Carey Ott is digging Nashville!                8/17/11

Arriving in Nashville from Chicago 7 years ago, Carey's not only digging it, he's embraced Music City USA with a passion - and it's reciprocal! It's no wonder that Carey has long been recognized by his peers along with a growing number of music fans as "a uniquely gifted singer - songwriter - producer - musician." And now Ladies, Gentlemen, Dogs, Cats and Birds here's the rest of the Story!

TV Placements

In The Land of Television, two of Carey's songs have just landed on the  USA Network series, Necessary Roughness. Season 1, Epsiode 8 - "Losing Your Swing" Air Date: August 17th, 2011, this coming Wednesday at 10pm/9pm Central. The songs are "Wish I Could" from his Human Heart release, and from his catalogue of compositions - "Everywhere The Wind Blows". Two stylish pop - rockers whose cinematic resonance perfectly underscore an intimate Cafe Scene with the stars of the show.

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MOG's Network's Music Editors have chosen Carey as one of their Top 3 Emerging Artists in the Pop music category for a custom marketing campaign with Toshiba!

MOG,COM is an online community where music lovers can discover people through music and music through people. None of us knew this was coming so it is always gratifying and hugely welcomed amongst the wars inside and outside the big black hole of the music industry. It runs through the end of September. PLEASE VOTE IN THE POP CATEGORY FOR CAREY. We'd be honored if you would spread the word around!

Toshiba Search For The Next Innovator: MOG editors find the top 3 emerging bands in three different genres: Hip-Hop, Pop & Rock. Consumers can listen to a track from one of the 9 artists and vote for their favorite directly from a custom voting unit or on a Toshiba-branded hub. Consumers are also rewarded with an MP3 download pack from the participating bands to help encourage viral extension. The band with the most votes receives Toshiba tablets for all members, a cash prize of $1000 plus MOG will produce and syndicate a custom video interview with the band and a top site in the network to help promote their new album.

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Signed with Pig Factory Music Publishing

Carey has just signed a world wide publishing administration agreement with Pig Factory Music Publishing for Film - TV - Advertising representation. Another integral part of the Carey Ott team in place. Nice company with a world wide reach and credible Hollywood presence to tap into the Olympics of Synchronization!

Co-Writing

Besides continuously working on his own music Carey co-writes as often as possible with the likes of :

Eric Paslay, Matt Warren, Dylan Altman, Rose Falcon, Jack Tempchin, Matthew Perryman Jones, Ben Cooper, Iain Archer, Daniel Tashian, Jedd Hughes, Kym Warner, Eric Schermerhorn, Vince Melamed, Jeremy Lister, Kendrick "Wyldcard" Dean, Neilson Hubbard, Gabe Dixon Trent Dabbs and Jeff Dawson... to name the core of the superbly talented composers - artists that Carey has had the privilege of collaborating with.

On the subject of co-writing, The Silver Seas, formerly The Bees (U.S.), a pop-rock band from Nashville, are releasing their new CD in the UK on The Lights Label/EMI. The first single is scheduled for release late September with "The Best Things In Life" to impact on the same day. Written by Carey, Jason Lehning and Daniel Tashian. A sophisticated rocker with a unique character " The Best Things In Life " will impact the UK music charts!

A vital component of the marketing strategy is in conjunction with the highly acknowledged UK publication, Word Magazine. "The Best Things In Life" will be included on their sampler around the same time. 

In addition, Nashville based, The Greencards " Brick Album " was recently released. Time Magazine review says "...laid-back tunes with an infectious rhythm that lands in a sweet spot halfway between Americana and bluegrass".

From their current biography, The Greencards quote that " the world becomes more than ever their stage. Their sound defies category, balancing taste and technique, engaging lyrics and melodies and wildly creative arrangements. There may be a wall on its cover, but the future suggested on these tracks knows no barrier. "

Carey and founding member, Kym Warner co-wrote the wistful "Faded ," a sweetly harmonized tune, so natural that you don't even notice its unusual 5/4 time signature. If you're a fan of Carey's music, then it isn't any wonder that The Greencards & Carey Ott are mutual admirers and have the exceptional talents to turn a 5/4 song into a Fan Favourite! 

