Carl Anderson Announces New EP YOU CAN CALL ME CARL

Today, the Nashville-based singer/songwriter Carl Anderson announced his new EP You Can Call Me Carl out May 31 via Tone Tree Music. Anderson has just released "Roses," the first single from the EP which Rolling Stone called, "...an EP of Seventies folk tinges, wistful bedroom pop and melancholic country heartache."

Stream "Roses" via YouTube:

https://youtu.be/4uhkfjuf6EI

"Even while 'Roses' finds Anderson slipping into sorrow, he doesn't dwell there," explains Rolling Stone's Thomas Mooney. "The lush and dreamy soundscape, while overcast at times, exudes an underlying hopeful resilience."

The EP was produced by acclaimed songwriter/producer Chris Keup during roughly ten days of raw, loose magic at White Star, a renovated barn-turned-studio located on farmland outside Charlottesville, VA. On the record is an all star backing band of Charlie Hall (The War On Drugs), Phil Cook (Hiss Golden Messenger), Daniel Clarke (Natalie Prass), and Rick Holstrom (Mavis Staples). The EP is lush but understated, with rich, rootsy arrangements underpinning Anderson's reedy voice as he grapples with the fallout from infidelity, heartbreak, and betrayal.

"I realized through this process that we're capable of handling a lot more pain than we think we can," says Anderson. "If that message can come through to even just one person who needs to hear it, then that's what it's all about."

Recently, Carl Anderson has written songs for artists like Andrew Combs, Devon Gilfillian, and Becca Mancari. In the coming weeks, Anderson will announce tour dates in support of the new EP.

You Can Call Me Carl Tracklist:

1) Bottom Of The Bottle

2) Roses

3) She Took Everything

4) Ten Different Reasons

5) Dream Of You

6) Head Hung Low

Credit: Laura E. Partain