Carbon Leaf

Carbon Leaf emerged from the Richmond, VA, music community that also fostered Dave Matthews Band, Agents of Good Roots, and Pat McGee Band, shaping the group’s rootsy, Celtic-influenced rock. Guitarist Terry Clark, vocalist Barry Privett, bassist Jordan Medas, guitarist Carter Gravatt, and drummer Scott Milstead steadily cultivated a substantial audience before issuing recordings on their own imprint. Meander arrived in 1996, succeeded in rapid order by Shadows in the Banquet Hall and Ether-Electrified Porch Music. The 2001 release Echo Echo introduced a more mature sound and secured victory in a Coca-Cola-sponsored unsigned band contest, earning the quintet a slot on the American Music Awards. Around the same period the band frequently supported adult alternative acts including DMB, John Mayer, Guster, and David Gray; their energetic road work was captured on the 2002 double live album 5 Alive!. Indian Summer followed in 2004. Released on Vanguard, the album marked Carbon Leaf’s first venture outside their own label and offered the clearest illustration of their polite, astute, and engaging approach. Love Loss Hope Repeat appeared in 2006.