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Hayes is throwing a NYE party with two of his favorite bands.

Shovels and Rope from Charleston, South Carolina and The Sideshow Tramps from Houston, TX.

Get in the spirit by dressing up and throwing down on what will be an unforgettable evening. Prizes will be awarded for the freakiest, sexiest or classiest look.

So throw on your feathers and fedora's, your top hats and high heels and come be part of a very special Austintacious NYE

Shovels and Rope

Saturday December 31st

La Zona Rosa

Austin TX

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Here’s the complete list:

1. Wilco – The Whole Love

2. Gillian Welch – The Harrow and the Harvest

3. Adele – 21

4. Drive-By Truckers- Go-Go Boots

5. Dawes – Nothing Is Wrong

6. Hayes Carll – KMAG YOYO

7. Paul Simon – So Beautiful Or So What

8. Pistol Annies – Hell on Heels

9. The Black Keys- El Camino

10. Feist – Metals

11. Tom Waits – Bad As Me

12. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – Here We Rest

13. Lucinda Williams – Blessed

14. My Morning Jacket – Circuital

15. Bon Iver – Bon Iver

16. Miranda Lambert – Four The Record

17. Jessica Lea Mayfield – Tell Me

18. Ryan Adams – Ashes and Fire

19. Radiohead – The King Of Limbs

20. Laura Marling – A Creature I Don’t Know

21. Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues

22. Bright Eyes – The People’s Key

23. The Civil Wars – Barton Hollow

24. The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient

25. Sarah Jarosz – Follow Me Down

26. Pieta Brown – Mercury

27. Deer Tick – Divine Providence

28. St. Vincent – Strange Mercy

29. AA Bondy – Believers

30. Felice Brothers – Celebration, Florida

31. Robert Ellis – Photographs

32. Decemberists - The King Is Dead

33. Honeyhoney – Billy Jack

34. Joe Henry – Reverie

35. KORT -Invariable Heartache

36. Old 97′s – The Grand Theatre, Vol. 2

37. Steve Earle – I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive

38. Real Estate – Days

39. Those Darlins – Screws Get Loose

40. The Middle East – I Want That You Are Always Happy

41. Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring For My Halo

42. Noel Gallagher – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds

43. Jonny Corndawg – Down On The Bikini Line

44. Tristen – Charlatans At The Garden Gate

45. JEFF The Brotherhood – We Are The Champions

46. Loney Dear – Hall Music

47. Caitlin Rose – Own Side Now

48. Abigail Washburn – City of Refuge

49. Beirut – The Rip Tide

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KMAG YOYO, Hayes Carll

Clockwork Orange-like talking blues about a smack-dealing soldier who gets pumped with psychotropics by the government.

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Bonnaroo turns 10 this year, and to celebrate the June 9-12 festival in Machester, TN, SPIN has put together a free 20-song mixtape featuring My Morning Jacket, Florence + the Machine, the Walkmen, Explosions in the Sky, and Robert Plant — along with hotly-tipped newcomers Twin Shadow, Hayes Carll, Sharon Van Etten, and others.

You can grab the mixtape at our Facebook page.

To stay on top of everything Bonnaroo-related, and for festivals throughout the year, be sure to follow @SPINfestivals on Twitter, as well as our mothership Twitter, @SPINMagazine.

MUSIC REVIEW
A double dose of tough and tender country-folk
April 26, 2011
By Stuart Munro

JASON ISBELL and HAYES CARLL
At: Brighton Music Hall, Saturday

Hayes Carll has walked a long road on path to success
April 12, 2011
By Jeff Hahne

