Carter Hulsey
Hear it Now
Carter Hulsey and his band are working on a new EP, and they're taking this one old school -- releasing it on vinyl. And some of it will go on
tapes. It's an attempt to combat some of the "have-to-have-it-right-now" factor that comes with being a musician when the internet is around.
Carter explained his position in a phone interview. "It [the internet] makes things less important and it takes out some of the passion. I used to scour through racks of CDs and really enjoyed getting all of the details about it -- who wrote the songs, who produced it."
But don't mistake his meaning -- the web is great because it "provides a tool for anyone to hear anyone's music, and to be updated in a split second." He's just trying to "make it more personal" and have a chance to do some fun "weird things" while he's doing his thing.
And his thing is playing and writing songs. He started playing in bands in the 6th grade after he found a guitar, a 77 Guild, in a closet in his house. "Apparently my mother had given it to my father as a wedding gift," he explained. But his father never played it much, and though his older brother played music for a while, he's the only musician in the family. Those first bands were "your typical middle school punk rock bands," that played Blink 182 and Alkaline Trio covers. Since then, however, his influences have grown -- Iron & Wine, Tom Petty and Willie Nelson are on his list of bands that he would love to play with.
For now, however, he and bandmates Thom Hoglen (Bass), Tof Hoglen (Keyboards) and Isaac Duncan (Guitar & Mandolin) are recording that EP in Springfield, Missouri and thinking up ways to make music they can feel good about.
But don't mistake his meaning -- the web is great because it "provides a tool for anyone to hear anyone's music, and to be updated in a split second." He's just trying to "make it more personal" and have a chance to do some fun "weird things" while he's doing his thing.
And his thing is playing and writing songs. He started playing in bands in the 6th grade after he found a guitar, a 77 Guild, in a closet in his house. "Apparently my mother had given it to my father as a wedding gift," he explained. But his father never played it much, and though his older brother played music for a while, he's the only musician in the family. Those first bands were "your typical middle school punk rock bands," that played Blink 182 and Alkaline Trio covers. Since then, however, his influences have grown -- Iron & Wine, Tom Petty and Willie Nelson are on his list of bands that he would love to play with.
For now, however, he and bandmates Thom Hoglen (Bass), Tof Hoglen (Keyboards) and Isaac Duncan (Guitar & Mandolin) are recording that EP in Springfield, Missouri and thinking up ways to make music they can feel good about.
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