For the New Jersey-born and Wyoming-braised singer-songwriter, what started as a self-exploration into the Mountain West has now become the early stages of a promising career as folk artist. Carly King just wants to “go to the mountains alone, buy a plane ticket home and throw out her phone…”
In October of 2020, King introduced the world to her sound with those lyrics in her single "Mountains, Alone.” As the world continued to navigate the realities of COVID-19 in the subsequent years of her release, “Mountains, Alone” became a staple toe-tapping retreat from quarantines, masks, and chaos. The debut record has now accumulated over 2 million streams across all platforms, an honorable mention from American Songwriter, multiple sync placements, and was dubbed a song "on repeat" by Spotify.
A near-lifelong songwriter, Carly King is all too familiar with life’s uncertainties. Having lost her father at the age of 4 to the terrorist attacks of September 11th, King's sound embodies the depth of her inner world and lived-in experiences of loss and love, her search for purpose, and the unwavering comfort she finds in the outdoors. As she states in her hit single she’s “got a soul that could eat yours whole”
King taught herself how to play the guitar when she was 11 y/o. "My mom's boyfriend, now husband, moved into our house, he had some guitars, and I decided I had to play them, usually without him knowing - almost like a tax for him living in our house - and then with the help of YouTube and the internet, it quickly became my outlet and my way to process the world...”
To share her sound and her unreleased music with the communities that inspired it, this past summer Carly King set out on her first-ever grassroots tour. The “D.I.Y tour” consisted of 20 shows in 6 states. King traveled from the mountain west to California in her truck and camper, playing every and any place she could; 500+ person venues, on stages, at bars, on farms, in cabins, guitar shops, and coffee shops, often playing with local musicians which she would find using social media and/or word of mouth days or hours before her shows.
This strategy combined with a lot of luck, most recently, led King to a recording cabin/studio in the mountains of Hoback Wyoming, where she completed a self-produced EP of 6 original songs. Her EP “From A to B”, is an Americana-inspired project featuring road-tripping love songs, ballads, and folk tales from the road, a few of the musicians she met on her tour are also featured on it.
How a Daydream Inspired Carly King’s New Song
“Trust Me, Honey”
Sync Placements
The North Face Presents - "EarthSide"
EVO - "Bloom"
Mission Ranch - State of Montana Health & Wellness Tourism Project