Caroline Herring
Website:
http://www.carolineherring.com
Discography:
2009 - Silver Apples of the Moon - EP
2009 - Golden Apples of the Sun
2008 - Lantana
2003 - Wellspring
2001 - Twilight
| Snow showers are just one unfamiliar element Herring introduced to her creative process on her new album Golden Apples of the Sun on Signature Sounds. Daringly intimate and unguarded, the making of Golden Apples of the Sun took the Mississippi native far from her comfort zone, to striking effect. Long associated with the Austin, Texas music scene from which she sprang nearly ten years ago, Herring chose to record on unfamiliar turf – the Signature Sounds Studio in Pomfret, Connecticut – with only producer David Goodrich providing tasteful, understated accompaniment to her own delicate, intricate guitar. “On this record,” she observes, “I did none of the things that I’ve become comfortable with. I made it in a totally different part of the country, with a different kind of producer, and deliberately made it sparser. Still, I think it sounds like me.”
From her 2001 debut Twilight and its immediate successor Wellspring (2003) to the widely acclaimed Lantana (2008), Herring’s music has been hailed for combining traditional sounds with striking, original observations into modern life and love. The Austin Chronicle proclaimed Lantana to be “the best modern Southern Gothic album since Lucinda Williams’ Sweet Old World.” On Golden Apples of the Sun, Herring stakes out new terrain, exchanging the country-influenced sound of her previous albums for a darker, hauntingly personal sound inspired by the iconic female folk singers and songwriters of the 1960s and 70s. “There’s no getting rid of my accent,” she says slyly, “but other than that, this is not a twangy record. It’s not roots-based.” The new record suggests that Herring has been as much influenced by classic songstresses such as Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins as by her native Southland.
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