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Boston Globe: Live Review

Boston Globe: Live Review

MUSIC REVIEW A double dose of tough and tender country-folk April 26, 2011 By Stuart Munro JASON ISBELL and HAYES CARLL At: Brighton Music Hall, Saturday In these still-perilous economic times, it would be hard to think of a better value for your...

6/1/2011
Recent quotes for KMAG YOYO

Recent quotes for KMAG YOYO

"He spins a yarn with fresh wit, details a failure with unflinching honesty, and everything in between remains admirably cliché-free.” - Los Angeles Times “…extends a worthy Texas tradition: the weathered, hard-drinking, weary but clear-eyed troubadour….”...

5/31/2011
Creative Loafing Charlotte Feature

Creative Loafing Charlotte Feature

Hayes Carll has walked a long road on path to success April 12, 2011 By Jeff Hahne Hayes Carll With Shovels and Rope. $13. April 17. 7 p.m. Stage Door Theater. www.blumenthalarts.org Though people are still slowly learning the name Hayes Carll, the...

4/26/2011
Hayes Guest Writes for Austin Chronicle

Hayes Guest Writes for Austin Chronicle

My SXSW BY HAYES CARLL, FRI., MARCH 18, 2011 7am: The boys all gather by the van to head down to the Four Seasons for a KGSR performance. The sun hasn't risen, and neither has the drummer, so we wait in the car listening to the radio. I contemplate...

4/6/2011
Ft Worth Weekly Hits The TX Club Tour

Ft Worth Weekly Hits The TX Club Tour

Nights in a Hayes When I found out that up-and-coming Americana singer-songwriter Hayes Carll was going to kick off his national tour right here in North Texas — and not in his hometown of Austin — I squealed (a little) and marked my calendar. Not only...

4/6/2011
Salt Lake Magazine Review

Salt Lake Magazine Review

Hayes Carll’s latest is earning him well-deserved attention BY SCOTT MURPHY Since the release of his fourth album last month, Texas troubadour Hayes Carll seems close to getting the larger audience he deserves. “KMAG YOYO” seems closer to delivering...

4/6/2011
Entertainment Weekly Reviews KMAG YOYO

Entertainment Weekly Reviews KMAG YOYO

MUSIC REVIEWKMAG YOYO (& other American stories) (2011)Reviewed by Chris Willman | Feb 23, 2011 Carll is locked in a not-so-fierce battle with Ryan Bingham for the title of new king of alt-country. Here he splits the difference between Bingham's tender...

4/6/2011
KMAG YOYO Review in MOJO

KMAG YOYO Review in MOJO

Texas troubadour's latest tales are his most potent.Click here to keep reading...

4/6/2011
#3 in Austin Weekly's 11 Bands to Watch

#3 in Austin Weekly's 11 Bands to Watch

Two days before New Year's Eve, Hayes Carll stands before a packed house at Antone's, cracking dry witticisms ad conducting a sing-along of "Drunken Poet's Dream,"......click here to keep reading.

4/6/2011
3.5 Stars in Rolling Stone!

3.5 Stars in Rolling Stone!

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINEFebruary 17, 2011 Texas smartass delivers hilarity and heartache.Click here to keep reading...

4/6/2011
4 Stars on The 9513.com!

4 Stars on The 9513.com!

Album Review: Hayes Carll – KMAG YOYOBLAKE BOLDT | FEBRUARY 2ND, 2011 The title of Hayes Carll’s fourth and best album is a reference to the military acronym that stands for “Kiss My Ass Guys, You’re on Your Own,” and a pair of tracks...

4/6/2011
New York Times Critics' Choice: KMAG YOYO

New York Times Critics' Choice: KMAG YOYO

HAYES CARLL (Lost Highway) Hayes Carll has a dry, chapped voice, bolstered and puckered by Texas twang. His music puts forth a fair amount of bluster, steeped in wanderlust or whiskey, or both at once. “Well, I followed my feet all across this...

4/6/2011
SPIN: 9 out of 10!

SPIN: 9 out of 10!

Hayes Carll'KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories)' We're totally screwed, but damn, that drawl is sweet Hayes Carll is a wiseacre well versed in both kinds of music -- "honky" and "tonk" -- played in a roadhouse out on Highway 61. KMAG YOYO (a...

