Give Me All You Got is the fifth full-lengthsolo album from singer-songwriter and multiinstrumentalistCarrie Rodriguez. Produced by Lee Townsend (Bill Frisell,Loudon Wainwright III, Kelly Joe Phelps) at Berkeley s Fantasy Studiosand mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound NYC, the record marriesRodriguez s Texas background with a decade spent in Brooklyn, NY. Thesenew original tunes run the gamut of intense emotions, from heartache tobudding new love, from betrayal to resigned acceptance, and finally to thesheer joy of simply being alive, she says.Born in Austin, TX and raised on a broad range of pop, traditional andclassical music, Rodriguez began training on the violin at age five whilesimultaneously developing a taste for fiddling under the influence of herfather, singer\u002Fsongwriter David Rodriguez. She was awarded a scholarshipto Oberlin Conservatory of Music and moved on to graduate from the prestigiousBerklee College of Music. Frequent collaborator Chip Taylor (ofWild Thing and Angels of the Morning fame) discovered Rodriguez atthe 2001 SXSW music conference and invited her to play fiddle with him,asking her soon after to join him as both a singer and collaborator. She hasrecorded with John Mayer, Patty Griffin and Los Lonely Boys, and performedlive with Lyle Lovett, John Prine, Bill Frisell, Alejandro Escovedo,Los Lobos and Ricki Lee Jones, Jeff Bridges, and others.