Stripped down, acoustic demo of a story from a woman who has simply had enough of her husband’s meanderings.

Billy

Gritty, Stapleton-esque demo telling the story of three lives crossing paths at one random place.

Hotel By The Interstate

I wrote this song after the 2016 election, as I was taking off in a plane. Everything around me felt slightly off-kilter, and I imagined landing in a world I no longer recognized.

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I wrote this song as a letter to myself, after the birth of my son. I needed to be reminded that the person I was, although I was changed forever as a mother, was still there, and she was waiting for me.

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Stripped-down, acoustic version of a song I wrote about the power of finding the right ‘armor’ to help face the world.

Brocade

Heavily influenced by the music emanating from the old stereo, she sang along to the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Joni Mitchell and Fleetwood Mac. Soon, her parents would sit on the stairs and listen to the voice they didn’t know their daughter had. They then facilitated her audition for the prestigious high school Baltimore School for the Arts (Christian Siriano, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Tupac Shakur), where she began her rigorous vocal and musical training.
 
There, Carrie learned 18th Century counterpoint, studied opera and chamber music as a Lyric Mezzo-Soprano. She graduated in 1999 and then went on to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, receiving her Bachelor Degree in Music in 2003. She continued to live in Philadelphia, working as a background vocalist. Carrie began writing songs purely for therapeutic release, and convinced a suburban studio to allow her to record her work tapes. This first batch of songs planted the seeds for her journey to Tennessee.

In 2013, DigitalJournal.com selected Woman On a Mission as one of the Top 10 Best Female Country Albums. She was also selected by the Country Music Association as one of the Artists to Watch in 2013, which described her as rising into the Country Music sky bright, fast, and impossible to ignore.”
 
 
In 2015, Carrie began work on her latest studio effort, Hearts Beat. Once again, she teamed up with producer Kent Wells, and laid bare some of her most honest, and free- form music to date. Hearts Beat began as a writing exercise, absent of big commercial aspirations and a cookie-cutter approach. Upon discovering she was pregnant with her first child, Carrie began to simply create, without trying to fit into any specific genre or musical feel. What emerged is something more honest, vocally and lyrically. This fresh take on the themes of love, redemption and unapologetic authenticity shine brightly in a sea of sameness.

Carrie Zaruba