4/6/2011
LA Times: 3.5 out of 4 Stars!

LA Times: 3.5 out of 4 Stars!

You can’t listen to this freewheeling Texas singer and songwriter long without becoming thoroughly convinced that he’s a full-blooded relative of Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb and Merle Haggard. Waylon Jennings’ famous observation about Grand Ole Opry...

4/6/2011
People gives KMAG YOYO 3/4

People gives KMAG YOYO 3/4

"On his latest, [KMAG YOYO], this Texas singer-songwriter cover gritty alt-country territory"

3/7/2011
Carll Epitomizes the Texas Singer-Songwriter Sound

Carll Epitomizes the Texas Singer-Songwriter Sound

The lightly soused, quietly ironic tradition of Texas singer-songwriters is alive and well in the form of Hayes Carll. Carll has been bubbling under for the past couple years, a reliable draw at area venues, where the shows invariably become a sort of...

3/3/2011
NPR Music on Hayes Carll

NPR Music on Hayes Carll

"KMAG YOYO" is a military slang term that translates approximately to "Kiss My [You-Know-What], Guys — You're On Your Own." That message seems to have inspired country rocker Hayes Carll, a 34-year-old Texan with a reputation for irreverence. Carll's...

3/2/2011
Early KMAG YOYO Love

Early KMAG YOYO Love

Check out what folks are saying about KMAG YOYO... American Songwriter Speaking of weird album titles, “She Left Me For Jesus” writer Hayes Carll will release KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories) in February, the followup to his much...

12/21/2010
Back to Basics

Back to Basics

from the Houston Chronicle... The last time Hayes Carll had a new batch of songs ready for release, he was playing a festival in Colorado. Backstage he told friend and mentor Ray Wylie Hubbard he planned to title his album Trouble in Mind. “You can't...

2/18/2010
Holiday Q&A with Hayes Carll

Holiday Q&A with Hayes Carll

from Austin Music Source: Last year, Hayes Carll’s bawdy wit (“She Left Me for Jesus”) and cerebral storytelling (“Beaumont”) fully blossomed on the album “Trouble in Mind.” Its success earned good company: The 33-year-old swaps smiles with iconic...

1/1/2010
Dry Patter & Whiskey-Bottle-Bottom Voice

Dry Patter & Whiskey-Bottle-Bottom Voice

After this summer's performance at Cambridge Folk Festival, Maverick Magazine's Hazel Davis has some very nice things to say about Hayes Carll: "...Wry Texas singer Hayes Carll won the audience over on Friday with his dry patter and whiskey-bottle-bottom...

9/7/2009
Decider D.C. Interviews Hayes

Decider D.C. Interviews Hayes

The Texas music scene, for all its grounding in outlaw country traditions, has become a big tent in recent years, and one of its most consistently entertaining acts is Hayes Carll. Born in the Houston suburbs, Carll’s music career was a slow starter;...

6/3/2009
DC Live Review

DC Live Review

You don't write a cheeky tune such as "She Left Me for Jesus" unless you know you've got the goods to dodge the novelty-act bullet. At the Rock & Roll Hotel on Friday night, Hayes Carll -- a backwards-named Texas hellraiser-with-a-sensitive-side, though...

12/10/2008
Carll Charms

Carll Charms

Hayes Carll is coming to town on a wave of well-deserved critical acclaim for Trouble in Mind, his first album for Lost Highway Records. The record covers a lot of territory — all of it good. Carll’s music ranges from rocking Texas country to ballads...

12/5/2008
DC Preview: Hayes Carll

DC Preview: Hayes Carll

This has been a year of many ups and one humongous down for Texas troubadour Hayes Carll. In April, he released "Trouble in Mind," his third album of expertly observed barroom songs, to rave reviews. In addition to American and European tours that...

12/4/2008
Sarcastic Storyteller

Sarcastic Storyteller

He's the snarky slacker with a heart of pure Kerouac. He's a modern storyteller's dream, wrapped in a cloak of country-folk charm. Hayes Carll is the traveling Texas troubadour for today's X Generation, singing about both savage skies and...

11/10/2008
Q&A w/ Hayes Carll: Lawrence Preview

Q&A w/ Hayes Carll: Lawrence Preview

When one of the sponsors of your tour is the eminent online voice of humor/sarcasm The Onion, it shouldn’t surprise too many people that you have an award-winning song about a guy who wants to extract some revenge on Jesus for stealing his...

