"Talented and lovely..."

.... so said the host at the Carrie Rodriguez show we saw last night at the Cactus Cafe. "Talented" is an understatement. You wouldn't believe the voice on this Chica and the way she plays the mondoguitar and fiddle, like they are living things. And "lovely", well yes, she's gorgeous and mesmerizing stomping her perfect, little high healed foot and closing her big brown eyes -- but it's more than that -- she physically and authentically inhabits the range of emotions that accompany well written songs. Fresh from tours with Lucinda Williams and Alejandro Escoveda and with a stable of A list collaborators including, Malcolm Burn, Chip Taylor, Gary Loris and Tim Boquiest, Carrie has been tapped by the singer song writer gods to ascend to the great heavens.

Carrie and her family have a strong connection to our Neighborhood here in Clarksville. In fact Carrie was raving about the cheese burgers at Nau's Enfield Drug Store during the show last night. Nau's is an old timey soda fountain/pharmacy down the block. Her Mother was in the audience and piped up to say she'd ate them when Carrie was just a little bun in the oven. This kind of 6 degrees of separation or rather connection to talent and loveliness warms my heart.

Fellow fan set me strait on a comment suggesting a better video clip.
Video sample of Carrie and Chip playing Wild Thing