Born: 1978
Hometown: Austin, TX

How You Know Her: Discovered by legendary songwriter Chip Taylor of "Wild Thing" fame, Carrie has seamlessly mixed her hokey Texican upbringing with toe-tapping jazz and the unmistakable I'm-from-the-South sounds of her mean fiddling. In support of her latest studio release titled Love & Circumstance (April release), the newly minted New York City gal is keeping Los Lonely Boys company on the West Coast leg of the Acoustic Brotherhood Tour. 

So, What's 'Good' Music? "One major thing is the ability of songs to touch people...Also I like a song that can affect people from all different kinds of backgrounds. You don’t have to have a certain kind of upbringing or social status to be affected by those songs..." —No Depression