11/5/2008
Old-Fashioned Texas Twang

Old-Fashioned Texas Twang

Hayes Carll's first major-label release, Trouble in Mind, came out via Lost Highway in April to rave reviews. Carll hadn't made a record since 2005, which helps explain the disc's broad sonic swath: from Texas to Tennessee, from Earle to Keen to...

11/5/2008
5 Best Songs You Didn't Hear

5 Best Songs You Didn't Hear

"She Left Me for Jesus" - Hayes Carll She says I should find Him and I'll know peace at last / If I ever find Jesus I'm kickin' His ass. Pansy-ass country-radio programmers screamed blasphemy, but the true offense was denying their audience this...

11/4/2008
Q&A with Hayes Carll

Q&A with Hayes Carll

9 p.m. Thursday — Blueberry Hill's Duck Room — $10 — 314-727-4444 Singer-songwriter Hayes Carll's new album "Trouble in Mind" recounts his rowdier days and includes the tall tale "She Left Me for Jesus," which recently won the Americana Music...

10/30/2008
Portland Preview: Hayes Carll

Portland Preview: Hayes Carll

It's all Hank Williams' fault. The great country songwriter made himself a legend by singing about the three R's: rowdiness, roaming and regret. He didn't quite get around to the fourth (redemption) before he died in the back of his Cadillac, en...

10/20/2008
Sounds Like Trouble

Sounds Like Trouble

Hayes Carll would never say he’s the most talented guy in the world, but the thirty-two-year-old singer-songwriter had a leg up on the competition in the Gulf of Mexico town of Crystal Beach, Texas. “I was the only one in town who could sing and play...

10/15/2008
Mourning the Loss of Bolivar

Mourning the Loss of Bolivar

During a concert last month in London, Hayes Carll held up a British newspaper to the crowd and pointed out a front-page photo. The photo showed a lion holed up in a church on a largely abandoned Crystal Beach after Hurricane Ike. "I took it out to...

10/8/2008
Carll Gets Dumped for Jesus

Carll Gets Dumped for Jesus

In September, Hayes Carll won the Americana Music Association’s song of the year for “She Left Me for Jesus.” With a title like that there’s only so many ways the song can go. By a few seconds into this new video you should get the idea. Basically, it’s...

10/6/2008
A Whole Lotta Trouble

A Whole Lotta Trouble

In the three years since his self-released second album, “Little Rock” became available, Carll has toured relentlessly in North America and abroad (performing over two hundred shows a year), founded a successful singer-songwriter music festival on the...

9/29/2008
A Taste of Americana

A Taste of Americana

Not to be confused with American- Irish duo Hayes and Cahill, Hayes Carll is a Texan singer-songwriter billed as a cross between a young Kris Kristofferson and Bob Dylan. Much closer to the former than the latter, and more Townes Van Zandt than either,...

9/28/2008
Later... with Jools Holland

Later... with Jools Holland

While touring in the UK this fall, Hayes Carll stopped by Later... with Jools Holland to perform "She Left Me For Jesus" in the studio.   Follow this link to watch his set.

9/25/2008
Q&A with Texas Monthly

Q&A with Texas Monthly

The 32-year-old singer-songwriter grew up in the Woodlands. His third album, Trouble in Mind (Lost Highway), was released to rave reviews in April, and he has been working nonstop ever since. He just filmed a video of his hit “She Left Me for Jesus.” ...

9/25/2008
Reminds Me of My Own Trouble In Mind

Reminds Me of My Own Trouble In Mind

I’ve been listening to Hayes Carll’s latest album, Trouble in Mind, nonstop since I bought it a couple of weeks ago. It’s funny how certain music draws you in — like you’ve always loved it, like you’ve somehow lived it or have always known. I feel this...

9/12/2008
Hayes Carll is Coming for YOU!

Hayes Carll is Coming for YOU!

Hayes Carll is coming for you, young rock fans. He will make a country music believer out of you. He'll have none of this namby-pamby, softly-strummed, lightly twang-tinged, big city “alt-country” stuff, either. Don't let his history degree from Hendrix...

