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Carey Ott’s debut record release on Dualtone Records will be released North American wide in Fall 2006.
"Am I Just One", The first track on the limited edition Self titled EP and the lead off track of the “Lucid Dream” album has been chosen for the Jan. 22nd episode of ABC's huge hit TV show, Grey's Anatomy. Grey’s Anatomy is a critic's and fan favorite and enjoys up to 16,000,000 viewers weekly.
Check out Carey's E-card for further in-depth information.
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Epiphone/Gibson Guitars flew Carey and his band into Anaheim to do their closing party/showcase on Jan. 21/06 at
the winter NAMM. The showcase was held at the Hilton Hotel. It was a hugely important show as NAMM is attended by over
20,000 music industry peeps. The Hilton was jam packed. Carey and his band were second on the bill playing right after Suzanne Paris and Skunk Baxter who opened the show. Carey played a one hour show.
Mick Fleetwood, Twisted Sister, Jack Cassidy and Matchbox Romance were also on the bill. It was an amazing melting pot of great music!
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Carey is endorsed by Epiphone Guitars and personally thanks his artist rep Cara Hogan and the Epiphone Organization for this great opportunity. Carey is also endorsed by Ernie Ball Strings and Bluetron Amplifiers.
2005-2006 OVERVIEW
Part 1: As you will read in the summation below, 2005 was a very good year for Carey Ott. It’s 2006 and now time to give you an update on Carey’s recent and up and coming activities. The breaking news is that Carey’s song “Am I Just One” has been chosen for the January 15th episode of the hit ABC television series, Grey’s Anatomy. It has a viewer-ship of 15.7 million. Interesting enough “the color gray” is in the lyric. Also on the the cooler side of life is that Carey and his band have been selected by Epiphone/Gibson Guitars to perform at the Winter NAMM Conference on Saturday Jan. 21, 2006 for their closing night VIP soiree’. It’s exclusive by invitation only and Carey will be performing in front of 300 music industry types. What a great way to kick off 2006!
A Dualtone sampler CD of their new artists was included in approximately 15,000 issues of the December 2005 issue of respected singer/songwriters magazine, HARP. The Sampler leads off with Carey’s “I Wouldn’t Do That To You”, “Daylight”, “Am I Just One”. Carey and his band, who are: Aaron Fisher - drums/percussion, Satchel Paige Welch - guitar/vox, Kai Welch - keys/vox, and Geoff Sprung - bass/vox, begun rehearsals Sunday, Dec. 11 at their new rehearsal spot in the countryside of Nashville. Their first gig with this lineup was at 12th and Porter. It’s another of Matt Wilder’s presentations of “the Wilder side of Nashville!”
The reaction to Carey’s promotional 3 1/2 song EP has been encouraging. Dualtone made up 15,000 of these with the purpose in mind to distribute throughout the North American continent to create a foundation in anticipation of a full length release in what looks to be around Springtime 2006.
With Epiphones in hand, a brand new band, an indie label who “gets” it, and a team of determined industry pro’s Carey is set to lay down his marker! If you haven’t already signed up to Carey’s fan list please do through this web site on the mailing list page. Read through the site and pick up more information on Carey.
If you haven’t already please take a look into Carey’s myspace.com page. Check out a few more songs, a new band picture and some personal updates by Carey himself. www.myspace.com/careyottsongs
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2005 HIGHLIGHTS
 Lovetosing.info has quickly become a premier resource site for singers all over the world. They chose Carey to be featured in their Listening Room. Their bands are hand-picked by a listening team of music lovers all over the country. You can check out the Listening Room at: http://www.lovetosing.info/listen.htm
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 Carey had his songs "I Wouldn't Do That to You"  and "You Got Love" selected amongst thousands of entries for a summer promotion between Coors and the digital download service, Sony Connect. Titled, "Taste the Cold...Get the Music," the campaign involved redemption codes on 1 BILLION Coors light bottles/cans offering free downloads through Sony Connect and involved six multi-platinum selling artists and nine up and comers. Coors and Sony committed over 25 million dollars to marketing through print, TV, radio and positioning. This promotion included major artists such as Moby, Hoobastank, Oasis and John Legend along with several other emerging artists.
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 Garageband update: 1/1/06 - Carey’s song, “Daylight” had a long run at #1 at the Indie chart and #114 in the Rock chart. It has been archived all time at #20 on the Indie chart and #114 on the Rock chart. Overall “Daylight” received several top 10
accolades including several #1’s from lyrics to melody to production to vocals etc.
“You Got Love” has been submitted to garageband.com and it has made an instant and positive impression. It has shot to #22 within a month. It was trackof the day on Dec.15/06. It has also won top 10 weekly honors from best male vocals, lyrics, melody, guitar, production and feel good track of the week.
click here to visit Carey’s page at Garageband
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 For Carey Ott, former creative force of Chicago based Torben Floor, 2005 has been an extremely busy and life-changing year. He signed a solo record contract with highly respected Nashville based Dualtone Music Group and made an extremely innovative and timeless record in Nashville with producer Ray Kennedy (Steve Earle, Ron Sexsmith, John Mellencamp) along with co-producer and Chicago musician Ed Tinley (Ike Reilly band / Liz Phair).
Carey's debut album entitled "Lucid Dream" is set to be released in Fall 2006. For a brief look into the future check out some song clips by clicking here.
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SUMMATION
The music biz is intense and crazed. We could use everyone’s assistance to help us on this journey so as insiders at the beginning of what we all hope will be a career building CD release please keep Carey in mind when you’re “talking music!”
In general Carey has settled into the more laid back style of Music City USA. He has been introduced to some prolific songwriters etc. who have heard what Carey has accomplished and are ready to write with him. So don’t be surprised if a co-write reaches the country charts or any chart for that matter. Nashville is home to some of the great poets of the world and Carey is slowly but surely making his presence felt.
There’s a heck of a lot more going on but these are some of the highlights heading into 2006. We consider everyone receiving this news update as an integral link to Carey’s success as a recording artist. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any questions or concerns and if you have any ideas for gigs that you think Carey may be suited to play in your area let us know. We are compiling a list of reputable venues that Carey would be suited to play at. We’re always looking for street team members so do not hesitate to contact us if you’re feeling so inclined.
Finally we have been collecting quotes. Please link here to read some of the ones that have come in. Thanks so much for your interest in Carey Ott. Cheers! GT |
