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carnivaleros

Tucson, Arizona
56 Years Old
Composer, Songwriter
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BIOGRAPHY
carnivaleros.com
myspace.com/carnivaleros
LEVEL
semi-pro
GENRES
Folk, World/Latin/Other, Cajun/Zydeco
Contact
Management: self
Administrative: Gary Mackender
P.R.O.
ASCAP
INSTRUMENTS
accordion / b3 organ / bass / drums / percussion / piano
INFLUENCES
Thelonious Monk to Richard Thompson, Los Lobos to Tom Waits...
DAY JOB
Photographer, visual artist and musician
I AM INTERESTED IN
in pitching songs to tv
I WRITE:
It's my second job

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music
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AWARDS & ACCOLADES
Arizona Blues Hall of Fame Lifetime Member
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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Spoon: The Power of Transference

In 1995, Spoon were often dubbed “the next Pixies.” The tag never quite fit, but the two did share a love for writing glorious pop songs and then shrouding them with walls of noise and mystery. Over 15 years, the Austin, Texas band have survived lineup shuffles and early record label neglect, finding their signature style with 2001’s Girls Can Tell and quietly building one of the strongest rock catalogs of the decade.

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