8/18/2008
Carll's Corner: Riverside & Barton Springs

Carll's Corner: Riverside & Barton Springs

If Threadgill’s south location holds 600, there seemed to be 750 on hand to hear bearded singer-songwriter Hayes Carll Saturday night. The lines for beer were 20-30 people deep for most of the 90-minute set, as Carll’s rowdy and witty beach rat songs...

8/4/2008
Rowdy Rock Finds a Sensitive Side

Rowdy Rock Finds a Sensitive Side

Hayes Carll made a stir in Americana music with his self-released 2004 album, Little Rock. He's matured some since then, and maturity...

7/30/2008
Huntsville Preview: Hayes Carll

Huntsville Preview: Hayes Carll

In college towns, there are always three things: wild bars, cheap Jagerbombs and singer/songwriters. That formula holds true for lots of towns - except Conway, Ark., home of Hendrix College. Conway is located in a dry county. "There were no...

7/25/2008
Louisville Preview: Hayes Carll

Louisville Preview: Hayes Carll

Texas singer-songwriter Hayes Carll recently put out an exceptional album. Trouble in Mind is Carll’s third — and once again, he shows himself as one of the brightest and most self-effacing figures you’ll see taking to a roadhouse stage. Sometimes he’s...

7/23/2008
Tampa Preview: Hayes Carll

Tampa Preview: Hayes Carll

It's one thing for a Texas singer-songwriter to draw comparisons to the greats who preceded him. It's another to co-write with a couple of them. Hayes Carll "evokes Townes Van Zandt lyrically, Guy Clark emotionally, Steve Earle stylistically and...

7/17/2008
Carll: Keeping His Texas Perspective

Carll: Keeping His Texas Perspective

Despite the mainstream media attention he's receiving these days, Texas-based singer-songwriter Hayes Carll insists that he's same guy he's always been. However, he also adds, "I don't do much around the house anymore. If my wife asks me to do something,...

7/16/2008
Greenville Preview: Hayes Carll

Greenville Preview: Hayes Carll

After having mild success with two independent albums during the past five years, Hayes Carll seems poised for a major breakthrough with his latest effort. The talented Texas singer-songwriter recently released a new album, 'Trouble in Mind,' on...

7/14/2008
Awendaw Preview: Hayes Carll

Awendaw Preview: Hayes Carll

Make no mistake about it, Hayes Carll has no intentions of reading this. The truth is, he's aware of the reviews and stories that are being written about him these days, especially after being nominated for two major Americana Music Association...

7/14/2008
Awendaw Preview: Hayes Carll

Awendaw Preview: Hayes Carll

You — you look like you could use a quick trip outta Dodge. Maybe you’ve been meaning to take in a little summer music under the stars but one of those big outdoor festivals is too much: time, money, gas! Still, a chance to kick back in the green grass...

7/13/2008
Trouble In Mind: A- Review!

Trouble In Mind: A- Review!

Texas singer-songwriter Carll makes nouveau-outlaw country, poetic diction delivered with a rasp (a lover who "likes to lay naked and be gazed upon," indeed).  His best melodies are honky-tonk lamentations, with detours into banjo-plunking balladry ("Girl...

6/4/2008
3.5 (of 4) Stars for Trouble In Mind

3.5 (of 4) Stars for Trouble In Mind

This Texas troubadour displays both heart (the aching "Don't Let Me Fall") and humor (the hilarious "She Left Me for Jesus") on an alt-country disc that gives Ryan Adams something to worry about. Album Rating: 3 1/2 Stars (out of 4)

6/2/2008
4 Stars of Trouble In Mind

4 Stars of Trouble In Mind

Hayes Carll works in the hallowed tradition of smart-aleck Texas singer/songwriters (like Ray Wylie Hubbard, who co-wrote one song here) whose shaggy-dog stories always seem to have a poetic twist. The 12 originals on Trouble In Mind—which also sports...

6/2/2008
Hayes Carll - LA Times

Hayes Carll - LA Times

NASHVILLE -- Hayes Carll, 32, arranges his long limbs around a high-top table in the bar of a trendy Nashville restaurant. He's clearly out of place, but frequenting these locales comes with the new visibility he's earned as one of the most talked about...

5/26/2008
Hayes Carll HUGE feature in American Songwriter

Hayes Carll HUGE feature in American Songwriter

With his stringy blond hair and hangdog expression, Hayes Carll looks like any other kid riding the counter third shift at a 7-Eleven or stringing phone wire somewhere beyond the realm of life as lived in the suburbs. It’s not shiftless; he’s not that...

