Karl Stoll
Roots Rock & Blues Guitarist - Songwriter
Karl Stoll is a an award winning songwriter, singer, guitarist and band leader from Northern Virginia. He is best known for leading the roots rock & blues band The Danger Zone. The band has been playing in the Washington DC area for more than 20 years.
Karl’s goal for 2024 is to release a new single every month until all the songs are album ready. He has already released two albums with The Danger Zone: Take a Ride (2011) and The Workhouse (2022). Both albums were well received and earned some recognition.
You can catch Karl performing with The Danger Zone, with his vintage rock & roll group The Power Trio or as a solo acoustic singer/songwriter.
The Workhouse is a strong set of blues, blues rock, and roots originals that will satisfy fans of those genres.
Stoll is a fine songwriter and an engaging guitarist and vocalist. - Graham Clarke - Blues Bytes
"Karl Stoll and the Danger Zone have transcended the loneliness and disease of lockdown to produce an energetic, celebratory, and immensely danceable trajectory through musical genre, from blues to soul to distinctive decades of rock and roll. The Workhouse proposes a counter narrative to pandemic fatigue and pervasive uncertainty, and, in so doing, tells an essential story, in which the human spirit finds agency over the human condition." - Leanne Tankel, Americana Highways
They’re a boisterous mixture of electric blues rock, ensemble blues, roots and Americana. A few slow-dance numbers appear (“Open Your Arms,” “Sometimes,” and “Fantasy Girl”), but for the most part, they’re fast and furious. - Blues Blast Magazine
"Karl Stoll and the Danger Zone can make it happen. They know how to deliver." - Steven Birt, Sound Waves Magazine
"Karl Stoll is also one of those inconspicuous and somewhat lesser-known artists, who demands the necessary attention .."
"Undoubtedly my album of the week, my discovery of the month!…” - Eric Schuurmans, Rootstime (Belgium)
"A pure roots rock party on a platter" - Chris Specter, Midwest Record
"You hit the ground running with that New Orleans track." - Ken Avis, Antidote, WERA-FM (Arlington, VA)