Debu Magazine Exclusive Interview with Steve Carroll By Kendel Garcia
Kendel: How did you get into music?
people ask me I usually just say... guitar, piano and
Steve: I think I've always been into music, ever since harmonica, cause those seem to be my staples. I was a little kid. I remember building my own drum sets out of pots and pans, and filling up water glass- Kendel: If there is one thing you want es to make my own xylophones. But I think the main people to get out of your music what is reason why I got into songwriting was because my
it?
older cousin Tommie, of the band Kelleen, started
Steve: I don't know if I'm really looking for people
writing and preforming about a year before I did,
to “get� anything in particular from my music, per
and he inspired me to pick up songwriting for my-
say. But rather, I'd like to get them to think about
self.
things: about God, about their own earthly re-
lationships, or about their need for both. I Kendel: How many instruments do you play? Steve: A lot, maybe too many, cause I'll often try to find a place for all these weird sounding instruments in my recordings. Sometimes that works out for the best, and sometimes it doesn't. But when
think maybe in this case introspection is it's own reward. So that, in the end, I'm not really giving them anything with my music, except what they already had to begin with. Kendel: What are your plans for your
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