5/26/2008
FOUR STARS for Trouble In Mind

FOUR STARS for Trouble In Mind

The tone is spot-on and the songs have just the right amount of heft, humour and humanity. You can see why Guy Clark championed this 32-year-old Texan and co-wrote with him on his last album.  Even then Carll's own songs stood out. There are 14 on his...

5/26/2008
Portland, OR Redux: Hayes Carll

Portland, OR Redux: Hayes Carll

I keep hearing about people who need closure. Things must be resolved, the package must be wrapped, the ribbon strapped tight, the bow affixed and fluffed. Don't forget the card -- thinking of you! -- and then, boom, closure. Everything makes sense now,...

5/25/2008
Three Stars for Trouble In Mind

Three Stars for Trouble In Mind

This Texas coaster covers plenty of bases on his third album, many of them alcoholic, and the tastiest perched between stadium rockabilly and Dylan-worship rock. Whether he’s feeling nostalgic for small-town foibles or fancying himself a drunken poet...

5/24/2008
FOUR STAR Review for Trouble In Mind

FOUR STAR Review for Trouble In Mind

Self-Made Americana Hero Loses his Girl to the Son of God... For fans of John Prine or Todd Snider, 32-year-old Texan Hayes Carll is a familiar type—a mush-mouthed drawler who's smarter about the beat than his shambling ways would make you think and...

5/23/2008
San Diego Preview: Hayes Carll

San Diego Preview: Hayes Carll

Hayes Carll, at 32, is poised to join the pantheon of great Texas songwriters. Last week, his remarkable third album, "Trouble in Mind," was nominated for an Americana Music Award, with Carll earning another nod for the hilarious song "She Left Me for...

5/23/2008
San Francisco Preview: Hayes Carll

San Francisco Preview: Hayes Carll

Looks like the third time's a charm for Texan singer-songwriter Hayes Carll  - the rough 'n' tumble country-folk outlaw has just released album number three, Trouble in Mind (Lost Highway), and it's a huge leap forward for the guy. Not only does his...

5/23/2008
Portland Preview: Hayes Carll

Portland Preview: Hayes Carll

Let's say you're into pop music. Rock, country, alt-rock, alt-country, alt-whatever. You already know who you like, but where do you go to find new stuff you might like just as much or even more? That used to be the radio's job. You'd turn...

5/23/2008
Trouble In Mind: Songs of Heartbreak, Drifters, Barflies & Journeymen

Trouble In Mind: Songs of Heartbreak, Drifters, Barflies & Journeymen

Though only in his early 30s, Hayes Carll seemed to have taken the long way 'round. But his way. The Texas singer-songwriter follows in the long line of the Lone Star State's tradition of hard-worn songwriters who share an equal love for folk and...

5/22/2008
Denver Preview: Hayes Carll

Denver Preview: Hayes Carll

In “Crystal Beach Memories,” an animated video accessible at www.FunnyOrDie.com, 32-year-old singer-songwriter Hayes Carll remembers his early gigs at Bob’s Sports Bar and World Famous Grille, a Texas eatery that promoted his appearances with a sign...

5/22/2008
Hayes Carll Makes his PLAYGIRL Debut

Hayes Carll Makes his PLAYGIRL Debut

If you prefer your country musicians to be poets with drinking problems rather than cowboys who drive SUVs, meet the aloof Hayes Carll.  This Texas bred singer-songwriter, whose easygoing demeanor is leftover from his years spent dwelling in shacks on the...

5/22/2008
Little Rock Preview: Hayes Carll

Little Rock Preview: Hayes Carll

As with many a liberal arts student, Hendrix College in Conway prepared Hayes Carll for jobs waiting tables at Red Lobster, digging ditches and tending bar. But the graduate with a history degree and a minor in theater also learned how to think for...

5/12/2008
Trouble In Mind: Sharp, Roadhouse-Friendly Songs

Trouble In Mind: Sharp, Roadhouse-Friendly Songs

Hayes Carll pines for lost youth differently than Tom Waits or The Ramones. (“Pine” isn’t really a verb you’d apply to the latter two.) Waits growled through the ramshackle original version of “I Don’t Wanna Grow Up,” and The Ramones sawed through...

