album, Let's Leave This Town, with Chip Taylor in 2002 for Trainwreck Records. They toured extensively in Europe, performing on the TV show Top of the Pops as well as appearing on numerous BBC National Radio programs. Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez also appeared on NPR radio program, Weekend Edition, and appeared in a feature article in The New York Times' "Sunday Arts" section in 2003.

In 2001 Chip Taylor asked 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. The list of performers was narrow in focus but inspired: Carlos Santana, Los Lobos, Linda Ronstadt, Gloria Estefan, Jose Feliciano, and Carrie Rodriguez. TODO Austin called her the outlier, who was running "on the strength of a career only a decade old, [but] already so highly regarded that she’s not only captured the heart of Americana music aficionados but infused the Latino community with a singular dose of Ameri-Chicana pride."

She was awarded a scholarship to Oberlin Conservatory and studied under Roland and Almita Vamos for one year (1996). Her 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. There, her teacher, Matt Glaser, and her fellow students, including roommate Casey Driessen, helped her “find my groove and let go of that wall I had put up as a classical player.”

Carrie Luz Rodriguez (born July 31, 1978) 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. She sings and plays the fiddle, mandobird and tenor guitar.