Carrie Rodriguez
Back Porch is proud to announce the release of Carrie Rodriguez’s She Ain’t Me on August 5th, 2008. She Ain’t Me is Rodriguez’s second record, following her debut solo record Seven Angels on a Bicycle. The new album is produced by Malcolm Burn and features Rodriguez on vocals, tenor guitar, fiddle, and electric mandolin, Hans Holzen on electric guitar, Greg Leisz on pedal steel, lap steel, acoustic & electric guitars, and electric mando guitar, Kyle Kegerreis on acoustic & electric basses, Aaron Comess on drums, and Malcolm Burn on piano, keyboards, Hammond B-3, programming, electric guitar, electric bass.
Not yet 30, and with a critically-acclaimed solo record and several well-received duet records in her wake, the classically trained singer/songwriter has just begun flexing her artistic muscles, still figuring out how far her talents will take her. If you’re looking for someone playing it safe and sticking to tried-and-true ways of music making, as the title of Rodriguez’s daring new album aptly states, SHE AIN’T ME. “Because I took some chances, wrote with some new people and actually co-wrote most of the songs on the album, it’s very different,” Rodriguez notes.
The songs on SHE AIN’T ME, Rodriguez’s second solo outing for Manhattan/Back Porch, come from an introspective place, rife with self-assessment and questioning. “It comes from having to really look within yourself when you’re forced to be alone, and to not be afraid of that process,” Rodriguez says. “Taking some time off from the road this year to write allowed me to do some growing and reflecting that I often put aside when I’m touring all the time.”