5/12/2008
Corpus Christi Preview: Roll in the Hayes

Corpus Christi Preview: Roll in the Hayes

Hayes Carll is easily misunderstood. A singer-songwriter with an eye for wry observation and a gift for clever couplets, Carll's new album, "Trouble in Mind," is the first indication The Woodlands-bred songsmith has a knack for keeping people on...

5/12/2008
Nashville Preview: Hayes Carll

Nashville Preview: Hayes Carll

Time was you could use the phrase "Texas singer-songwriter" and there'd be no mistaking that you were talking about the literate, rough-hewn, folk- and blues-based songs of Lone Star troubadours like Rodney Crowell and Guy Clark. Over the past...

5/7/2008
Carll's No Depression

Carll's No Depression

Hayes Carll is featured in No Depression's May-June (and final) issue.  Click on the links below to read this in-depth and fantastic article: Page One / Page Two / Page Three

5/1/2008
Carll: A Voice Worth Noting

Carll: A Voice Worth Noting

ESSENTIAL "Bad Liver and Broken Heart" Authentic voices are so rare these days, it's easy to overpraise newcomers but Carll's debut ushers in a compelling major voice. Following in the tradition of his many Texas predecessors, Carll delivers a...

5/1/2008
THREE STARS for Trouble In Mind

THREE STARS for Trouble In Mind

Religion is a regular theme in country music, but it isn't often you hear a country singer vowing to administer a beating to Christ, as Hayes Carll does in "She Left Me For Jesus." Carll isn't being blasphemous; he's simply singing smart, funny lyrics...

4/29/2008
An "A" for Trouble In Mind

An "A" for Trouble In Mind

The Houston native cements his credentials as the next great Texas troubadour on his major-label debut, arriving in stores Tuesday. Like Guy Clark and Steve Earle, Carll has the Texas twang and lazy drawl to bring out the boot-stomping good ol’ boy in...

4/29/2008
Carll: A Hero In Texas

Carll: A Hero In Texas

In today's fast-paced, super-connected wired world, the idea of regional scenes seems almost quaint, like rotary phones and 8-tracks. But, man, Hayes Carll sounds like Texas in the best way possible - his wit as pointed as a true cowboy's...

4/29/2008
5 STARS for Trouble In Mind

5 STARS for Trouble In Mind

Texas singer-songwriter Hayes Carll comes from the same fertile territory that yielded such iconic troubadours as Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark. On Trouble in Mind, his Lost Highway debut after two independently released albums, Carll...

4/29/2008
B+ for Trouble In Mind

B+ for Trouble In Mind

Why we care: With a hang-dog delivery slathered in twang and tough luck, this eccentric Texan traverses the backwoods distance between the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan (with a little Roger Miller thrown in for comic relief). Singer-songwriters don't get...

4/29/2008
Hayes Carll: One To Watch

Hayes Carll: One To Watch

On his Lost Highway debut, this Houston-based country-rock crooner covers Tom Waits' "I Don't Wanna Grow Up," but judging by the rest of "Trouble in Mind," it might be too late for Hayes Carll. The fine songwriting here, rich with Texas-music echoes,...

4/29/2008
Three Stars for Trouble In Mind

Three Stars for Trouble In Mind

The first of many girls who whirl through Carll’s third album likes him to watch her naked. That makes her a drunken poet’s dream, to his mind, and this Texas troubadour’s happy to play that dreamer. Carll’s characters have problems with commitment,...

4/29/2008
Carll: Texas Songwriter Finding His Way on the Road

Carll: Texas Songwriter Finding His Way on the Road

Texas troubadour Hayes Carll wanted to be a writer long before he wanted to be a musician. ``When I found that I could become a songwriter and not have to do 300 pages, but maybe achieve the same kind of thing in three minutes, I dove pretty heavily into...

4/29/2008
Trouble In Mind: Odes to Drinking, Broken Hearts & the Glories of the Music Circuit

Trouble In Mind: Odes to Drinking, Broken Hearts & the Glories of the Music Circuit

Texas troubadour Ray Wylie Hubbard is alive and well, so there's no need to seek his replacement. If there were, though, fellow Texan Hayes Carll would do a fine job. In fact, Carll's Lost Highway debut opens with a song he co-wrote with Hubbard. "Drunken...

