Carroll calls his recent stuff "cinematic country," an alluring term that could be read several ways. We'll take it to mean he's the truest sort of storyteller. Propelled by road-weary vocals and gritty guitar, Carroll's narratives feel like a series of rich images moving across our screen.
The Lost One is a collection of twelve cinematic country songs by Barton Carroll. Since 2002, Barton Carroll has toured and recorded extensively with Crooked Fingers and Eric Bachmann, playing guitar, steel guitar, and upright bass. Carroll has also toured, playing various instruments with Azure Ray, Dolorean, and Micah P. Hinson.
"There's a timelessness to the ten performances on Barton Carroll's second album. They exude depth of character, passion and commitment. His songs have a literary bearing that puts him in the ranks of Paul Kelly, Nick Cave and Greg Brown.....'Small Thing' is the sort of song a career can be built upon."
-Harp Magazine-December, 2006
“....a dramatic statement of purpose; a thoughtful and inventive work that should appeal to those who often find themselves at the crossroads of the personal and the political.”
— No Depression