Biography

Contact:
Carrie Cunningham
soundbarnpublishing@gmail.com
509-230-5473

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Quotes:
"Every Song has the touch and sound of real country. She's the real deal" ~ Rolfe Farms

"Carrie has the amazing voice everyone around town knows, and is a true country pro" ~ Michelle/KUPL Portland

CARRIE CUNNINGHAM -THE WAY YOU LOOK AT ME EP

What To Expect from THE WAY YOU LOOK AT ME

Everything about this EP, just makes me feel good. This EP is about love. Love for yourself, family, the holy spirit. The one song I am the most proud of, has touched more lives than I probably realize, or have been told, is "Tears In The Rain". May my husband's mother and every other lost love, forever be with us.

Production
Recorded at The Parlor, Nashville, TN
Engineer: Matt Legge
Asst Engineer: Mica Tanner
Producer: Carrie Cunningham/Tim Buppert

Mastered at Tone Proper Studios, Portland, OR
Master Engineer: Nick Moon

Vocals: Carrie Cunningham
Backing vocals: Tim Buppert, Karen Parent
Drums/Percussion: Tim Buppert
Bass:Alison Prestwood
Pedal Steel/Dobro: Robin Ruddy
Electric Guitar: Kerry Marx
Rhythm Guitar: Kim Kimball

1. The Way you look at me (3:33) (Featured Track)

Writers: Carrie Cunningham
Publishing & PRO: Sound Barn Publishing / ASCAP

This is a mid tempo love song, which is also the title track off my EP. I think this song encompasses parts of me I never think about until I wrote this. The rain and sun is my childhood in the midwest, the ocean is what I love, and just having someone look at you with adoration, is more than enough.

2. The Country Side of me (2:57)

Writers: Carrie Cunningham, Charlie Craig
Publishing & PRO: Sound Barn Publishing / ASCAP,
Powerplay Music / BMI

This song has a traditional country feel, and it is about how someone can make you feel at peace and happy driving down dirt roads. Good country living. When I listen to Don Williams, I get that feel good feeling, so he was an inspiration for this song.

3. Arms of Something Wild (3:51)

Writers: Carrie Cunningham, Tim Buppert
Publishing & PRO: Sound Barn Publishing / ASCAP,
Tiny buckets O’ Music / ASCAP

During the time I was writing this song, I was really into songwriter Gretchen Peters (Independence Day, Bus to St Cloud etc). I loved the way she could write a song and leave people deciphering for themselves the meaning behind it. So I took a stab at writing that way. Some people think it's a love song, others think it's about God. The answer is yes.

4. Huntin' Season (2:37)

Writers: Carrie Cunningham, Richard Parkinson, Michael Taylor
Publishing & PRO: Sound Barn Publishing / ASCAP, One Rich Song publishing / BMI, Empty Mind Music / BMI

Huntin' Season is a fun western swing song, I had a blast writing. My co-writers and I decided to write a song comparing a woman going out, to a man getting ready to go hunting. I think we spent more time laughing than anything.

5. Tears in the Rain (4:49)

Writers: Carrie Cunningham, Tim Bishop
Publishing & PRO: Sound Barn Publishing / ASCAP

This song is personal to anyone who has lost someone to cancer or an illness. My husband lost his mother to Breast cancer and I went off stories he would tell me while she was in the hospital on the last stages of her life.

6. What We Do For Love (3:44)

Writers: Carrie Cunningham, Joseph J Hrasna III
Publishing & PRO: Sound Barn Publishing / ASCAP,
Joe Hrasna / BMI

This song is a classic case of wanting to write one thing and end up writing something completely different. What We Do For Love is a tempo song about teen pregnancy with a positive spin about life. Hope and love lives where you least expect it.

CARRIE CUNNINGHAM BIOGRAPHY

Carrie Cunningham is an International Chart topping Performing Songwriter who loves to entertain! The music industry is calling her an authentic, sultry, slightly twisted and totally believable voice on the New Country/Americana scene. Carrie has the sass of Miranda Lambert and a powerhouse voice like Martina McBride; all the while, the sweetness that seethes from the rich tones of Pam Tillis; which engages and captivated the audience within minutes.  

Carrie started in music like many aspiring artists, by singing in a local band, but all the while she was attending school studying voice and composition, and singing with the Spokane Symphony Chorale.  During the Garth and Shania era, is when she started dabbing in songwriting.  In 2000, she had an acoustic duo, Mirror Image and recorded their first EP in 2001.  In 2003, Carrie went back to school for audio production.  After graduating she focused on live sound and was a live sound engineer along side fronting cover bands and eventually her own.  

In 2005, she signed on with an Independent label, Divulge Records, where she released her Honeysweet album, along with releasing a video to her song "Smile Again" in conjunction with the Vanished Children's Alliance.   She was with Divulge until 2011.

Since then, Carrie has released 3 other EP's through her own record label, Sound Barn Records and also started her own Publishing Company, Sound Barn Publishing. The three EP's under Sound Barn Records are  "The Way You Look at Me", "Secrets", and "Let's Dance".  Other Independent artists have cut songs written by Carrie and she has also had movie placements.

Carrie Is currently passionate about spreading the awareness of Domestic Violence and any form of child endangerment.  Carrie has been a volunteer with The Big Brother's, Big Sisters organization, the Lunch Buddy program, and also CASA- Court Appointed Child Advocate

She has opened up for acts like Kacey Musgraves, James Otto, Jake Owen, Crystal Gayle, Brian White, Collective Soul, Diamond Rio, Restlesss Heart, Love and Theft, and many, many others.    

From her acoustic to full band performance one thing is guaranteed; the audiences will witness her dedication and enjoyment to the craft of singing and performing.    


 Some Notable Highlights include:

~ The EP "Secrets was #1 for the top 50 APD Country/Alt Albums for the month of March 2017

~Her Single "Happily" made the top 30 songs for the 2017 Nashville Film festival

~Her Single "Secrets" was in the Semi Finals for the 2017  International Songwriters Competition

~National Anthem for Professional Sporting events such as Showtime Boxing, ESPN2, Portland Timbers, PRCA

~Performed with Spokane Symphony from 1998-2003
 
~Various Indie artists have recorded her songs

~ONLY UNSIGNED ARTIST to play back to back performances at the Largest NW Country Music Festival, Watershed 2014-2015

~Winner or the FOE Eagle's 100th Year National talent competition

~Signed to Independent Label “Divulge Records”, from 2006-2011
~Collaborated with The Vanished Children's Alliance for the making of the video “Smile Again”

~WINNER of the 7th Annual NW Battle of the Bands 2013

~Appearances onGood Morning Northwest KXLY

~Portland Chapter President Nashville Songwriters Association International 2008-2017

~Featured in Northwest Women's Magazine

~Nashville Flood Benefit Concert Producer for Portland Oregon

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