4/29/2008
Trouble In Mind: Style, Grace & Flair

Trouble In Mind: Style, Grace & Flair

Heartaches, disappointment, perseverance and recovery are topics that Hayes Carll brilliantly examines in his strong new CD. Besides singing about all these with depth and conviction, the stories and lyrics in such songs as "Drunken Poet's Dream," "Bad...

4/29/2008
Trouble In Mind: Top Contender for 2008

Trouble In Mind: Top Contender for 2008

Listen up, dusty songwriter freaks: I've made a major discovery. Texas troubadour Hayes Carll reminds me of so many of the greats, my head spins like it's full of whiskey. I hear John Prine, Todd Snider, Townes Van Zandt, Tom Waits (he covers a Waits...

4/29/2008
Carll's Hard-Won Wisdom

Carll's Hard-Won Wisdom

With his first two albums, Flowers and Liquor and Little Rock, Hayes Carll joined the long line of take-no-prisoners Texas troubadours such as Guy Clark, Ray Wylie Hubbard and Steve Earle (the first two have already cowritten with him). Trouble in Mind...

4/29/2008
Trouble In Mind: Roadhouse Americana

Trouble In Mind: Roadhouse Americana

Hayes Carll’s voice is a scraped-up Texas rasp. The music on his third album, “Trouble in Mind” (Lost Highway), has cleaned up a little — it’s his move to a major label — yet still sounds like roadhouse Americana: plinking banjo in some songs, honky-tonk...

4/22/2008
3 1/2 Stars for Trouble In Mind

3 1/2 Stars for Trouble In Mind

It's hard to decide right away which is more impressive, this 28-year-old Texan's delightfully crafted tales of life in the bars and side roads of rural America or the vibrant music he couches them in, a rootsy, country-based stew thick with roadhouse...

4/13/2008
Carll: Another Texas Troubadour, Smarter & Funnier than Most

Carll: Another Texas Troubadour, Smarter & Funnier than Most

Texas singer-songwriters aren't so much a genre as an infestation. They spring up like a hill of fire ants—overnight you could find a handful clogging up your empty stage and begging for a bar tab. You can't necessarily make a killing burning oil from...

4/13/2008
Hayes Carll Q&A – Texas Music Magazine

Hayes Carll Q&A – Texas Music Magazine

Hayes Carll blasted his career out of a cannon in 2004. The Woodlands native’s sophomore effort, Little Rock – a salt vortex of machetes and memories that measured a young poet’s wanderlust against a seasoned brawler’s will – became the...

4/11/2008
Trouble In Mind: Edgy, Outlaw Attitude

Trouble In Mind: Edgy, Outlaw Attitude

“I’m wild as a turkey under a Christmas moon / I’m as empty as my wallet on a Sunday afternoon.” That adroit couplet sums up Hayes Carll’s insurgent stance, now in full bloom on his pointedly titled third album. Carll’s devil-may-care spit and swagger...

4/10/2008
Healthy Grin of World-Weary Songs & Half-Heartbreaking Ballads

Healthy Grin of World-Weary Songs & Half-Heartbreaking Ballads

With Trouble In Mind, Hayes Carll staggers back, safely, into the Americana spotlight with a healthy grin of world-weary songs and half-heartbreaking ballads. Following his self-released Little Rock won’t be easy, as it perched at the #1 spot on the...

4/10/2008
Hayes Carll: Honest Emotion and Sardonic Wit

Hayes Carll: Honest Emotion and Sardonic Wit

Hayes Carll might be the perfect artist to introduce (or perhaps reintroduce) fans of pop country to genuine country music. On his third album, Trouble In Mind, Carll keeps things gritty enough to appeal to alt-country and traditional country purists...

4/9/2008
Another 4-Star Review for Trouble In Mind!

Another 4-Star Review for Trouble In Mind!

Far too much of the country music coming out today is “successful” in achieving a very limited aim; to be enjoyable by leaning heavily on pop-rock conventions while using the lyrics to vaguely define the emotional point of the song and to provide just...

4/9/2008
Hayes Carll has Trouble In Mind

Hayes Carll has Trouble In Mind

Hayes Carll is a Texas singer/songwriter, which is a categorical description that holds a lot of artistic weight. After all, this subset also includes Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle and Townes Van Zandt. And heck, let's not forget Willie Nelson and Waylon...

