McHone skivdebuterade 2015 med plattan "Goodluck Man", som fick ett strålande mottagande lokalt, vilket ledde till turnéer utanför Texas och spelningar med artister som Shakey Graves, Gary Clark, Jr. och Joe Pug. Hon mötte en ny publik och utvecklades ytterligare som artist.
"There was a time when I wanted to champion traditional country", berättar McHone, "mostly because I wasn't hearing it in what was being called 'country'. I think a lot of roots influenced artists feel the need to defend tradition in this way. Today though, I want to do more with the form, push myself past where I understand it to be".
Nya "Carousel" speglar den utvecklingen och McHone har vuxit som låtskrivare på ett alldeles remarkabelt sätt. En viktig roll i den processen har Nashville-baserade producenten Mike McCarthy spelat. McCarthy har tidigare jobbat med Spoon, Patty Griffin och Heartless Bastards och han blev det perfekta bollplanket för Carson McHone.
Carson McHone is a songwriter from Austin, Texas, now residing in Southern Ontario. McHone’s 2018 internationally released Carousel (LOOSE MUSIC/NINE MILE RECORDS), produced by Mike McCarthy (Spoon, Patty Griffin), was a reimagining of songs from her formative years coming of age playing in dive bars in and around her hometown. It established her as a shrewd artist who raises unconventional questions with language equally at home in a poem or a short story.
In 2019, during a hectic tour schedule, the songs of Still Life were written, and the following year McHone teamed up with Canadian musician and producer, Daniel Romano, to record the album while sequestered at a home studio in the fall of 2020. Still Life was released on MERGE RECORDS/LOOSE MUSIC in February 2022 with McHone touring the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK in support of the album, as well as joining, and performing with, Daniel Romano’s Outfit.
In September 2022 McHone released Camera Varda Variations (MERGE RECORDS/LOOSE MUSIC), a digital EP featuring two songs from Still Life re-recorded at the Outfit’s new studio, Camera Varda, with the group as her band, akin to the collaboration/live show of the two acts on tour. McHone has recorded and toured three albums as a member of Daniel Romano’s Outfit: Cobra Poems (2022), La Luna (2023), and Too Hot To Sleep (2024), all released on YOU’VE CHANGED RECORDS. McHone’s 2024 EP, ODES, is a collection of carefully curated covers recorded at Camera Varda with her bandmates from the Outfit, released July 19th via MERGE RECORDS. McHone’s next full length record has a tentative release for fall 2025.