Musicians Hayes Carll and Jack Ingram have been friends a long time, Carll says.
"We'd trade songs, and we'd trade stories. We'd hold singer-songwriter evenings, and it was so much fun, we decided to do it again."
FAQ
Hayes Carll
With Jack Ingram
WHEN — 8:30 p.m. Nov. 11
WHERE — George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville
COST — $25-$30
INFO — georgesmajesticloun…, hayescarll.com
Carll and Ingram -- who both grew up in The Woodlands, Texas, near Houston -- will share that fun Nov. 11 with fans at George's Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville.
Ingram was a few years older, but he really inspired Carll during his high school years. "He was starting to get success straight out of college," Carll relates. "Somebody sent me to him, and he offered advice and support. I was stoked having such a friend at the beginning of my career."
"[Carll] received his first guitar at the age of 15 and almost immediately began writing songs influenced by the likes of Bob Dylan, John Prine, Kris Kristofferson, Dead Poets Society, and the Beat novels and writings of Jack Kerouac, all of which continued to reverberate in his mature songwriting style," reads his Apple Music biography. "[Now he's] firmly established as a next-generation singer and writer in the Townes Van Zandt/Guy Clark/Ray Wylie Hubbard style of maverick country-folk."
For college, Carll looked for a small liberal arts school, "someplace that I would not get lost and would know that I wanted to write music" -- and it turned out to be Hendrix College in Conway. His uncle, a minister, was not far away in Little Rock. "But it turns out I was in a dry county and there were no bars, nowhere to play," he says with a laugh.
Carll graduated in 1998 with a history degree, but he says that's not an influence on his songwriting.
"I really didn't retain much," he admits with another laugh.
A few more runs with Ingram, and Carll says he will lay low until his new recording on Duotone comes out this spring.
"We just got the release dates, so I'm not sure how much I can say about it," he says. "But I'll say it's songs about relationships and bigger things, love and everything else."
The project will no doubt be fronted by "Magnolia Wind," a single released last month.
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