“Kim Carson is as fine a roots/country singer as someone like Rosie Flores. Her brand of high Octane Twang is traditional without being retro.” - Alex Rawls (OffBeat Magazine)

Kim Carson grew up in Canyon, Texas in the high plains of the Texas panhandle and began playing music in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Kim Carson has been named “Best Country Artist” by readers of OffBeat eight times. Her concert album “Live at Tipitina’s” was voted “Best Country Album” of 2004. After making a name for herself as the undisputed “Queen of Louisiana Honky Tonk Music” and distinguishing herself as a formidable Country songwriter, Carson moved back to her home state of Texas to form “Buffalo Speedway” a Renegade Honky Tonk band.

Carson releases her fifth CD this summer titled “Buffalo Speedway” named for a street in Houston, Texas where she now resides. She’s a full-time musician performing in the original music clubs from Texas to Florida to Nashville and has appeared on several “Outlaw country” shows with David Allan Coe, Junior Brown, Dale Watson, Jesse Dayton, John Anderson, The Hollisters and Loretta Lynn..

Carson’s music is the real deal country with influences from Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and Loretta Lynn. “She’s less Diva and more Honky Tonk girl.”

Kim Carson has appeared at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival ten times and also plays regularly at the French Quarter Fest, Louisiana Crawfish Festival, BayFest in Mobile, Alabama, the Shrimp Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama and many other festivals around the south and in Europe.

Kim and her band perform regularly at the dancehall in legendary Luckenbach, Texas! She’s also been invited to played at the Bluebird Café in Nashville, Tennessee. This summer Kim has postponed her annual tour of Europe to stay in Texas and perform at T-Roy Miller’s “Pickin’ in the Pines” in May, Smokey Wilson’s “Party in the Pasture” in June and the “Mickey Newberry Gathering” in July. She’ll also participate in the Kerrville Folk Festival and the “Texas Music Nation”.

Later this summer Kim will perform at the American Music Festival in Silkeborg, Denmark and the Routes du Rock Festival in Lavardac, France among other festivals.

Kim’s motto is “Don’t Fear the TWANG!”