Neil Carswell

Neil Loyd Carswell (October 6, 1968 – January 23, 2024) was an American singer-songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the southern rock band Copperhead signed to Mercury Records in the early 1990s. With Copperhead, Carswell released their 1992 self-titled debut album that spawned four singles with the singles "Whiskey," and "The Scar" achieving exceptional success on R&R's AOR Tracks Charts in 1993. After Copperhead's disbandment in 1995, Carswell resumed his career in the early 2000s as a solo artist and released two full-length solo albums and a handful of singles, and also curated the release of a new Copperhead album Live & Lost in 2002 that featured previously unreleased songs recording during the same sessions as the band's 1992 album Copperhead and live tracks recorded during their 1992 tour.