News and Announcements

  • Aug 29 2010
    "Anyone" placed in ABC Familys' "Make It or Break It". "Anyone" - the lead track from Carey Ott's soon to be released CD, "Human Heart," is proving to be a made-to-measure track for television. "Anyone" will be featured on the season finale of "Make It Or Break It" airing on Tuesday, August 31st on ABC Family at 9/8c. "Make it or Break It" focuses on the lives of teen gymnasts who strive to make it to the Olympic Games. Placed over a lilting finger-style acoustic guitar, "Anyone" is the perfect song to punctuate a drama...
  • Aug 12 2010
    Carey Ott continues to mingle with Vampires and Werewolves on ABC Network's " The GATES " with his second song placement in a month.How it feels to yearn for one who's wrong. We all know the feeling, the compulsion. Nelson Algren, who wrote the novel, A Walk on the Wild Side, advised, "Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own." Sage words -that we've all ignored. Carey Ott sings of the compulsion to drown in the vortex of sin in "War Within. On ABC's The Gates' "Dog Eat Dog", airing 10 pm ET / PT Sunday, Aug.15. 2010, this song will track the lure of the vampire, the soul-guttering despair of the human heart when the object of one's obsession embodies the gates...
  • Jul 8 2010
    CAREY OTT Carey Ott lends assist to The Vampire Craze! Carey Ott writes songs of yearning and wonder. He renders them to their simplest components and delivers them in in a voice full of hope and heartbreak. Like soft bullets they hit you where you live and where you think and where you need to feel not so alone. Such a song is Anyone, which was chosen for the soundtrack to the July 11 episode of the new ABC vampires-among-us series, The Gates. A simple message: "Anyone can...." Positivity, yet delivered in an aching voice that questions the very words as it delivers them. Placed over a lilting finger-style acoustic guitar, you have a song to punctuate a drama of life among the undead. And to send viewers scrambling to Google to type in "The Gates...
  • Apr 14 2010
    Pledge Music Hello people! Carey here. I am writing to invite you to be a part of the making of my new record!! pledgemusic.com/projects/careyott I’ve got a lot of great songs, some are totally there, some are almost there, and others still need a little studio wizardry to PERFECT! Your Pledge will help me to not only finish the record and print up CD’s but will also mean that I can hit the open road and bring my music to YOU…The Fans :-) I’ve come up with some really sweet ways for all of you to get involved and will be donating 10% of all funds to Bread For The World. Such a basic thing, right? Everybody gotta eat...
  • Apr 7 2010
    "I am looking forward to my interview on Friday with singer – songwriter Carey Ott, listening to Dave Stewart (formerly of the Eurythmics) speak and there are so many other good options tomorrow that are running simultaneously that I really have not settled on which panels and seminars I am going to attend." http://www.rivetingriffs.com/cmw_2.htm "For Friday March 12th, I made a commitment to get out there and experience some of the indie bands that were performing, but before I did I took time in the afternoon to sit down and talk to Nashville based singer – songwriter Carey Ott, whose song “Ain’t No Upside,” will be a monster hit, but not in the traditional sense of commercial radio, but we predict that Carey Ott will establish himself as an indie artist in much the same way that Jack...
  • Mar 7 2010
    Canadian Music Week 2010 Carey Ott's relentless work ethic continues to pay off. He travels to Toronto, Canada, March 10-13 to be part of one of the most prolific and long-running music conferences in the world. CMW celebrates 28 years and continues to thrive amidst the recent turbulence in the industry. Ott has been selected to play two showcases, participate as speaker and be a part of CMW's Mentors Cafe Series. At 34, Ott is a veteran of the Indie music scene. Raised in small town Ottawa, Illinois, he refined his musical chops in Chicago and has resided in Nashville for the past five years. Carey plays at the Conference Center at the...
  • Feb 4 2010
    Checkout these links for some recent reviews of Carey ! http://djcatnap.com/?p=625 http://sixstringsanctuary.blogspot.com Jan 4th 2010
  • Dec 13 2009
    Merry Christmas to you !! And A Happy and Healthy 2010 !! Carey Ott - Human Heart / Delivered in 2010 Carey's Song "Christmastime" Featured by Lightning 100 - Nashville's Independent Radio Station, in the week of Dec 7. 2009
  • Nov 24 2009
    The Collector On a recent road trip to Chicago in late September Carey spent three days shooting a video. No script in hand, lots of thoughts and a beautiful sunny day in Chicago is how it started. The director / videographer / guru at large was Jim Quattrocki of www.rockoproductions.com...Two more days of intense and thoughtful visions and it was done. Two days later we received the first edit. For an in-depth dimension of sight and sounds check it out at www.vimeo.com/6782959. TV, Film, and Beyond Carey has been fortunate having "I Wouldn't Do That To You" from the Dualtone Records release of "Lucid Dream" chosen by the Warner TV Group's music producers to be a...
  • Sep 13 2009
    Carey Ott Newsletter p {color:#000;} td {padding:0; vertical-align:top;} Welcome Carey continues to do select solo acoustic gigs as he travels back and forth from Nashville to San Jose working with co-producer Terry Carleton recording his imminently released 20 song cd, HUMAN HEART. It's a major works in progress with over 200 songs to harvest and pick from. There has been a Toronto connection with producer Ben Pelchat added to the mix and this writer must express that amongst the mayhem and artistry it is developing into a piece of work that will do his previous critically acclaimed release on Dualtone Music Group, LUCID DREAM, proud. Artwork by Nashville's Wayne Brezinka, photography by Nashville's David...
  • Aug 15 2009
    Greetings music lovers! Just a quick note to say hello and let Y'all know what Carey has been up to. Still working on the new cd release of Human Heart. A labor of Labor and Love! Check out this recent blog reviewing a couple of songs from the Human Heart sessions. http://www.djcatnap.com/?p=221. Check out the poster enclosed for imminent activity. We are reaching out to our street team in preparation for the cd release. If you have volunteered, or would like to, please give us a shout to connect / re-connect. If you are a fan in general and would like to assist in getting the word out about Carey please take a little time out to use your social media skills to spread the word throughout facebook, twitter etc. Please check out this new site http://www.music-oasis.com/. Unfortunately it...
  • Aug 15 2009
    Carey is taking some time off his pretty crazy recording / producing / writing schedule to Fly out to California to do a couple of gigs in Santa Barbara Wine Country. He spins over to San Jose to work with producer / engineer Terry Carleton for 8 days beginning May 11 to begin recording his new CD, titled "Human Heart." Carey will be crisscrossing between Nashville and San jose over the next 2-3 mo.'s. We'd like to offer Y'all "Remind Me To Remind You" as a free download as a celebritory kick off! Pass it along to your friends if you're digging it. Beginning mid-July we'll be offering up a song a week leading into the release of "Human Heart". Sceduled for a late fall release. Check out http://www.myspace.com/careyott for further songs that are candidates for the San Jose Sessions....