Author turned songwriter, Zoe FitzGerald Carter’s latest album, Before the Machine, showcases the artist’s vivid, literary sense of language and unique blend of Americana, rock, blues and jazz. Inspired by memories of a pre-smart phone world, the title track — Before the Machine — explores how technology has altered our experience of time. The song won first place in the Corpus Christi Songwriters Contest. Another song from the album, Let’s Just Stay Friends, just scooped up second place from the International Acoustic Music Awards.
“Zoe FitzGerald Carter is an artist who taps into the great American tradition of the troubadour singer-songwriter,” writes Tom Hilton of Aldora Britain Records.”With a fresh and invigorating approach, this Berkeley, California-based tunesmith crafts lyrically drive, compositions that delve into themes of change, longing, exploitation, nostalgia and many more. Before the Machine is a gem of an album from top to bottom.”
Zoe grew up in Washington D.C. where she began playing guitar and singing as a teenager. She’s played with numerous Bay Area bands – Do Wrong Right, The Deadliners, Rolling Thunder, and co-founded the Americana string band Sugartown. She’s performed in clubs from the fabled Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, to the Lost Church and Hotel Utah in San Francisco, to Sweetwater Music Hall in Marin County. She toured the East Coast as a solo act last fall and has played on the central coast and in Southern California.
Music was Zoe’s first love, but writing was her first career. A graduate of Columbia Journalism School, she has written for numerous national publications including The New York Times, Newsweek, Vogue. In 2010, Simon & Schuster published her award winning memoir, Imperfect Endings. She has also taught memoir and songwriting in writing retreats and conferences from Vermont to California to Hawaii.
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