bluegrass pride mini-grant recipient
Ya boy is getting some financial help, woohoo! 🙏🏻
2022 is already shaping up to be pretty wild! I’m in the recording studio with queer-owned Crosspick Studio making an EP, I’m booking a DIY tour through Arkansas and Tennessee, I’m working on a music video release… it all adds up. So it’s with great pleasure (and relief) that I announce I’ve been awarded a mini-grant of $500 from Bluegrass Pride!
With a goal to provide $4,500 in direct aid before the end of the calendar year, and programs like Porch Pride to give LGBTQIA+ artists both pay and platform, Bluegrass Pride is truly doing the lord’s work to make the world of bluegrass music accessible to our communities. So so happy to join the ranks of folks they’ve helped out!
a wee write-up with country queer
I’ve admired the folks at Country Queer for a long, sweltering minute, so when I saw myself in a line-up of devastatingly talented Texas queers, I might have cried… Check out the full list of country queers to watch out for in Texas at the link below!
interview with concept animals
“When I listen to Creekbed Carter, he reclaims the language of holiness and purity in a way that feels like these qualities are absolutely possible for queer folks like me.”
When my lovely friend Ginny Barns reached out to me to interview me for Concept Animals, an artist-run and Austin-based Arts and Theory publication, I knew we’d have a rad time - but Ginny’s thoughtfulness and insight made this one of my favorite conversations I’ve had about GOOD ST RIDDANCE yet.
They write, “When I listen to Creekbed Carter, he reclaims the language of holiness and purity in a way that feels like these qualities are absolutely possible for queer folks like me.” And that’s just the introduction! :Makes a crying sound:
Read the rest at the link below!
american pancake shows me some love
“…from start to finish an experience that makes you feel like a better human being for having listened to it”
Robb Donker Curtius has some lovely things to say about Good St Riddance on American Pancake today! In a write-up lovingly titled “Creekbed Carter Hogan and the ‘Miracle’ of the rootsy Queergrass concept album ‘Good St Riddance,’” Curtius cites my “pretty, tender vocal aesthetic and self harmonies” as contributing to an “atmosphere of past stories that envelope you.” The album “hearken[s] forward to 70s folk tempers with Brewer’s beautiful lilt and melodies turning classically folk with toes dipped in garden rock pools.” He also compares me to some ABSOLUTE favorites - Gillian Welch, Led Zeppelin, Thom Yorke, and Joni Mitchell all come up here - and shows some love for my arthritic hands squeaking up and down my guitar neck in “nimble graceful emotional picking.”
“Creekbed Carter Hogan’s spirited, shape shifting album ‘Good St Riddance’ is from start to finish an experience that makes you feel like a better human being for having listened to it” - a final line that made me feel both humbled and absolutely seen. Thank you so much for the generous review, Robb! Read the rest at the link below!
#deskoftheday on npr music
My Tiny Desk Contest submission got featured on NPR!
I had so many plans for my Tiny Desk Contest submission this year… but they didn’t just fall through, they collapsed in on themselves like dying stars. So me and my ragtag group of troublemaking friends quickly put together a Plan B: set a desk on fire in a parking lot at midnight, film myself singing in front of it, and then go get Taco Bell. Looks like our plan worked, because NPR Music’s Instagram featured my video as the #DeskOfTheDay today! Check out our shared glee on my Instagram page at the link below!
shout-out in the austin chronicle
“Fingerpicked introspection and bittersweet confessionals”
Good St Riddance got a shout-out in the Austin Chronicle recently as part of an article on “New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week!” Gregg Stitt calls it an album of “fingerpicked introspection and bittersweet confessionals,” and you can read the rest at the link below! Thanks, AC, love y’all!