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Carolyn Arends

Songs & Stories That Change the Way U Look @ Life.

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Member Since: 2/13/2006
Band Website: carolynarends.com
Band Members:

Spencer Capier
(duo partner)

Carolyn's partner in musical crime for 12 years. Genius multi-instrumentalist (guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, violin), excellent conversationalist, even if he is a little too fond of the limerick and the pun. His own instrumental disc, Plays Well With Others, is stellar, and he's increasingly in demand as a producer.

Roy Salmond
(associate producer)

Well-known producer, engineer, player of anything with keys, strings, or hittable surfaces, purveryor of Picasso quotes. Roy's been a part of a gazillion records but still approaches each project with passion, focus and a plethora of Picasso quotes. His studio, Whitewater Productions, is Carolyn's favourite place on earth to record music. Did we mention the Picasso quotes?

Adrian Walther
(bassist)

Once upon a time Adrian toured with Carolyn. Then Carolyn had a baby and took a maternity leave, so Adrian joined All Star United, moved on to various other killer projects, and became the rockstar bassist he is today. But he's still all over Carolyn's records, espcially the new one, Pollyanna's Attic, and if you're really, really lucky you might catch him on the odd live date with Carolyn and Spencer.

Phil Robertson
(drummer)

Phil is a Vancouver heavy-hitter (literally) who stunned and amazed with his grooves on the new project. Plus, he taught us how to identify drum fills as "Pat Boone Debbie Boones" and "Bette Middler Bette Middlers".


Other cool folks on the new project: Layton Howerton , Sheree Plett , Glen Soderholm , Gayle Salmond, and Kent Wallace (trumpet).

And while Pollyanna's Attic is chock full of Arends' originals, it also includes tunes from Pierce Pettis and Mark Heard, as well as collaborations with Connie Harrington, Dwight Liles, The Clumsy Lovers ' Chris Jonat, and the aforementioned Capier.
Influences: Beatles, Bach, James Taylor, Rich Mullins, Mark Heard, Pierce Pettis, Shawn Colvin, David Wilcox, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Sheryl Crow, Crowded House, Kim Hill's "Braveheart", Amy Grant's "Lead Me On", Randy Stonehill, Larry Norman, Ben Harper, Sam Phillips, Allison Krauss, Lyle Lovett, Elvis Costello, Steve Bell, Bob Bennett, Billy Crockett, Sarah Masen, later-era Bruce Cockburn (I know, sacrilege to the early-era fans), Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Jack Johnson, CS Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, Thomas Merton, Frederick Buechner, Malcom Muggeridge, Mark Buchanan, Anne Lamott, Brian McLaren and a whole bunch more ...
Sounds Like: Acoustic instrumentation, pop hooks, warm direct vocals, and songs that you like on the first listen and still love years later.
Record Label: 2B Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

NOT ALONE (Pollyanna Sneak Peek)

 NOT ALONE A few years ago the unthinkable happened to a dear friend  his niece was murdered the day she should have started kindergarten. Her death was senseless, and when people around the tra...
Posted by Carolyn Arends on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:38:00 PST

I'VE GOT A HOPE (Pollyanna Sneak Peek)

I'VE GOT A HOPE I have been a Pierce Pettis fan for about ten years now. Every time I think I've heard his best song, he releases 10 or 12 more. I'd hate him if I didn't love him so much! He wrote a s...
Posted by Carolyn Arends on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:34:00 PST

FREE (Pollyanna sneak peek)

FREE "Free" is a piece from my short-lived "protest-song" era, which occurred somewhere around my junior year in college. I had read an article by Roberta Croteau in which she pointed out that one of ...
Posted by Carolyn Arends on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 07:30:00 PST

NO TRESPASSING (Pollyanna sneak peek)

 NO TRESPASSING When I was a senior in University, every fourth year student was required to take a course entitled Interdisciplinary Studies, or IDIS 400. The course endeavored to define and en...
Posted by Carolyn Arends on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 07:27:00 PST

THE WASTELAND (Pollyanna Sneak Peek)

The guts of this song were written long ago. I always felt strongly about its message and used to love playing it with Spencer because he would do tripped out "wasteland" violin that painted the perfe...
Posted by Carolyn Arends on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:48:00 PST

Pollyanna Sneak Peaks

Over the next few weeks we'll be posting sneak peaks from Carolyn's new project: Pollyanna's Attic (releasing May 16, preorder here). To read lyrics and background about the songs, check out the blo...
Posted by Carolyn Arends on Sat, 06 May 2006 11:49:00 PST