Bio
Bucks County songwriter Carol Lyman is winning listeners over with her songs.
A reluctant performer she only recently began sharing them on quiet stages where her story songs can be best heard. Songs that depict common everyday experiences with startling clarity. Songs about backseat romance, unspeakable loss, or a girl in a pretty cotton dress. Songs that make the universal true and the truth universal.
Sixty-plus years of living have given Lyman much to draw from. She’s spent the past five holed up in an old stone farm house mining a lifetime’s worth of experiences, observations and unsolved mysteries. Her songs offer simple truths we may already know but haven't heard before.
When not writing she attended dozen of songwriting workshops in the US, Canada, Scotland and Italy. Her teachers became mentors, including Hall of Fame/Grammy winning song writers Gretchen Peters, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Richard Thompson, Mary Gauthier, Verlon Thompson and Darrell Scott.
When it comes to grabbing hold of an audience her lyrics do the heavy lifting.
“They certainly don’t come to hear me sing,” she says half jokingly.
In low, halting, half whispered tones she sings about common, everyday experiences with startling clarity. Her songs offer fresh takes on simple truths, cautionary tales, or reminiscences of the past. Songs that make the universal true and the truth universal.
Lyman has always subscribed to the “write what you know” theory.
“I just never expected it to take the better part of a lifetime before I knew anything”
She has no thoughts of quitting now that the floodgates have finally opened.
Some people write books about their life. Carol writes songs.