Canadian Music Awards

Toronto, ON – Award-winning Canadian singer/songwriter and producer Carolyn Dawn Johnson has been nominated for Country Album of the Year at the 2011 JUNO Awards.  The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) made the announcements today at a press conference held at The Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto.

Winners will be declared at the JUNO Gala Dinner and Awards on March 26 and the 2011 JUNO AWARDS will be broadcast live in Toronto from the Air Canada Centre on March 27. 

A delighted Johnson states, “I am ecstatic that my album Love Rules is being recognized because I love, love, love this music.  I am thankful that CARAS & the community of my peers chose to nominate it because it was truly the hardest project I’ve ever worked on, but just might be the one I’m most proud of.  Thank-you sooooo much.”  Read the rest of this entry »

St. Albert Gazette

By Anna Borowiecki | St. Albert Gazette

Yowsers, can that girl belt it out.

Even before Carolyn Dawn Johnson had bounded onto the Arden stage this past Friday night, the sold-out house was cheering her on.

She wasn’t just another singer on a road stop flogging a new album. The Nashville-based Westlock transplant was family.

Johnson had returned home to the “old stomping grounds,” and an applause-heavy red carpet was laid out for Johnson and her four sidemen — Ricky Free (drums), Cory Ishee (guitar), Nolan Werner (bass) and Derek Wells (mandolin).

Although the country singer had temporarily hung up her spurs for four years, she still knew how to work the country crowd, delivering a lyrical catalogue that focused on love, family and domesticity. Read the rest of this entry »

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Alanna Conaway – The Boot
Carolyn Dawn Johnson has found two new loves to compete with her first love, music. The Canadian-born songbird has become a mother twice since releasing her last album, 2008′s ‘Love and Negotiation.’ But somehow in between diaper duty and preparing for the birth of her second child, she found time to pour her heart and soul into new music for her fourth studio album, ‘Love Rules,’ released this month.

“Keeping up with being a writer and making a record and trying to be the best mom I could was tiring,” she tells The Boot. “It was pretty tough, but when I got close to the end of [making this album] and all of the songs and the products were coming back all done, I got excited and emotional about it again.”
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New Album

Canadian Country Music Award winner Carolyn Dawn Johnson is set to release her fourth studio album, Love Rules (Dancing Lily / Road Angel Entertainment / Universal Music Canada) on August 10th 2010. The album will be the country darling’s first release in four years and no doubt fans will be thrilled to hear her latest offering.

The lead single, Let Me Introduce Myself, is Top 10 on Canadian country radio and is currently the highest ranked country song in Canada at number 12 on the BDS Canadian Top 50. The song stays true to Johnson’s signature sound, blending upbeat and soaring harmonies with lyrics that evoke real-life experiences. Read the rest of this entry »

Let Me Introduce Myself

Carolyn Dawn Johnson’s New single “Let Me Introduce Myself” hit radio this week in Canada and became the most added song in the country. Johnson is gearing up with a summer album release, and looking forward to touring this fall.

In the mean time Carolyn is releasing video clips of the making of the album as well as keeping in touch with her fans. You can find updated journal entries, something she has been doing since the very beginning of her career as well as Twitter and Facebook updates. Look for more information coming soon.