Carolyn Wonderland

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Carolyn Wonderland is a United States singer, songwriter and musician, hailing from the state of Texas. A native of Houston, she now resides in Austin, Texas. Admirers include Bob Dylan^[1] and Ray Benson, founder of Asleep at the Wheel. Benson produced one of Carolyn's many CDs and has been a songwriting collaborator.

Wonderland credits many other blues and Texas musicians as influential to her music. One notable is Austin singer/songwriter Terri Hendrix. Wonderland covered two Hendrix songs, ('I Found the Lions' and 'Throw My Love'), on her Miss Understood CD.

Wonderland has been doing especially well in the early months of her release of Miss Understood. The song of the same CD title has been ranking in the Top 50 on the Roots Music Report

Carolyn's instrumental abilities include acoustic and electric guitar, electric mandolin, slide guitar, trumpet and piano.

Wonderland has been involved in eight CD recordings, all on independent labels. She began in Houston as the lead singer fronting the band Imperial Monkeys. Releases under the name Carolyn Wonderland and the Imperial Monkeys include "Play with Matches," 1995, on Big-Mo Records; "Blue Lights," 1997, on Justice Records; and "Bursting with Flavor," 1997, on Justice Records.

Wonderland also released "Bloodless Revolution," year of release and label unknown.

She collaborated with other artists in 2001 on two CDs. On the Noah's Sky Music label, she worked on "Texistentialism," with 'Jerry Lightfoot's Band of Wonder, featuring Vince Welnick and Carolyn Wonderland' [1] and also in 2001 came the release of "Drink the Rain," featuring Rebecca Cole with Carolyn Wonderland.

Her next project was with Mix-O-Rama Records on " Alcohol & Salvation," a CD produced by Eldridge Goins. It was released in 2001 and was in its third printing the following year. Other musicians on the Alcohol & Salvation project include Scott Daniels on guitar, vocals and mandolin; Eldridge Goins on drums and guitar; Calvin Hall on bass; Brian Scardino, Steve Mitchell, Zac Colwell and Earl Poole Ball.

In February 2008, she released "Miss Understood" on the Bismeaux Productions label.^[2]