On the Cover – Carolyn Dawn Johnson

6/7/2004 – June 2004

Label: Arista Nashville
Booking: Creative Artists Agency
Management: Mike Robertson Management
Producers: Dan Huff/Carolyn Dawn Johnson
Current Single: “Die of A Broken Heart”
Current Video: “Simple Life”

Birth Date: April 30
Interests: cooking, movies, travel, photography, hiking, anything about music
Interesting Facts: Spokesperson for Children’s Miracle Network; her first concert was Charlie Pride and she has since performed twice with him on the Opry stage; built her own quinze (igloo) and slept in it overnight in -35° Celsius weather
Awards: American Music Awards (2003) Favorite New Artist—Country Music; Academy of Country Music (2002) Top New Female Vocalist; Canadian Country Music Association (2002)—Female Artist, and Single and Video for “I Don’tWant You To Go;” CCMA (2001) Female Artist of the Year, Album for Room With a View, Single for “Complicated;” Juno (2002) Best Country Artist/Group; SOCAN Song of the Year for “Complicated,” and Chevy Truck Rising Star Award (fan voted); Music Row Magazine (2000) Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year
Hits: As an artist—”Simple Life,” “I Don’t Want You to Go,” “Complicated,” “Georgia;” As a writer—”Single White Female” (Chely Wright),“Downtime” (Jo Dee Messina)
Musical Influences: All and any kind of music

After penning tunes for artists like Chely Wright and Jo Dee Messina, Caroline Dawn Johnson successfully launched her own artist career with the 2001 release of Room With A View. The hit single, “Complicated” helped establish this Candian-born singer at radio.

Her new album, Dress Rehearsal, showcases Johnson’s development as an artist and is set to expand on the success of her debut outing. “I think it’s a big growth from Room with a View,” she says. “The sound is a notch up, too. While the first record is a lot more searching and hoping, mixed with maybe some sadness, this one is introspective in a different way, yet very joyful. And I think I’ve learned more in the studio.”

She credits some of her creative growth in the studio to her producer, Dann Huff.“He’s such a genius,” she says. “In my head, I hear melodies and sometimes I’ll sing ’em to a musician and say, ‘Can you try playing this?’ And Dann was totally open to that. He never made me feel like my ideas were unimportant. I’d sing little things, and he’d take it and do it, then put an extra flair of his own stuff on it. So it was the right choice, going to him.”