⬇️ CAROLYN WONDERLAND ⬇️
(Carolyn Bradford)
DISCOGRAPHY 1995-2025 (14CD/DVD)
BIOGRAPHY
Carolyn Wonderland was born Carolyn Bradford in 1972 in Houston, Texas, United States. Wonderland dropped out of Houston's Langham Creek High School to pursue her music ambitions.
In 1999, Wonderland moved to Austin, Texas; in 2001, she lost her apartment lease after her landlord became ill, and decided to live out of her van since she was spending more than 300 days a year on the road performing.
Wonderland's instrumental abilities include guitar, slide guitar,
mandolin, trumpet, and piano. Although primarily a blues artist,
Wonderland likes to incorporate elements of country, swing, zydeco,
surf, gospel, soul, and cumbia into her musical mix. She usually
performs with Cole El-Saleh on keyboards and Kevin Lance on drums.
In February 2008, Wonderland released the CD "Miss Understood" on the
Bismeaux Productions label, and the title song has been on the Top 50 of
the 'Roots Music Report' chart since the album's release. Fans of
Wonderland's music include Bob Dylan, and Ray Benson, founder of Asleep
At The Wheel. Benson produced Miss Understood, and has been one of her
songwriting collaborators.
Wonderland credits several blues and Texas musicians as influences on
her music. One notable influence is Austin singer/songwriter Terri
Hendrix, as Wonderland covered two Hendrix songs, ("I Found the Lions"
and "Throw My Love"), on Miss Understood.
Wonderland has been involved in a number of recordings, including
several that were self-produced on independent labels. She was the lead
singer fronting the band Imperial Monkeys. Wonderland released Bloodless
Revolution in 2008, and is the primary singer on the Jerry Lightfoot's
Band of Wonder Texistentialism CD with Lightfoot and Vince Welnick
(Grateful Dead, Tubes.)
Wonderland was a founding member of the Loose Affiliation of Saints and
Sinners (with Papa Mali, Eldridge Goins, Guy Forsyth, and others), with
several of her songs being featured on their Sessions from the Hotel San
Jose Rm. 50 CD. She was also the lead guitarist in the all-girl,
southern rock band Sis DeVille (other members include Shelley King,
Sarah Brown, Lisa Pankratz, and Floramay Holliday), and a founding
member of the Austin Volunteer Orchestra.
Wonderland appeared on Austin City Limits in 2008, and has had her
music used on NBC's Homicide and Fox's Time of Your Life. She was a
headlining artist at the annual Rochester International Jazz Festival
summer 2009 at the Eastman Theatre and New York. In 2003, Wonderland
opened the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, after performing there for the
previous ten years, singing the National Anthem with 'The Imperial
Monkeys'.
Wonderland also performs with the Imperial Golden Crown Harmonizers,
raising money for local Austin charities, food banks, soup kitchens,
homeless shelters, and on behalf of the legalization of marijuana.
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