Tag Archives: Hayes Carll

Deleted Scene: Hayes Carll

Posted on November 7, 2011 | Leave a comment

Hayes Carll's devotion to the songwriter's art entails contemplating sex with Ann Coulter if necessary.

I’m a big fan of Austin singer-songwriter Hayes Carll, whose work I have written about before. I talked to him last week for Washingtonian; you can read that here. In honor of his appearance at the Birchmere tonight, I’d like to share a question I asked him when last I interviewed him, in June of this year. I wasn’t able to use what he said in the piece I wrote then, so here it is now for you enjoyment and/or edification. Take it away, Me. Continue reading →

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Hayes Carll Gets James Carville & Mary Matalin to Show Up in His Video

Posted on July 22, 2011 | Leave a comment

Hayes Carll's devotion to the songwriter's art entails contemplating sex with Ann Coulter if necessary.

I’ve been doing the Capital Fringe Festival and not a ton else this month, but I did cheat on Fringe & Purge long enough to write this little ditty about Hayes Carll, a country singer-songwriter whose KMAG YOYO is one of my favorite records so far this year. Fun fact: He grew up in The Woodlands, TX, which are the very suburbs that inspired one of my favorite records from last year, Arcade Fire‘s The Suburbs.

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Hayes Carll at the RnR Hotel

Posted on December 8, 2008 | Leave a comment

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Reviewed for the Paper of Record.

The Setlist:

01 Drunken Poet’s Dream
02 Wild as a Turkey
03 Beaumont
04 I Got a Gig
05 Faulker Street
06 Rivertown
07 Little Rock
08 Arkansas Blues
09 Good Friends
10 Bad Liver and a Broken Heart
11 Girl Downtown
12 Chickens
13 She Left Me for Jesus
14 I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
15 (new Christmas song written “just the other day”)
16 Highway 87
17 Down the Road Tonight

ENCORE:
18 Long Way Home
19 Wish I Hadn’t Stayed So Long
20 A Lover Like You

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I Am Prolific as Hell.

Posted on April 7, 2008 | Leave a comment

Nick Cave’s new album gets an A-grade in Media Mix, and the backwards-named Texan Hayes Carll comes close.

Also in yesterday Paper of Record, a little interview with the man who gets my vote for greatest broadcast journalist alive, excerpted from a much longer conversation we had last week. I’m hoping to post more of that soon.

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