New Solo Album and three more Olson-produced albums on their way!

Producer/guitarist/singer/songwriter CARLA OLSON will kick-start the release of her new album THE RING OF TRUTH with a special album release party on Wednesday, August 28 at The Derby in Los Angeles. The Austin, Texas native is also currently producing three albums: Hey Bo Diddley!-A Tribute (out July 30), Stoned Again by Barry Goldberg (bluesy interpretations of Rolling Stones' songs due Septeptember 17) and Pasa Tiempo by Joe Louis Walker will also be out this autumn.

Carla's new album "The Ring Of Truth" will see its U.S. release August 27, 2002 on Smile Records and is distributed by Image Entertainment. The U.K. release is on Evangeline Recorded Works, in England.

THE RING OF TRUTH (Smile/Image Entertainment) showcases CARLA's talent as a producer, singer, songwriter and guitarist. The album explodes with energy bottled up since her previous release, Reap the Whirlwind, in 1994. Her ascendance as a producer has only intensified her connection to performance. Her singing is passionate and urgent, her slashing guitar pushes the rhythm section into overdrive, and her writing is sharper and more incisive than ever.

She's joined on nine of the album's 12 tracks by former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor and organist Barry Goldberg (Al Kooper, Charlie Musslewhite) is featured on eight of the songs. Taylor's presence also affected Carla's approach to writing for The Ring of Truth. "He has such a great melodic and modal sense," she says. "His solos just float, like on the Stones' 'Time Waits for No One.' When I knew Mick was going to perform with us, I tried to write songs that, like Mick says, 'don't disturb the groove.' You set it up so that you can feel the groove, rather than continually disrupt it with too many chord changes, and he was able to soar over the top of it."

CARLA's Stones and Dylan roots are acknowledged by the album's two covers. "Winter" is taken from Goats Head Soup, recorded during Taylor's tenure with the Stones. And "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?", which also features Lovin' Spoonful alumnus John Sebastian on harmonica, was actually offered to CARLA by Dylan's publisher in the mid Eighties. "He sent me a version of the song that Jimi Hendrix did," she remembers, "but I just never felt like I had the right band to record it--until now. Mick actually remembers working on it with Dylan at one point, although they never played it together live."

Biographical background:

CARLA co-founded the critically acclaimed group The Textones (with future Go Go Kathy Valentine), of which Mikal Gilmore said, "Carla Olson (who, wouldn't ya know, comes from Texas, where many wonderful things come from) combines John Fogerty-style, working-man populist politics with a grand, Rolling Stones-inflected bent for hellfire rock 'n roll, then manages to make both influences seem secondary, with a raw, growling irruptive vocal style that owes acknowledgement to no influence other than its own zeal and compassion." The Textones' 1985 major-label debut included Don Henley, Ry Cooder, Gene Clark, and Barry Goldberg, and was followed by 1987's Cedar Creek. She then worked on albums with Henley, John Fogerty, Eric Johnson, and Sky Saxon(!) and released her solo debut in 1988.
She has also released a live album as well as several other solo albums and three other Olson-produced albums are on their way!

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