CARL FENDLEY

PLease visit www.carlfendley.com Carl Fendley has developed into an articulate singer songwriter with a fondness for storytelling. He likes to write ballads about love and loss and songs reflective of a drunken celebration using a mixture of music found on the Texas Gulf Coast. His music is similar in style to artist like Jimmy Buffett. It has a hint of that island laid back sound with a dash of Texas Honky Tonk. His sound is clearly unique in its own right. Carl grew up in the small e...

PLease visit www.carlfendley.com Carl Fendley has developed into an articulate singer songwriter with a fondness for storytelling. He likes to write ballads about love and loss and songs reflective of a drunken celebration using a mixture of music found on the Texas Gulf Coast. His music is similar in style to artist like Jimmy Buffett. It has a hint of that island laid back sound with a dash of Texas Honky Tonk. His sound is clearly unique in its own right. Carl grew up in the small east Texas rural town of Cleveland, Texas , where his home was always full of country and bluegrass music. His Grandfather was a fiddle player and tinkered with guitar and banjo. At the Age of 7 Carl taught himself to play the guitar after being exposed to the bluegrass music though the local festivals and the jam session his grandfather would host at their home. In his teen years he played the local club circuit of Houston, TX in a rock band called "The Chantin' Hebrews" made up of friends and family . After High School the band broke up and the members all went their separate ways, Carl went to the local community college for one year then went off to work in the oilfield for a couple of years . He then joined the US. Army for 4 years. While in the military Carl started to write songs again, the urge was coming back to play music again. Returning home after his discharge from the military , he got together with his old Band mates from High School and "Solid Oak" an acoustic Alt. rock band was formed. The band was in demand on the acoustic jams and coffee house club circuit, but life pulled the band members apart due to their prospective families. In 2006 a chance encounter with an ad on a musicians post website, "band looking for rhythm guitarist" Carl jumped at the chance beating out other guitarists for the second guitar spot. The gig was his first professional opportunity which sadly only lasted about four months, but it cemented his love for playing music. Over the course of the next few years he found himself playing sideman in local country groups , feeling that this would never lead to anything worth while. Carl gave up the bands and started writing songs again, the goal was different this time, He would try to become a professional songwriter. There was a certain freedoms as well as limitations to being a solo act, but he liked performing his songs before a live audience . Carl is a member of The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and with the multitude of songs to his credit. His music can currently be heard on serveral internet radio stations as well as purchased at Amazon.com, ITunes, Napster, and eMusic.