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Ben Carroll

Real Thing In Stores Now

About Me

Ben Carroll comes from a musical family, the son of members of the Grammy-winning Starland Vocal Band, best known for their number 1 hit Afternoon Delight in 1976. He's performed alongside Grammy-winner John Legend on The Today Show on NBC television, and has shared the stage with many other great artists around North America and Europe. Amore Magazine's reader poll voted Carroll a top solo artist, and his songwriting and performance were recently recognized by BMI in New York.

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Member Since: 6/28/2005
Band Website: bencarroll.com
Band Members:
Ben - Voice, Guitar, Percussion
Jon Carroll - Voice, Keys, Guitar, Percussion
Dave Dawda, Greg Richardson - Bass
Mike Riddleberger - Drums
Nick Kendall - Violin

Sounds Like: Real Thing , the second album from American singer-songwriter Ben Carroll, is a collection of 11 original songs that expose Carroll's deep soul and folk influences, and tell stories of longing, hope, murder, love and even jubilee. Real Thing was produced with Ben’s dad Jon Carroll, a Grammy-winning artist and veteran arranger/producer. The record was just released October 1, 2007 on Orchid Music, the new sister label of Orchid Classics.

“The Orchid label holds plenty of surprises yet.”
-Time Out London

Lover Undercover (Luckytone Records, 2005) is Ben's debut album. A Simple Kind, Dola Rosa, Angel's Arms and Lover Undercover are all songs from the album being played on FM and Satellite radio, and MTV and Country Music Television place Carroll's songs in lots of their shows.

"There are no frills or large cinematic productions (on Lover Undercover), but rather the songs are unadorned, bare and vulnerable like a newborn baby, and enraptured in the same innocence." -Northeast In-Tune

{Directed by Shane Tilston}

Record Label: Orchid Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Real Thing Out Now

The new album is available now! Click the link on the myspace page to pick up your copy and read a bit about it. We also will be selling it at the upcoming shows. The official release for UK record st...
Posted by Ben Carroll on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:43:00 PST

"Im Your Man"

Well my friends all of this running around is well and good because things must get done, but everything in balance. ...I've just seen "I'm Your Man", the film on and of Leonard Cohen and his works, a...
Posted by Ben Carroll on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:57:00 PST

Interview in Upstage Magazine

Interview with Gary Wien just published in Upstage Magazine - see you at the Black Potatoe Festival!"BEN CARROLL: SOUL SINGING IS BACK IN STYLE"Growing up in the shadows of music history, it was proba...
Posted by Ben Carroll on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:24:00 PST

New Album Out October 07

The new album is done mixing and will be out in stores October 2007 on the Orchid Music label in the UK (and on the web for everyone). I'm very happy with what we've done, and I'm very lucky and grate...
Posted by Ben Carroll on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 09:31:00 PST

BMI Songwriting Workshop

BMI picked me to be one of a few songwriters to participate in their 2007 Contemporary Professional Songwriting Workshop, running for eight weeks in New York City this Spring. We will be professionall...
Posted by Ben Carroll on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:34:00 PST

Recording Done

We just finished recording the new album earlier this week, and these few songs are a preview. There's still more recording studio knob-twirling and CD packaging to be done in the next couple months--...
Posted by Ben Carroll on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:32:00 PST

Interview on SMtv

I am the featured artist of the week on Samantha Murphy's radio show/podcast SMtv. 3 new songs are on the show (one of them live with Jon Carroll on accordion) as well as an interview that we had a lo...
Posted by Ben Carroll on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:07:00 PST