Carrie Akre

Carrie Akre is a musician best known for her work with Seattle underground bands Hammerbox and Goodness.

With a vocal delivery that is at once aggressive, haunting and melodic, Akre’s style of female rock-vox is comparable, yet superior, to the likes of 80s power-vixens Pat Benetar or Lita Ford, and she is one of the few women to carry that strong vocal flavour into the 1990s with the advent of grunge and the rise in popularity of alternative rock.

Since Goodness disbanded in 1998, she has contributed vocals to the project band The Rockfords (which included Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready on guitar), and released three solo albums.

Akre’s solo work is a change of direction, with a more stripped back and soulful approach broadening her style as a musician. She continues to write and perform, and occasionally reunites with Goodness for live performances.

Hammerbox – Hed (music Video)

Discography

Band	Title	Released
Hammerbox	Hammerbox	1991
Hammerbox	Numb	1993
Goodness	Goodness	1995
Various Artist	“Electricity” for School House Rock Compilation	1996
Goodness	Anthem	1998
Goodness	These Days	1999
The Rockfords	TheRockfords	2000
Carrie Akre	Home	2000
Carrie Akre	Invitation	2002
Carrie Akre	Live: Seattle, WA 15.11.02	2002
Carrie Akre	Live: Seattle, WA 09.08.02	2002
Goodness	Live Seattle 8/7/2004	2004
The Rockfords	Live Seattle, WA 12/13/03	2004
Goodness	Live Tacoma, 6/19/2004	2004
Goodness	Live Seattle, 12/03/2004	2005
Hammerbox	Live at EMP	2005
Carrie Akre	…Last the Evening	2007