Steve Caraway - Hurricane Season Indienink Music Label Premier Release

Indienink Music Label Premier Release!! Steve Caraway will be the MC on July 4th for the 2008 Charlotte Pop Festival. Steve will also be one of the awesome performers at this great event...Steve and the other artists are giving of their time and talent to go to this benefit festival.
Steve singer songwriter is multi-genre. With this his debut album Caraway only proves the point! … As he delights you with some of the Pop songs like “When I Can Change” and then Caraway’s powerful vocals bring “Evangeline’s” lyrics to life. "Hurricane Season" has been well worth the wait, with catchy hooks and outstanding soulful lyrics. The Songwriting here that is as solid Indie Pop gets and that rocks! Steve offers up Powerpop and moving right into today’s Indie Pop and Modern Rock!!

Folks there is something here for everyone…
Marlene ~ Indienink Music

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Track 3 - "Hurricane Season"






Track 10 - "Sausage Factory"

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Another Reveiw:Caraway has chosen a great title for this album as he manages to unleash a force force gale of tuneful powerpop on this release. It's a good thing, too, as power pop seems to be the bastard stepchild of the music world and anyone releasing a power pop album seemingly has to have an album of quality head and shoulders above anyone else in order to get noticed. You can thank The Beatles for that. As much as musicians (and music fans in general) adore those delightful mop-topped lads, they set the bar so exceedingly high it has been hard for artists and bands who consider themselves like-minded musically to make much of an impact. Bands like Badfinger, The Raspberries, and Big Star (just to name three) were all stellar acts who received comparatively little to no love thanks to their devotion to short songs will brilliantly melodic verses and extremely catchy choruses. Those pesky Beatles had done it already, so there! Not too mention making it look so easy, any really catchy song is dismissed as bubblegum and may be heralded for awhile ("My Sharona" or, more recently, "Stacy's Mom") but then regarded as a mere novelty and only remembered jokingly. Thankfully for those who love their rock and roll with a little bit of energy and melodic bite, Caraway does as good as anyone I've heard at overcoming these inherent hurdles within the genre, though, hell, why don't we just call it "music" and do away with all of the stigma, shall we? With a sharp set of songs and some brilliant vocalizing (and a very good set of backing musicians) Caraway acquits himself very well on this album, his first. It is as a songwriter that Caraway's talent shines brightest, as he manages to put forth both stellar ballads and gritty rockers with a modern sound yet a vintage '70's feel. With pithy, terse statements and a writer's gift for minute detail Caraway manages to be lyrically insightful yet also breezy and fun. Musically, the album straddles the line between rock and lite pop, somewhere between John Mayer with less guitar and more keyboard and the band Maroon 5 with less studio sheen and more bombastic rock and roll spirit.. I like this album and look forward to hearing from work from Caraway. Great songwriters are hard to find. Caraway sounds like he's got the stuff and, after a few more albums, should be making some incendiary music if he keeps it up. Let's hope he does. To make sure he stays with it, it's up to us: buy this album!

Scott Homewood