"Adam Carroll might be peddling short stories to the New Yorker today had he not fallen into a rock n' roll fantasy, namely the notion that he could get girls with a guitar. He's not saying if it worked, but literature's loss is music's gain. Carroll's keen observations of the commonplace yield characters as familiar as the next cab driver, or the guy slinging suds in the coffee shop kitchen. With marvelous economy, the former student of poetry and creative writing imparts a vital sense of character and motivation, like, say, Faulkner or Steinbeck, or, for that matter, Guy Clark."

- linda Ray, No Depression

"...Carroll's modesty is suspicious when it comes from a talent with such startling promise. both of Carroll's CD's are studded with folksy gems-- heartfelt ballads that flash with sly wit and passages of complex, alternative rhyme, backed up by rambunctious strumming and harmonica riffs that inevitably recall early Dylan. Factor in clean cut good looks and the guy becomes positively galling."

- M.V. Moorehead, Get Out, tempe, Az

"there could be no finer young man to carry the mantle of classic texas singer-songwriter than Austin's Adam Carroll. He wields his acoustic guitar and harmonica as proficiently as any crusty ol' troubadour, and his latest release, looking Out the Screen Door, is nothing short of outstanding. (Hard Rock Cafe, 10pm)

- Christopher Hess, Austin Chronicle SXSW 2002 Sleepers

"With song pacing and a voice reminiscent of John Prine and an active imagination and slightly twisted sense of humor that likely has the ghost of townes Van Zandt smiling from the clouds, Carroll is making marks on the international troubadour road."

- Jim beal Jr. , San Antonio Express-News

"[Adam] Carroll looks to be the latest great texas songwriter to graduate from townes Van Zandt State...John Prine with a big dose of butch Hancock."

- Michael Corcoran, Austin American-Statesman

"South of town reveals smart, quirky, very Dylanesque songs-often complete with self-accompaniment on wheezy harmonica-with roots deep in Mr. Carroll's East texas homeland."

- Matt Weitz, Dallas Morning News