Bill Carroll (musician)

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Bill Carroll in concert, 2005

Bill Carroll (born December 29, 1966 in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, bassist and guitarist. He has been a professional musician since the mid-1980s, and has been a member of the groups No Such Thing, Doubting Thomas, and The Real Underground. As solo artist, he scored a Rate-A-Record appearance on Dick Clark's American Bandstand program on April 2, 1998, shortly after being signed to Hollywood-based Aardvark Records.^[1]

Carroll's musical styles have ranged from serious orchestral arrangements (Dune I from 1994's Kohoutek) to sitcom themes (The Mecklenburgers) to what he is best-known for: rock and roll power pop. He is heavily influenced by The Beatles, The Who, The Jam, R.E.M., Jellyfish, and less mainstream artists such as Bruce Foxton, Kevin Gilbert and John Wetton.

Carroll joined Doubting Thomas as vocalist/bassist in 1997, contributing songs to the band’s last two albums, "Who Died and Made You King" (1998) and their eponymous "Live" recording (1999). He remained with the group until it disbanded in 2001.

In 2004, Carroll composed and performed the theme for the PBS program The Mecklenburgers. He was nominated for a regional Emmy Award for the song in late 2005. ^[2]

A second solo album, Old-School Battle-Ax, is set for release in 2007, on Starry December Records.

1 Albums
2 Production credits
3 Trivia
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Albums

Summer of Light/Get Away, 1986, Alpha Records
When We're Apart/So Lonely, 1987, Aardvark Records
Lonely Stories From The One-Horse Town, (with No Such Thing) 1991, Aardvark Records
Kohoutek, 1994
Cut It Out (with Doubting Thomas), 1998, Oh Very Records
Who Died and Made You King? (with Doubting Thomas), 1998, Oh Very Records
Live (with Doubting Thomas), 1999, Indievision Records
City of Peace Soundtrack (with Gina Stewart and Brenda Gambill), 2001
The Mecklenburgers Soundtrack, 2005

[edit] Production credits

Lonely Stories From The One-Horse Town (with No Such Thing and Kevin H. Short), 1991
Kohoutek, 1994
Concrete Mary, (Concrete Mary, w/ Joe Dorn and Rick Dior) 1999
Right In The Nuts: A Tribute to Aerosmith (with Gideon Smith & The Dixie Damned), 2000, Small Stone Records
Sad Stories, (T&A), 2000
The Mecklenburgers Soundtrack, 2005
Old-School Battle-Ax, (Bill Carroll) November 2006, Starry December Records

[edit] Trivia

Carroll served as an exchange teacher at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu, The People's Republic of China.
Carroll was classmates with Benicio Del Toro, Sean Kanan, and Michael Davies at Mercersburg Academy, where he played in a band with Bon Jovi producer Luke Ebbin; his bass guitar "roadie" was Tool's producer, Vince DeFranco. He attended grade school with film producer Chris Moore.
Carroll's song "Axe to Grind" (Lonely Stories From The One-Horse Town) was featured with a story about the Los Angeles riots of 1992 on the Voice of America Radio Network.
Carroll was once in the contestant pool for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
His reflections on R.E.M.'s first record, Murmur (which Carroll has claimed as a great influence) appeared in a November 1992 issue of Rolling Stone magazine.