Hayes Carll
With Shovels and Rope. $13. April 17. 7 p.m. Stage Door Theater. www.blumenthalarts.org
Though people are still slowly learning the name Hayes Carll, the singer-songwriter isn't new to the music business. He's been performing for the last 12 years or so and recording albums for the last 10. They say that slow and steady wins the race, so Carll must be on the right path. His fourth album, 2011's KMAG YOYO, is the first of his to register on the country charts — at No.12. His fan base is consistently growing and there's nothing else he'd rather do.
"It's always felt like it's been going at the right pace for me," Carll says by phone while on the
road traveling between Iowa and Minnesota recently. "There's times where I wish I wasn't as
broke and had more people coming out to shows, but with every record, it's been a good
progression. I probably wasn't ready for success early in my career and now it makes everything feel earned."
Before music, Carll had a string of odd jobs, from the typical waiter and bartending positions to census taker, vacuum cleaner salesman and medical test patient, acting out various diseases to help medical students learn better bedside manners.
"More than anything, they were character builders," Carll says. "They were good for stories —
like most good stories, they weren't a lot of fun when they were happening, but down the road
you look back and laugh about the times you had. It makes me appreciate more that I'm able to do this full time."
Carll's music finds itself in an Americana category that infuses a little of everything — rock,
rockabilly, folk and country. His newest album is the first he recorded with his band, enabling
him to write more with the music than to try and find music to fit his words.
He's found heavy influence from Dylan and sees himself more as a writer than a musician. His latest album mixes the personal style of writing that he's become known for with smatterings of current events.
"Most of my stuff in the past has been pretty directly tied up in my own issues, hang-ups and
quirks," Carll says. "On this one, I got out of the box a little bit more and wrote more about what
I've been seeing traveling around the last few years. It was kind of hard to avoid the state of the
economy or the wars or political discourse. I tried not to be too heavy-handed about it, but I felt
like I was drawn to writing about that more on this record."
Carll says he didn't have hesitations about getting political on the album, but didn't want to
"berate anybody or force them to think anything." He says his views are constantly changing, so he pays attention to his lyrics in that he doesn't want to write something he might not himself agree with in two years. Instead, he focused on basic underlying ideas that he's comfortable sharing, knowing he'll probably believe them for the rest of his life.
"There's a great quote that says, 'I'm not out here trying to change anybody's mind, I'm out here
to ease my own,'" Carll says. "I'm not writing this to make anybody vote differently, and I'm not
sure anything I write would have that effect, regardless, but it's just writing about what I see
more than anything."
There's a lot of Dylan influence on the new album, and the title track — military slang for "Kiss
My Ass Guys, You're On Your Own" — is often compared to "Subterranean Homesick Blues,"
though that's not what Carll was aiming for.
"On Stomp and Holler, I was chasing a Dylan thing," he says. "On the last record, I wrote an
outright plagiarism of him in general on 'A Lover Like You.' I readily admit that I'm influenced
by and occasionally borrow from him. On that track though, I was thinking more about Chuck
Berry than Bob Dylan."
For his next album, Carll isn't sure if he'll stick with the band or strip things down to the way it
used to be.
"That's one of the ideas that I'm thinking about is a stripped-down, more mellow singersongwriter album," he says. "That's what I did for a long time live and what I still do a lot. It was the first thing that I thought that I was good at. I enjoy and love what we're doing right now, but there's a part of me that wants to get back to just me and a guitar. I think that record's somewhere down the line, I just don't know if it's the next one or further off."

You can’t listen to this freewheeling Texas singer and songwriter long without becoming thoroughly convinced that he’s a full-blooded relative of Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb and Merle Haggard. Waylon Jennings’ famous observation about Grand Ole Opry standard-bearer Porter Wagoner -- “he couldn’t go pop with a mouthful of firecrackers" -- is equally true of Hayes Carll. There’s an unself-conscious commitment to his rural Southern heritage in everything he sings.

He spins a yarn with fresh wit, details a failure with unflinching honesty, and everything in between remains admirably cliché-free.

“Hard Out Here” breathes life into the well-trod genre of life on the road. Carll confesses: “Everybody’s talking 'bout the shape I’m in/They say,  ‘Boy you ain’t a poet, you’re just a drunk with a pen’/It gets hard out here, I know it don’t look it/I used to have heart, but the highway took it.” "Chances Are” is a classic country weeper that exhibits the revealing, economical turn of phrase that writers such as Haggard, Willie Nelson and John Prine have mastered: “Chances are I took the wrong turn every time I had a turn to take/And I guess I broke my own heart every chance I had a heart to break.”

Carll is every bit as expressive a singer as he is a writer, drawling his trenchant observations with deceptive ease. The phrase “the real deal” is bandied about a lot in country music, but in Carll’s case, as Walter Brennan used to say, it’s “no brag, just fact.”

-- Randy Lewis

Hayes Carll
“KMAG YOYO”
Lost Highway
Thee and a half stars (out of four)

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SIRIUS XM Outlaw Country (Sirius 63, XM 12)
Long Tall Texan troubadour Hayes Carll goes head-to-head with the “Loon in the Afternoon” Mojo Nixon for a good natured Outlaw gabfest, and will perform four songs live in-studio from his new Lost Highway album KMAG YOYO (a military acronym for “Kiss My Ass Guys, You’re On Your Own”) with his touring band, the Poor Choices.

Wednesday, February 9 @ 6 pm ET

Rebroadcast: Friday, February 11 @ 7 pm ET

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