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Wellspring by Caroline Herring
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fave it Modern Folk | Bluegrass
11 tracks | 41 minutes
Released Nov 2003
on Blue Corn Music
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Editorial review
Simultaneously gruff and intimate, Caroline Herring's second album, Wellspring, offers 11 tracks of Southwestern acoustic folk-based country with appropriate focus on her obvious songwriting talent and her equally powerful voice. Like her soulful country contemporaries (Kim Richey, Shelby Lynne, Patty Griffin), Herring's breathy sensuality punctuates her themes of love, loss, and heartache, and her understated vocals, while never over-reaching, often swell and break under the strain of the song's own emotion. The leadoff track, "Trace," sets the pace for the entire record, and Kelly Willis unobtrusively lends her vocal talents to the album's highlight, "Jewels." The inclusion of the parlor blues number "Texas Two Step" is a little incongruous amid the rest of the straight-ahead folk songs, but ultimately proves the versatility that Herring is capable of. ~ Zac Johnson, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Caroline Herring's music can best be described as "Southern". Blending the sounds of country, folk and bluegrass with the unmistakable spiritual influence of the blues and gospel, Caroline's two Blue Corn albums reflect her Mississippi upbringing and her subsequent academic journey into Southern culture. More importantly, they showcase an extraordinary singer/songwriter whose poetic lyrics are matched by her melodic gifts and the sort of vocal talent that comes along all too infrequently.
"Twilight", Caroline's debut Blue Corn release, garnered unanimous praise upon its release in 2001, especially in her adopted home of Austin, Texas where Caroline was named "Best New Artist" at the 2002 Austin Music Awards. "Twilight" is an amazing debut album, showcasing an artist who appears to emerge from nowhere as a fully developed talent. This was not the case of course, as Caroline had been perfecting her sound for several years prior to that in Austin and Oxford, Mississippi.
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