4/8/2008
Carll's Best In Texas

Carll's Best In Texas

Willie Nelson. Shelby Lynne. Van Morrison. Hayes Carll. In order, new international releases by those four artists were rolled out by Lost Highway Records in March and early April. Country and pop music fans spanning several...

4/8/2008
An "A" for Trouble In Mind

An "A" for Trouble In Mind

“I’m gonna holler / And I’m gonna scream / I’m gonna get me some Mescaline.” Picture Steve Earle at his booziest singing that line from “Drunken Poet’s Dream” and you’re most of the way to understanding what this third album from Stephen King’s favorite...

4/7/2008
AP Review: Trouble In Mind

AP Review: Trouble In Mind

Hayes Carll sings about gamblers and ramblers, yet he flashes his cards right upfront on Trouble in Mind," his first major-label album and third overall. The 32-year-old Texan opens with "Drunken Poet's Dream," co-written with longtime Lone Star...

4/7/2008
Carll Feature

Carll Feature

Music writer Andy Langer featured Hayes Carll in the April 8th revoew on NPR. The segment is 14 minutes long... Wanna skip straight to Hayes?  His review begins at 10:50 mintues. LISTEN NOW

4/7/2008
Catching Up with Hayes Carll

Catching Up with Hayes Carll

Trouble in mind He was born in The Woodlands, but stints in other places have deepened Hayes Carll's outlook on life. And when it's time for the singer/songwriter to get busy, he often goes to a place or recalls a time — the unhappier, the better — to...

4/5/2008
B+ for Trouble in Mind

B+ for Trouble in Mind

B+ Basic Story Um, how to describe? Dude from Texas with backward name plays country rock? The extra "l" is, presumably, for extra lovin'. Sample Grab "It's girls like this that keep me tryin' / She goes off like an...

4/4/2008
Carll: No Longer a Mess in Texas

Carll: No Longer a Mess in Texas

Hayes Carll has just released his third album, Trouble In Mind. His first, Flowers And Liquor, for Compadre Records, was produced by Lisa Morales of Sisters Morales. His second, Little Rock, released independently, was produced by R. S. Field. One of...

4/2/2008
Houston Magazine: Carll's Going Coastal

Houston Magazine: Carll's Going Coastal

Singer-songwriter Hayes Carll took an unusual road to success. Born in the suburbs of Houston, he moved to the Galveston area, of all places, to jump-start his career as a musician in his twenties. And it actually worked; Carll is finally enjoying the...

4/2/2008
Trouble In Mind: "Rugged Country Folk-Rock"

Trouble In Mind: "Rugged Country Folk-Rock"

The Americana singer/songwriter rises from the Stephen King approved indie ranks to the major-label sweepstakes on his third release, and first for Lost Highway. It's a strong if characteristic collection of rugged country folk-rock sung with Hayes Carll'...

4/2/2008
Trouble In Mind: FIVE STARS!

Trouble In Mind: FIVE STARS!

Behold a most uncommon pleasure: Romantic poetry cresting a wave of rapid-fire rock ’n’ roll. “I’ve got a girl out in Henrietta, and her love is like tornado weather,” Hayes Carll sings on the swelling cautionary tale “A Bad Liver and a Broken Heart.”...

4/1/2008
Trouble In Mind: Fine Irony

Trouble In Mind: Fine Irony

Modern journalism is rife with incorrect uses of the word ironic (mostly I blame Alanis Morissette). I guess it’s become a pet peeve of mine. Which is why the first thing to grab my attention on Trouble In Mind was that the only song Hayes Carll...

3/20/2008
Hayes Carll, SXSW Review

Hayes Carll, SXSW Review

Seems like every year I come to South By Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, I find myself penciling in a showcase by Hayes Carll. He's been threatening to make a new album for a while, and finally it's done -- and well worth the wait. At a midnight show on Cedar...

3/17/2008
Hayes Carll in SESAC Magazine

Hayes Carll in SESAC Magazine

Check out a feature on Hayes Carll from SESAC Magazine. Click here to read.

2/20/2008
King's Approval

King's Approval

Hayes Carll, who will release Trouble In Mind with Lost Highway on April 8, has received the stamp of approval from everyone's favorite horror author/music aficionado Stephen King. Click here to read King's praise for Carll and the author's other 2007...

2/20/2008
KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories)

KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories)

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