The Carry Ons posed outdoors with their instruments

Bands · Songs · Performance

Music

Different bands, different eras, one lifelong compulsion to make the room move.

[ 25 years and counting ]

[ THE SHORT VERSION ]

Music is the longest-running thread in my work. It has been profession, collaboration, community language, and the place I return when thinking stops being useful. Explore solo recordings, band releases, and performance archives below.

Recordings & performances

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Quinn Walton

Solo recordings · under my own name

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The Carry Ons

Band recordings · part of the archive

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Play By Numbers

Past band · I played bass for several years

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Gypsy Drifters

Find the band online

Band website ↗Facebook ↗

Big Ol Band

Bass + vocals · performance videos

Watch on YouTube ↗

The Volume Project

Two volumes of the video archive

Volume I on YouTube ↗Volume II on YouTube ↗

At a glance

Experience25 years playing

ModeSolo + bands

ToolsVoice, guitar, bass, arrangement

ArchiveGrowing

[ FIELD NOTES ]

Proof of life.

Departures album artwork by The Carry Ons — 02Departures · The Carry Ons

The Carry Ons performing at Hole in the Wall in Austin — 03The Carry Ons at Hole in the Wall

The Carry Ons together after their final show — 04The last show · still smiling

Gypsy Drifters performing at the 2019 Hogeye Festival — 05Gypsy Drifters · Hogeye Festival, 2019

Quinn Walton singing and playing bass with Big Ol' Band — 06Bass + vocals with Big Ol’ Band

Quinn Walton singing and playing acoustic guitar at Fado Irish Pub — 07Solo at Fado Irish Pub

Quinn Walton listening in the control room at King Electric Recording Studio — 08Listening back at King Electric Recording Studio

A striped custom Fender Stratocaster built by Quinn Walton — 09A custom Strat build · because instruments can be projects too

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