Originally from Louisville, Kentucky, where she worked with the Metropolitan Blues All Stars (June Appal Records, Taxim Records) the self-taught Caroline Dahl is a master pianist of the American roots styles of boogie-woogie, blues, vintage R&B, swing, country-swing, and roots R&R. On “No Hats,” her mostly-original debut release, she is featured on acoustic grand piano and accordion with no other accompaniment than trap drums, featuring the best of S. F. Bay Area expert sticksmen: Jimmy Sanchez (Roy Rogers, Boz Skaggs, Rhythmtown-Jive), Kent Bryson (the Johnny Nocturne Band), John Hanes (Pearl Harbour & The Explosions, Paris Slim), and Bowen Brown (Swing Session, Indigo Swing, John Lee Hooker).
Caroline Dahl, piano player for the driving American roots R&B group, Rhythmtown-Jive (Globe Records), has also worked many shows with Brenda Boykin, Jerry Shelfer, Those Darn Accordions, The Lickettes (formerly with Dan Hicks), The Melotones, and The Rhythm Sheiks, Tom Rigeny, as well as some memorable dates with Charlie Musselwhite, Dave Alvin, Sonny Burgess, and Long John Hunter.
Caroline is also an award-winner, published and internationally-exhibiting textile artist. This CD cover and other parts of the CD art feature several pieces of her embroidery.
If you want to hear some original piano in the American roots traditions of boogie-woogie, blues with rhythm, and swing with a little country influence, without all of the clutter of vocals and heavy production, then this is the artist for you!