“I had been writing for a few years—since What It Is came out in 2019, I’ve just been working on songs,” Hayes Carll began. “I didn’t really have a purpose, I didn’t sit down and say ‘I’m going to ...

Today (October 4), Hayes & The Heathens—the musical marriage of Hayes Carll and the Band of Heathens—released their self-titled debut album. The eight-track collection features seven songs written by ...

Singer-songwriter Hayes Carll’s witty and moving songs have evoked comparisons to John Prine, Townes Van Zandt and other giants of the genre. Credit: Shutterstock / Sterling Munksgard When it comes to ...

Hayes Carll is ready for you to hear his new record. Opening up about it, however, is another matter. “Talking about it and discussing it has always been problematic for me. I’ve always approached it ...

In September 2021, Mountain Stage host Kathy Mattea welcomed Hayes Carll back for his sixth appearance on the program. The Texas singer-songwriter has been on the Americana scene since the early 2000s ...

Hayes Carll’s new album You Get It All is his most country-leaning project since 2008’s Trouble in Mind. There are country flavors, of course, in everything released by this Houston singer, who now ...

Hayes Carll went into the pandemic with a fairly new album in “What It Is.” Or at least it was new enough that Carll was in Seattle for a show promoting it when the rest of the tour was canceled. So ...

Hayes Carll is in Galveston, Texas, watching the shrimp boats return from the Gulf of Mexico to empty their nets. Later that night, the singer-songwriter will play the first of two shows at the Old ...

Tucked down a street off Pittsburgh’s South Side, a little piece of Texas found its way into the lives of this melancholy Mideast town. To the ears of a hundred or so people sitting around under the ...

Hayes Carll brings his Grateful For Christmas show to the Heights Theater on Thursday, December 4 and Friday, December 5. Credit: Joshua Black Wilkins No matter where his career takes him, Hayes Carll ...

“I knew the night we met that you get it all,” Hayes Carll sings in his new song, a simple declaration of love and all the good and bad that comes with it. “All my lows and all my highs/all my truth, ...