Athens Banner Herald Marquee Sept.2-8, 2004
CATCHING LE FEVER-Carla Le Fever stays true to the rock n' roll dream
by Kimberly E. Mock
For Carla Le Fever it all began with a Fender amplifier. She was 16 and had ducked her way into a music club in Atlanta's Little Five Points."It had little red lights on it, and I was hypnotized, " Le Fever says. " Ever since then, I had to get on stage. I saw that light and I knew."
Le Fever threw herself into guitar lessons, tuned into the music popular of the Southside Atlanta neighborhood where she was raised and borrowed a few classiic rock records from her older sister.
Today, the Athens rocker is performing with some of the city's most proficient musicians and holds to the same purpose in recording as she did when she did at 16: to spread great music and a message to her audiences.
"My main purpose for wanting to get on the stage is, I wanted to try to tell people-and I do get accused of preaching-that it's all inside," Le Fever says. "I felt I had something I wanted to say to people because the world is so cold and a lot of people look lost...and I wanted to tell them, it's okay (to) look inside themselves, not the external world."
Le Fever does this largely through her music. On her 2003 release "The Path", the throaty-voiced singer launches into 14 rock-driven tales about life and love and a sound that evokes comparisons to Joan Jett and Foghat.
Le Fever doesn't stop with her eponymous band or even rock n' roll- she also records and performs as a member of the Athens pop-rock outfit Mutual Admiration Society (now called John Paul Jones Stole My Name) and has plans to work with a"funk with hard rock guitars" project.
It hasn't been an easy road Le Fever says, emphsizing the industry's business-before-music mantra, but the always rockin' Le Fever says she'll continue to shread her way through sets and make music her way as long as possible.
"It's a hard business, and you have to be careful," Le Fever says. "But I'm going to play music whether I make the $400 you make here and there or not. I'm just not going to worry about it."

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