Carsie Blanton
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
<p>“If I had an all-encompassing rule for life, it’d be that you have to follow your heart.” Carsie Blanton says. “It doesn’t mean that everything it tells you is going to be smart, but you have to follow it anyway.”</p> <p>Following her heart has worked out pretty well for Carsie, earning her widespread critical acclaim and a coast-to-coast fan following for her clever wordplay and indelible melodies. The remarkable new <em>Idiot Heart</em> represents the Philadelphia-based singer/songwriter’s finest work thus far, a panoramic collection of exuberant, expansive folk-pop, crafted with uncommon spirit and ingenuity. Songs such as “Together Too Long” and “Backbone” are given breath by producer Oliver Wood’s warm, unaffected arrangements and Blanton’s remarkable vocal stylings, at turns coy and confident, sly and sensual. <em>Idiot Heart</em> reveals Carsie Blanton to be a preternaturally gifted storyteller whose extraordinary life experiences fuel her open, knowing lyricism, using finely etched characterizations and a deeply personal perspective to touch a truly universal chord.</p> <p>“I feel like my strength as a lyricist is not poetry, it’s telling the truth,” she says. “I say the things that everybody wants to say but doesn’t usually get to.</p> <p>Carsie has mastered her craft the old-fashioned way, by playing over a hundred shows a year both as headliner and as support to such artists as Joan Osborne, John Oates, David Wilcox, Jimmy Webb, and Loudon Wainwright III. In addition, she’s toured Europe, performed on NPR’s famed <em>Mountain Stage</em>, and taken part in stage productions of Anaïs Mitchell’s acclaimed <em>Hadestown: A Folk Opera</em>.</p> <p>“Traveling all the time is a great way to take in new information,” she says. “You’re always on an adventure, meeting new people and getting the stories of their lives. It’s the best way for me to continue to get inspired about people.”</p> <p>Carsie is approaching the release of <em>Idiot Heart</em> from the same clear-cut stance that she tackles her life and music. Having funded the project by raising $30,000 from fans, she now plans to simply bestow the record upon her audience, inviting them to use Quidplayer to pay what they like for downloads or physical CDs.</p> <p>“My true calling as an artist is to share,” she says. “What I actually want to do is make beautiful music and then give it to everyone, regardless of what they give me back. My number one goal is for people to hear it, and I have to trust that I’ll be taken care of.”</p> <p>Blessed with a distinctive voice – both as performer and songwriter – and an unfettered passion for making music, Carsie Blanton is truly something special, a marvelously original artist who is as forthright as she is ambitious.</p> <p>“This is just the only way I know how to be,” she says. “Being honest and direct is in my blood. It’s not something I can stop doing, really.”</p> <p> </p>
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