SINGING BISCUIT: Stand Up Eight

Singing Biscuit

Stand Up Eight

© 2003 Carrie Hamby, Greater Big Bend Music, BMI (783707792927)

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Low-carb, original songs with country roots and folk flavor. Tasty and good for you too.

tracks

1 Waiting for the Moon
2 Water Table Blues/Sweet Sunny South
3 Singing in the Meadow
4 Away O'ee/All for Nothing
5 Charlotte
6 Blackberry
7 Little Annie
8 Lowlands
9 City of the Future
10 One Man in Hell
11 Last Request
12 In the Fall
13 Solidago

notes

While training to be a concert pianist, Carrie Hamby moved to Florida at age 14. Around that time she alarmed her parents by hanging around with bluegrass musicians; by the time she got her driver's license, she had learned enough tunes on the guitar to be dangerous. She now divides her time between writing and singing original songs and playing accordion and upright bass in folk and bluegrass circles.

Performing solo and with her band Singing Biscuit, Carrie has gained a following at coffee houses, clubs and festivals throughout the state, including the annual Florida Folk Festival. Two of her songs have placed in the Top 10 in the annual new song contest at the Will McLean festival (willmclean.com).

"Stand Up Eight" has received favorable publicity on national radio shows, such as WFMT's "Midnight Special." Carrie also released a new song on the latest Cascades Collection, "Songs from the Rascalyard" (saltwatermusic.com) in 2004, which will be included on a new collection due out in early 2006.

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  • soothing to the ear at first listen
    author: nelda sue white

    just saw the name carrie hamby and singing biscuit and decided to give a couple of songs a listen. i was taken with the sound right away. listened to a bit of water table and lowlands and being a floridian i was curious about the others. weeks went by and it stayed in my mind so when i visited the site again i decided to order stand up eight. i'm surprised that they have not been on the national stage to my knowledge. they deserve to be there with music that doesn't assault your senses when you hear it.

  • Fine, well crafted songs, great music.
    author: Jerry Middaugh

    I heard Solidago on kbcs radio and immediately called to get the info on it. I bought the album on the basis of the song. As it turns out, all the songs are really good. The trad songs are well done, like 'Sweet Sunny South'. I think Carrie Hamby is a rare find. I'm happy to have stumbled onto her music. Jerry Middaugh, Seattle

  • author: susan

    I heard this cd by accident, and immediately dismissed it as "not my type of music." However, days later I still had some of the tunes in my head, and they began to grow on me. So, I purchased the cd, and I'm so glad I did! I really enjoy it, and it has turned me onto a new type of music.

  • Absolutely wonderful!
    author: Lloyd Simmons, Science Safari Educational Co.

    The music takes you into a daydream. Songs are soothing, thought provoking, even educational and just a delight to listen to. A wonderful CD to take on a road trip!

  • i love it!!!!
    author: erica

    I think Stand Up Eight it a wonderful album. The lyrics are interesting and give you a glimpse of the true florida. Many people have been to florida, but it's a very different place to those who have grown up here. The melodies are enchanting, and the harmonies are haunting...it's awesome. buy it buy it buy it!!!

  • Great writes, great crafting, great performance!
    author: BlueBass Recordings

    Digging deep into their Folk and Florida roots (with a dab of Bluegrass), Carrie and the Biscuits have cooked up a recipe for a delicious listening experience! A true winner here, all the material is excellent and the performances superb! Buy it!

  • Delightful experience
    author: Paula held

    These songs are wonderful. I'm really enjoying listening to them. The compositions are exquisite, lovely; the lyrics, the messages are so finely wrapped up in spirit. They're great. I'm still processing and listening, finding favorites. It's a musical adventure for me. The songs are sweetly layered, not busy; well constructed, yet they flow. There's lightness, and there's soul. The whole experience is delightful to me.

  • On Top 5 List
    author: Pete Gallagher, WMNF Tampa

    I really like your CD. Very well produced. One of the five best I have seen come my way this year.

  • Accordion in the right hands. Damn fine bunch of players.
    author: William A. Beckett, WUFT Program Director

    I've had the chance to hear Carrie around the camp grounds at the Florida Folk Festival and have always enjoyed those moments. You see and hear a lot of guitars, dobros, mandolins, banjos and fiddles around the camp grounds but the accordion is not plentiful. In the wrong hands it can be dangerous (as they all can) but in the right hands it adds something quite beautiful to the musical fabric. Carrie has the right hands and she adds that gentle breathy reed sound to many of the songs on this disc. She is also featured here on guitar and percussion as well as providing lead vocals. Her new CD is called Singing Biscuit: Stand Up Eight and features a fine assortment of songs written by Carrie as well as a nice selection of tunes that she covers with finesse. This CD is well recorded and is mixed in a way that highlights Carrie's voice and brings out its subtle qualities. The songs are arranged with care and all the parts work to build the whole. Even the gentle addition of some electric guitar on Blackberry and Last Request is delicately done and very tasteful. It also adds that extra something that the subject matter calls for, especially on Blackberry. I love her a-cappella version of Will McLean's Away O'ee which she merges with her own All For Nothing, a love song of sort for those who remember the way Florida once was. Her writing has something to say and she says it well, singing about maquiladora and gardens lost; phosphate mining and Solidago; Water Table Blues, canning plant hell and living on the wrong side. She doesn't beat you over the head with her point, she just make it well, like combining the Water Table Blues with Sweet Sunny South. What a nice way to close the case. Finally, a few words about the musicians. Damn Fine bunch of players. Doug Gauss, Angie Prather, Frank Graham and Dennis Hardin all add backing vocals for a nice harmony where needed. Some of it is so subtle that it takes a second hearing to pick it up. I like that. Mike Snelling is featured on both double bass and some lead guitar. He is joined in the lead guitar department by Frank Graham. The spice is added by David Leporati on Mandolin and Dennis Hardin on resophonic guitar and banjo as well as Carrie on an assortment of percussion instruments. There is nothing on the CD that clashes with the music or seems out of place; nothing that seems to have been thrown in as an afterthought or just for the hell of it. It's all crafted and you can tell each song was thought out carefully. I really appreciate that.

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