Reviews of Human Heart

The Vancouver Province / vancouver's mainstream newspaper
Tom Harrison - The Vancouver Province - E-Today - Tuesday, January 17 / 11

A CD with this many songs, 20, and this long, nearly 80 minutes, shouldn't work. Oddly, this one does, due mainly to the fact Ott is a talented songwriter. Ott also takes several different approaches that make him unpredictable. Case in point is that Ott nails you with the sincerity of the folky tone of opener "Anyone," but then immediately goes electric with "Save My Life" and then wages a Jack Johnson-like singalong by third track "Ain't No Upside." B

The Daily News / Stamford, Connecticut

They say you should write about what you know, which is why most singer/songwriters tend to pen tunes that deal with their ownexperiences. Nashville-based rocker Carey Ott followed that blueprint on his "Lucid Dream" debut. For the follow-up,.Dream" debut. For the follow-up, how- ever, Ott has made a concerted effort to connect with listeners on a personal level and the ambitious "Human Heart" is the result., There's a superb album to be found here, but because "Human Heart" is about twice as long as it needs to be with 20 tracks clocking in at 73 minutes, it'll take some searching to find the dozen or so really good tunes. Ott's talent is obvious on keep- ers such as "Save My Life, " "Coming Up for Air, " the title track, "Under Control, " "Curiosity (Killed a Man)" and "Last Train Leaving." But too much filler ("Wish I Could," "Bigredbutton," "Getting Thru") prevents this good album from being great. (JS)

Selected Online Reviews of Human Heart 

MAVERICK / ? ? ? ? Quality pop-rock from Nashville

Nashville-based singer-songwriter Carey Ott unleashes his second full-length album with a great opener in Anyone, a great pop song that sets the tone for what is to follow. Though recorded in Nashville and utilising Music Row writers like Vince Melamed, Jedd Hughes and Ben Cooper, alongside Carey's own self-penned songs, this album is not country. It's more roots rock with the occasional pop and country overtones. It's a twenty-track set with a playing time of almost 75 minutes, so you do get value for money. Rather surprisingly, none of the tracks needed to be skipped through, each and every song offered something worth listening to again and again.

Though this album is full of instantly memorable melodies, Ott has managed to marry those melodies with insightful lyrics that explore the human psyche, mainly in an uplifting and positive way. You'll find yourself tapping your feet, singing along, a smile broadening across your face through Be Honest, Wish I Could and Just Happy. Quality music like this should be embraced regardless of genres, fads or fashions.

Indie Roundup - New Indie CDs  / by Jon Sobel

It's a big production, this one—20 songs, almost an hour and quarter of genre-coasting pop-rock. It feels like a concept album, except the concept is the human experience. "I don't have the answers, only love," Ott sings in "Ain't No Upside" amid relaxed electric piano filigrees. On the whole the disc has a soft, acoustic sensibility despite the full arrangements, and this comes partly from the simple yet sophisticated melodies. Well-crafted songs for adults? A whole album of them? Shocker. Even the occasional lapse into sugary James Blunt-style wimpiness (as in "Coming Up for Air") I can enjoy because of the artfully arranged moodiness of the music. "I'm just happy to be part of the show," Ott sings in "Just Happy," and he makes you believe it—and start feeling the same way yourself. Read more

Pop Matters - An Epic of Epic Epicness / By Zachary Houle

Nashville singer/songwriter Carey Ott may be only two records deep into his career, but with Human Heart he has unleashed what can only be described as an epic. It is 20 songs long and runs for about 73 minutes, making it what us old-timers stuck in the vinyl age would call a double album. Bursting with all sorts of ideas and enough genre-switcheroos to make your head spin, you would be forgiven if you were to think that Human Heart sets itself up for an epic fail just in its scope and ambition. But you know what? It generally works and hangs together well. There are a bevy of highlights to be found here, from the rootsy Jack Johnson-esque "Ain't No Upside" to the Michael Penn sound-a-like "Style" (which incorporates lyrics from "The Star-Spangled Banner") to the Madness-meets-U2 sound of "Wish I Could:

Human Heart is a sprawling, ambitious listen and one that rewards listeners who want to hear an artist in possession of a dynamic range with his songwriting chops. Ott clearly has a lot of heart, and if you're looking for an album that you'll have to call in sick to work to fully digest, Human Heart clearly delivers.

