The Devil decided to go to Georgia instead of Texas, because he knew Carrie Rodriguez was in Austin and he’d be giving up that golden fiddle because he wouldn’t have had a chance. And while the song came out a scant few years after she was born, the Austin songstress was absolutely dazzling at the Geomatic Attic, Aug. 16 where she and her band played to a close to sold out crowd of approximately 60.
Dressed in a simple blue dress and high heeled sandals, she grinned a mouthful of gorgeous white teeth, framed by brown ringlets of hair as hypnotically swayed from side to side as she made her fiddle sing, cry, moan, hiss and squeal while stomping out additional rhythm. And she was holding back. But when she cut loose, it was awe inspiring, playing a jaw dropping solo which dropped about three octaves in a bar in one song. She ended her first set with a medley of fiddle tunes called “Fiddle Magic.”
She started her second set by dedicating a nice duet with guitarist Luke Jacobs of John Prine’s “Unwed Fathers” to Geomatic Attic owner Mike Spencer.