Austin, TX · country · singer-songwriter

Carson McHone

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Austin honky-tonk poetry — classic country bones and a restless heart, songwriting sharp enough to cut through the barroom clatter.

Carson McHone is a songwriter from Austin, Texas, who began playing the city's bars and honky-tonks as a teenager. Her writing sits in the country tradition — plainspoken narrative detail, drinking songs, and portraits of people at loose ends — but she has increasingly pulled it toward rougher, more open-ended arrangements rather than straight Nashville polish. Her recorded work has grown from twang-centred country into something closer to a rock singer-songwriter record, with her voice, direct and slightly weathered, staying the constant.

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