Caroline Herring: News

July 14, 2008	SOUTHERN REGISTER REVIEW
July 14, 2008	There is a wonderful review of Lantana in the Spring 2008 issue of the Southern Register, a publication by The Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Dr. Charles Wilson, former director of the center as well as a former professor if Caroline's, wrote the review. Check it out at http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/register/ten.htm

July 05, 2008	New Review by the Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
July 05, 2008	“What distinguishes Herring's blend of country, a touch of bluegrass and the best of the Austin storytellers is the lack of the heavy hand, replaced here by an empathetic mind. For the full review, go to: http://www.smh.com.au/news/music/music-to-think-and-drink-to/2008/07/04/1214951027904.html

June 11, 2008	Entire Brussels show on You Tube
June 11, 2008	Caroline's entire set on June 6th at Toogenblik in Brussels, Belgium is posted on You Tube! You can watch each and every song separately - just type in Caroline's name to find the installments. Also be sure to check out Cara Luft and Hugh McMillan, some marvelous musicians who opened the show that evening. www.youtube.com

May 19, 2008	"TUNED IN" Artist of the Week - Philadelphia PA
May 19, 2008	Caroline is this week's "Tuned In" Artist on Philadelphia, PA's ABC affiliate, channel 6. Watch an interview and see Caroline perform two songs live at World Cafe Live. http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/entertainment&id=6149579

May 18, 2008	WNRN INTERVIEW Charlottesville, VA
May 18, 2008	Anne Williams interviews Caroline Herring at WNRN in Charlottesville, Virginia on April 17, 2008 before her show at Gravity Lounge. Caroline performs Stone Cold World, Paper Gown and Song For Fay live in the studio. Great interview! Hear it on YouTube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=N_C-IBNUUng or go to the station's website at http://wnrn.org/

May 05, 2008	NEW REVIEWS SECTION
May 05, 2008	Check out all the amazing reviews for Lantana in the new, easier-to-read format of the Press Kit section. We are updating this section every week, so keep checking! The full articles will be added shortly.

April 28, 2008	PASTE Magazine Review
April 28, 2008	Another great review for Lantana! Check out the June issue of PASTE Magazine, or read it right here! <> Lantana [Signature Sounds] <> Indies 1, Nashville 0 <> In the nightmare version of Caroline Herring’s story, she moves to Nashville, signs a big publishing deal and is stuck dumbing down her razor-sharp songwriting for Music Row pod people like Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift. Fortunately, Nashville hasn’t yet sunk its claws into Herring’s immensely empathetic, unprepossessing charm. Exhibit A: “Paper Gown” (about convicted child-murderer Susan Smith) has to be the best example of a songwriter getting inside the head of an unsympathetic real-life protagonist since Steve Earle’s “John Walker’s Blues.” And rather than an immaculately auto-tuned robo-singer, Herring effortlessly plumbs the emotional depths of her songs with her evocative alto. Her delivery, along with Rich Brotherton’s pitch-perfect production, makes this song cycle resonant in more ways than a simple, rootsy singer/songwriter album ought to. Lantana comes on the heels of a five-year break Herring took to get married and start a family, and her music is all the richer for it. Reid Davis

April 10, 2008	Folk Alley Feature
April 10, 2008	New members of Folk Alley receive a free MP3 download from Caroline's LANTANA. What a great reason to join! Go to www.folkalley.com for more information.

April 08, 2008	Great Reviews Keep Rollin' In!
April 08, 2008	Lantana continues to receive wonderful reviews. Here is the newest from Rob Weir of the Valley Advocate in Northampton, MA, April 3: Herring's latest is billed as songs from the "Gothic South," and with big, open guitar and equally big vibrato-laden alto, Herring sings for grown-ups who know that an honest take on life isn't always pretty. Instead of saccharine images of carefree days on daddy's knee, Herring sings of "A childhood worth forgetting/ her twenties damn depresing," and journeys in which "china dolls and worlds collide." Like the late Dave Carter, she finds grace in the plebeian, hypocrisy in the make-nice. "Paper Gown," her retelling of the Susan Smith case, is more tragic than sordid - all in keeping with her no-easy-answers worldview. Toss in memorable melodic hooks and some long overdue country feminism, and Lantana is a headturning effort.

March 13, 2008	AMAZING Austin Chronicle Review of Lantana, SXSW Issue
March 13, 2008	by Margaret Moser: If there were no other songs on Lantana, Caroline Herring's murder ballad "Paper Gown" would still be the tour de force befitting her 2002 win as the Austin Music Awards' Best New Artist. Compositions "Song for Fay," "States of Grace," and "Lay My Burden Down" resonate with Herring's newfound strength, yet it's the devastating simplicity of "Paper Gown" that makes the Rich Brotherton-produced Lantana a career-defining work. "Paper Gown" weaves the tale of Susan Smith, the small-town girl who drowned her two sons in 1994 when her lover rejected her "ready-made family." Herring's brilliance is in recanting the story not as horrific matricide but as the desperate act of a love-blind girl, willing in heart and soul to sacrifice her own flesh and blood. Crafted with timeless elegance and graceful confidence, Caroline Herring's Lantana is the best modern Southern Gothic since Lucinda Williams' Sweet Old World. (Saturday, March 15, St. David's Church, 12mid.)