Drew Carman is a roots musician based in Austin Texas.

Cutting his teeth from 2008 - 2013 touring up to 150+ days a year with Athens, GA based old-time Americana band The Corduroy Road, Drew shared shows and tours with bands such as The Avett Brothers, Futurebirds, Trampled by Turtles, Caleb Caudle, and Greensky Bluegrass, just to name a few. In 2013, he stepped away from music to focus on his other career as a designer and moved to Austin, Texas. He may have been the first musician in the history of music to move to Austin to actually stop playing music…

Upon arriving in Texas though, he surrounded himself with local musicians and continued dipping in shows and playing around town while working & starting a family. No one can just stop playing music.

One month before COVID hit in 2020, Carman released his first solo EP, Wilderness, under the moniker Carman A.D.

The 6-song EP, produced by John Calvin Abney (John Moreland, Poolboy) and Drew Carman, released January 2020, features a lineup of some of Austins’ most talented and ever hard-grinding musicians including Adam Nurre (Jeremy Pinnell, David Ramirez), Bonnie Whitmore, Carson McHone, Bryan McGrath (Aaron McDonnell & The Neon Eagles, Shane Smith & the Saints), Calloway Ritch (Grace Pettis), Sam Kossler (Pat Green) and John Calvin Abney.

Although the pandemic shelved his touring again, he continued to write and incorporate creative ideas from his oil painting into songs. The result is an 8 song LP and accompanying paintings called How to Build a Home, slated for release in late 2026 and features John Calvin Abney, Adam Nurre and Lydia Loveless.

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