Ether~Electrified Porch Music (1999) is the first album with Jordan Medas as the bassist and contains “Home”, “American Tale”, and “Blue Ridge Laughing”. The band had sold over 10,000 copies of their first three independent CDs by late 1999, released on their own label, Constant Ivy Music.
Shadows in the Banquet Hall , released in 1997, includes “Flood”, “Wolftrap and Fireflies”, and “Attica’s Flower Box Window”. An award-winning video was made for “Flood”.
Meander , their first album, was released in 1995. The first songs Carbon Leaf wrote, including “One Day” and “Country Monkee”, are on the album.
Carbon Leaf got their start at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia in 1992, practicing in an auditorium on campus. Their next step was playing backyard parties, mixers, fraternity, and sorority parties. Shortly after everyone graduated, they moved to Richmond, Virginia . From Richmond, they played the college circuit in Virginia and…
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