*Zachary Houle is a writer living in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He has been a Pushcart Prize nominee for his short fiction, and the recipient of a writing arts grant from the City of Ottawa. He has had journalism published in SPIN magazine, The National Post (Canada), Canadian Business, and more.

Six String Sanctuary - Nonconformist discussions about the music and vibes that connect our lives. - Posted by Jim Smith at 12:22 AM

The upside of Carey Ott Carey Ott is an artist you should pay attention to. It may seem surprising to hear us say this because we don't spend a lot of time mining the pop genre. What is pop, anyway? Carey Ott is pop, and this makes pop okay. If Ott were to take a stage name that mostly aptly describes his craft he might be known as Pop Hook. (Dr. Hook is already taken.) The man is a virtuoso at writing catchy lyrics and turning them into irresistable rhythms, melodies and beats that send you down the sidewalk with a skip in your step. He's the artist most likely to have music appear on a TV episode (which has happened several times) or a movie soundtrack. And what's wrong with that? Take the song "Ain't No Upside (Living on tha Downside)" from his 2010 album Human Heart. Play the clip above from an in-studio taping and give us your honest assessment. It's not easy to isolate a single song because Ott is so prolific -- he had to whittle down Human Heart to 20 songs and probably has written twice that many since then, some of them even rising above "Ain't No Upside." Many are collaborations with other artists in his Nashville studio. Sew those lyrical oats any way you can.

Music News Nashville - Janet Goodman
His sophomore full-length album "Human Heart" is an ambitious 20-track phenomenon bursting with warm and organic arrangements of catchy pop/rock melodies that are deliciously reminiscent of the Lennon/McCartney energy. Read more

Reviews from i-Tunes

Worth The Wait / by ECLECTICDJ ? ? ? ? ?

It has been a while since we had some new music from Carey Ott. But he has obviously been busy crafting away. It's a really nice collection of songs that span a range of styles and tones. The production is spot on. The playing is perfect and he's in fine voice throughout. It's one of those albums that you can put on and listen to straight through without ever wanting to jump up and switch tracks. 

There are standouts: Last Train Leaving, Human Heart, Save My Life, Ain't No Upside and Be Honest are outstanding. Fortunately he's given us a lot of songs here to hold us over to the next outing. Great CD. Can't wait for more. 

Springsteen + Coldplay + Adams = Carey / by FleetingAlex ? ? ? ? ?

Great songwriters simplify the complex and beautify the mundane. I usually have reservations on albums. I'm more of a singles-fan.

Carey's album is incredible. Goosebumps on your arms, singing along with a hundred thousand people incredible, even in its most intimate moments. This is what Ryan Adams and Coldplay come through with at their best. It's the kind of songwriting "The River"-era Springsteen churned out.

A must-have and certainly one to chart near the top of my "year end" list

From the critically acclaimed debut Lucid Dream

"Carey Ott's sweet vignettes ooze an epic-indieness, like a Rufus Wainwright or Teddy Thompson, just without the family drama, and with vocals reminiscent of a Ron Sexsmith combined with the upbeat indie rock of Brendon Benson. Expect to be winding down your window, singing along to the radio sometime soon." - Uncut Magazine / UK

"Recommended for audiences who are starved for something fresh yet uncannily comfortable and familiar. The kind of artist whose gifts are seen rarely in any given generation." - Chicago Tribune

"A driving Oasis appeal with a penchant for Beatles melodic ethic." -American Songwriter Magazine"A voice that conjures up an immediate intimacy with incredible pop sensibilities."  - eMusic.com