Musical Career
After the formation of Beat Circus, Carpenter began composing a "Weird American Gothic" trilogy of albums, starting with Dreamland, released on the Cuneiform label in 2008, a song cycle loosely based on the Coney Island theme park of the same name. Boy From Black Mountain followed in 2009 with Southern folk songs inspired by his son and his father's life growing up as a farmer in the Florida Panhandle. The album won the Independent Music Award that year for Best Alt/Country Album.
In 2006 Carpenter was hired as the musical director for a run of vaudeville shows at the Regent Theatre in Arlington, Massachusetts, then celebrating its 90th anniversary. He formed a 9-piece band called the Ghost Train Orchestra to perform the event and in 2011 released an album of rearranged music from obscure late 1920s Chicago and Harlem bands called Hothouse Stomp on Accurate Records.
In 2011 Carpenter announced the formation of a new band called Brian Carpenter & The Confessions, which debuted in January 2011 in Biddeford, Maine.
In 2012 Carpenter began collaborating with the Berkeley Repertory Theater on a musical loosely based on Herbert Asbury's Gold Rush saga The Barbary Coast.
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