Carolyn Wonderland

Carolyn Wonderland (photo by Todd_V_Wolfson)

Carolyn’s vocal proficiency was well-established in the singer's midteens when she began performing in her native Houston as the lead singer of Imperial Monkeys. The band was invited to the Guadalupe Street “Antone's” in Austin, and there she felt so comfortable that when the band called it quits a few years later, she set her sights on the capital city at the start of the millennium.

Living in Austin renewed Carolyn's focus on her multiple talents, underlining luxurious vocals with fine guitar work, trumpet, and piano, as well as her remarkable ability to whistle on key.

She began co-writing with locals Sarah Brown, Ruthie Foster, Cindy Cashdollar, and Guy Forsyth; sat in with Los Lobos, Robert Earl Keen, and Ray Wylie Hubbard; recorded with Jerry Lightfoot; and toured with Buddy Guy and Johnny Winter. She’s released 3 CD’s including, “Alcohol & Salvation”, “Bloodless Revolution”, and most recently, “Miss Understood,” produced by Ray Benson. In June 2008, she taped a segment for Austin City Limits, which was broadcast on PBS on November 8, 2008. That very gig sums up her love and affection for the capital city.

"Here, it's like total camaraderie: A musician might be in a punk band Friday and blues band Saturday and picking during the week. Music doesn't sound like this anywhere else in the world."