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Carbon Leaf, the "Rocky" of Virginia rock bands, plays the University of Washington Wednesday night Date published: 11/23/2006
By MICHAEL ZITZ Nothing's come easily for Carbon Leaf. One might say they've been the "Rocky" of Virginia rock--especially since the song that made the difference for the Richmond band is titled "The Boxer." It's been a long, hard fight for the band that started at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland in 1992 and finally broke through with its sixth album, "Indian Summer," which included the single "Life Less Ordinary," in 2004. The University of Mary Washington will host "An Evening with Carbon Leaf" Wednesday at Dodd Auditorium. The group's big break came when it won an Internet contest involving 1,000 bands in 2002. Carbon Leaf won the American Music Awards Presents the Coca-Cola New Music Award for "The Boxer." The prize: performing the song live on the AMAs before a worldwide audience of 80 million. After that, "The Boxer" entered regular rotation on Washington's DC101 (WWDC) and other radio stations. "Before that, we were kind of spinning our wheels," lead singer Barry Privett told The Free Lance-Star this week. "That boosted our profile a bit." Since then, Carbon Leaf has toured with the Dave Matthews Band, the Counting Crows, John Mayer and others, and has released its seventh album, "Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat." In 2004, Carbon Leaf signed with Vanguard Records, which is part of the Welk Music Group. Others signed with that group include Nickel Creek, Mindy Smith, John Hiatt, Allison Moorer and Sam Bush. Carbon Leaf is highly accessible for a rock act. Privett said the band begins with the question, "What is the emotional resonance of the song? Can people relate to it?" He said Carbon Leaf's fan base "runs the gamut from teenagers to people in their 40s and 50s, and everyone in between. It's a pretty big mix."
Date published: 11/23/2006
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