the dynamic musical team of singer/songwriter and keyboardist Sandy Carroll along with her husband, GRAMMY-winning producer Jim Gaines

Sandy Carroll is a proud product of the nurturing musical melting pot of Memphis, where blues, soul, rock and country genres seep into one another producing fascinating hybrids as compelling as they are unique. She grew up in Stantonville, Tennessee, a little town with only one yellow flashing light, started playing piano at age five, and has been performing professionally since she was 15 years old in a high school rock and roll band. She continued to perform through college and by graduate school, she worked a bar gig before going on the road. By '82-'83 when Carroll moved back to Memphis, Beale Street was just reopening and Lafayette's Corner needed music. She worked there for over a year, playing five and six nights a week, singing and playing the grand piano in the window, which was open to Beale Street with the music amplified into the street. Carroll made a couple of 45s in 1984 with the Memphis Horns backing. 'If You Got It' (backed with a funky 'Street People') and 'Memphis In May' were produced at Ardent Studios by local icon Jim Dickinson. A co-write with Dickinson and Bobby Keel, the great Albert King included 'If You Got It' on his 1991 album Red House.

Although relocating to San Francisco, Memphis kept calling her home. She began working with legendary producer Willie Mitchell, and would fly back to work with him at Royal Studios. Regrettably, nothing was released from those sessions. By 1992, Carroll was back in Memphis full-time and cut her first full-length album, Southern Woman. Her 1997 album, Memphis Rain, was produced by Jim Solberg. Solberg, blues legend Luther Allison's longtime rhythm guitarist, did some writing with Carroll and took the songs to Allison, who loved 'Just As I Am.' He rewrote the bridge and included their collaboration on his Grammy-nominated 1997 CD, Reckless, produced by Gaines. Sandy's 'Forecast Blues' was included on the 2002 Inside Sounds anthology, The Memphis Belles: Past, Present & Future, sharing groove space with Ann Peebles, Carla Thomas, and Jessie Mae Hemphill.

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Label: Blue Heart Records

Genre: Blues

Run Time: 1 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 08/25/23

UPC: 727295152091