• 2024 Ameripolitan Award Winner, Western Swing Group

  • 2024 California Music Video Award Winners ‘West of West and East of Tokio (for James Hand) - click here to watch the video.

  • 2024 Academy of Western Artists Award Winner, Western Swing Album of The Year (On The Draw)

  • 2023 Ameripolitan Award Nominee for Western Swing Female

  • 2021 Academy of Western Artists Award Winner, Western Swing Female Vocalist

  • 2020 NEXTie Band of the Year

  • 2019 Inductees, Sacramento Western Swing Hall of Fame

  • 2018 Ameripolitan Award Winner, Western Swing Group

“Listening to The Carolyn Sills Combo, you might do a double-take: Is this newly fashioned country music, or a long-lost 1950s or '60s band coming out of the ether? The Combo is indeed that good.” - Vintage Guitar Magazine, 2024.

Hailing from Santa Cruz, CA, Carolyn Sills' Combo was named the 2024 Ameripolitan Award Winner for Western Swing Group in Austin, TX. Their unique take on American roots music is driven forward by guitar twang, swooning steel and her sharp songwriting. She's released four albums, one doughnut and countless videos to date, all brimming with dueling guitar & non-pedal steel, fun vocal harmonies and witty lyrics.

"I love writing story-driven snapshots where every word counts," says Sills, a Sacramento Western Swing Hall of Fame inductee who serves as the lead singer, bass player and songwriter. After paying tribute to country legend Marty Robbins with her 2019 release, Return to El Paso — a critically-acclaimed concept album that earned Sills the title of "Western Swing Female of the Year" from the Academy of Western Artists — she widened her focus with 2023’s On The Draw. "We're always growing and evolving." adds Sills, "We've received some wonderful award recognition for western swing music, but our sound is bigger than that."

Carolyn Sills is a classic American roots musician for the modern world, nodding to her old-school favorites one minute and exploring new ground the next. She also performs with guitarist (and husband) Gerard Egan in the old-school country & western project Poi Rogers. She’s doing her part to keep vintage American roots music styles alive and relevant in a modern world.