CREEKBED CARTER

https://www.creekbedcarter.com/

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For trans folksinger Creekbed Carter Hogan, everything good is made from the rotten stump of something else. It’s a theme they’ve become familiar with as they’ve made a life weaving stories of growing up religious around songs that pierce the soul, tickle the funny bone, and showcase a unique blend of self-taught folk picking and queer mayhem. 

Creekbed Carter, out with Gar Hole Records on March 22 2024, is Hogan at their most confident. Deftly crafted with folk sensibilities, country swagger, and a power emanating from the force of their own desires, their new self-titled album is both creed and archive: a defiant declaration of survival and solidarity in an otherwise limited world.

Rooted in the eccentric preoccupations of a messy Catholic childhood that have been transformed into a dazzling, troubling, and ultimately wondrous collection of songwriting, this 10-track record represents a departure from the quiet revelations of Good St Riddance. Listeners accompany Hogan as they look clear-eyed at the world around them and draw power from the act of naming with language so precise, it comes as no surprise to learn that Hogan, in addition to being a musician, is also a fiction writer and educator.