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SUMMARY:Carbon Leaf at Higher Ground
DESCRIPTION:All Ages\\n—\\nCarbon Leaf’s fifteenth studio album\\, Ti
 me is the Playground is both a call to action and an embrace of the momen
 t. Marrying nostalgic storytelling to nuanced\\, folk-infused indie rock\
 \, the Richmond\\, Virginia band embroiders heartfelt melody and harmony 
 with acoustic and electric instrumentation to create a 12-song rumination
  on time\\, love and personal growth that’s equal parts urgent epiphany
  and contented exhalation.\\n“Everybody says people don’t listen to a
 lbums anymore\\,” mulled Carbon Leaf frontman Barry Privett\\, holed up
  in a coastal cottage. “So\\, the challenge for us was to make somethin
 g that felt good to get through from beginning to end … to listen to li
 ke a story.”\\nOriginally formed as a college cover band in 1992 and wi
 th over 3\\,500 famously enthused live shows together\\, Carbon Leaf help
 ed to define the aughts indie rock that they ultimately outgrew and outla
 sted. They first earned national recognition with “The Boxer\\,” a so
 ng that won the American Music Awards 2002 New Music Award and made Carbo
 n Leaf the first unsigned band to perform before millions on the AMAs.\\n
 “The Boxer” entered regular radio rotation\\, Carbon Leaf’s tours g
 rew bigger and better\\, and within a couple of years they quit their day
  jobs and inked a record deal. The band’s fanbase snowballed\\, drawn t
 o their infectious spirit of commitment\\, empathy\\, communion\\, and se
 lfreliance – not to mention supremely crafted songs with ultra-relatabl
 e\\, thought-provoking lyrics.\\nAfter a trio of charting albums for Vang
 uard Records\\, multiple songwriting awards and headlining shows\\, Carbo
 n Leaf opted to return to the complete creative control of their indie ro
 ots. Guitarist Terry Clark\\, who co-founded the band with Privett and mu
 lti-instrumentalist Carter Gravatt\\, converted his garage into the band�
 ��s Two-Car Studio\\, where they’ve recorded releases for their own Con
 stant Ivy imprint ever since. Carbon Leaf’s DIY spirit even extended to
  re-recording their three Vanguard albums in order to regain the rights.\
 \nDue in September\\, Time is the Playground is Carbon Leaf’s first ful
 l-length album in a decade\\, during which they released two EPS and a 27
 -song live performance album and Blu-ray. Time is the Playground gathers 
 the best of songs written\\, in fits and starts\\, over 15 years\\, along
 side brand new ideas. Privett dusted off old demos and shut himself away 
 for months to finish their stories\\, while also honing recent compositio
 ns. With Clark engineering\\, Carbon Leaf – completed by longtime bassi
 st Jon Markel and drummer Jesse Humphrey – spent a year and a half reco
 rding and mixing the resulting songs.\\n“Thinking about these disparate
  pieces of music\\, I began ruminating on time itself\\,” Privett recal
 led. “The band’s been together a long time. You mature a bit and see 
 yourself in place on the timeline … rolling around the scenes of love a
 nd growth.”\\nMasterfully melding saturated AC/DC guitar and squelchy C
 ars synth\\, “Backmask 1983” is a fun flipbook of evocative era emble
 ms – Farah Fawcett\\, “Satanic Panic\\,” Time Life Books\\, Bigfoot
  and more – that traverses the simultaneous nexus of Privett’s childh
 ood/adolescence and the world’s analog/digital ages. It’s about morph
 ing into a new person and a new planet with wideeyed wonder and a longing
  to believe. “Without a whole lot of information\\, the mystery of thin
 gs felt so heightened\\,” recalled Privett of growing up pre-Internet. 
 “I wanted to capture some of that but also have fun with it.” “I wa
 nt what we create to resonate with ourselves\\, to the level that we want
  to play it for a long time to come\\, and where we want others to hear i
 t and experience it\\,” Privett concluded. “Hopefully\\, listeners ca
 n glean the pieces from it that they identify with.”\\nTime is the Play
 ground will be accompanied by the tireless touring almost synonymous with
  Carbon Leaf\\, who’ve become a model for self-managing bands in the di
 gital landscape.\\nhttps://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/burlin
 gton/events/carbon-leaf-at-higher-ground-2026-11-13
LOCATION:UVM Prism Center
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