Biography
Cletis Carr
Effective period / Period of releases: 1988
Cletis Carr (born 1959) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and record producer. Carr was a founder of the Pacific Northwest 1970s new wave music band Sneakers, before embarking on a solo career.Carr moved to Australia in 1986. He continued to play and release obscure solo releases between forming other bands such as Big Whiskey and Hillbilly Moon.
He co-owned three café / music venues and hosted regular Sunday songwriters' sessions in Sydney, taking a year out to run an independent record label, Figtree Words and Music, for seminal Aussie garage rockers Lime Spiders.
Throughout the next decade, he continued to record, perform, and tour, mainly in Australia, the UK, Ireland and Europe.
Carr maintains residences in both Sydney Australia, and Nashville Tennessee.