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Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
Biography
A marriage of mutual admiration, Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer quickly gained the respect of the folk music community with Carter's amazing depth of songwriting and Grammer's expert accompaniment on fiddle, guitar, mandolin and violin. Carter, raised in rural areas of Texas and Oklahoma, has not traveled the standard route to a music career. Although having served stints in psychedelic rock bands, as well as being a classical pianist in piano bars, more than anything, Carter has used his experience of studying Transpersonal Psychology -- encompassing dream, shamanic, and meditation studies -- as a unique and strongly original form of surreal rural songwriting. Drawing comparisons to novelist Carlos Castaneda and fellow singer-songwriter Bill Morrisey, Carter is one of the very few songwriters who aren't easily derived from any obvious influence, though he's a noted admirer of Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and W.A. Mozart. Eventually finding his way to Nashville in 1995, Carter took to open mic nights and eventually recorded his debut, Snake Handlin' Man, for Red River Records in 1996.

Tracy Grammer, raised in Southern California in a musical family, met Carter outside one of his performances in Portland, OR in 1996, and the two quickly started working on material for a potential collaboration.
Selected Discography