Caitlin Cary

Caitlin Cary ( born October 28, 1968 in Seville, Ohio, USA) is an American musician (violin, vocals) and songwriter from Raleigh, North Carolina.

Life

Caitlin Cary comes from a musical family and has six older brothers. Her father worked in his spare time as an instrument builder. Cary began at the age of six years with the play of the violin, as well as harpsichord, which had gerfertigt her father. Later she earned a master's degree in creative writing at North Carolina State University. Doer she met Ryan Adams know and founded with him in 1994, the band Whiskeytown, the alternative country played. In changing instrumentation, the band existed until 1999.

After the dissolution of the band, she began a solo career. In 2000 they released their debut EP Waltzie. Together with Mike Dalty with which they already received collaborated with Whiskeytown and with the support of Ryan Adams, the EP was released on Yep Roc from Chapel Hill. Musically, Cary remained the alternative country genre faithful.

After she had been working for two years on it, published in 2002 their debut album While You Were not Looking, which is more designed for the folk sector. I'm Staying Out of the successor will be completed in just three months. appears in 2003 and shows the songwriter grown and self-confident.

They played together with Tonya Lamm ( Hazeldine ) and Lynn Blakey ( Glory Fountain ) as Très Chicas Album Seawater one. In 2005 she participates in Thad Cockrells album Begonias. This collaboration brought the two in 2006, a nomination for Best Duo or best group at the Americana Music Honors & Awards of the Americana Music Association a. As a guest musician, she is involved in albums by Alejandro Escovedo, Kenny Roby and Greg Hawks & the Tremblers.

Caitlin Cary is married to musician Eric " Skillet " Gilmore, who had also previously played in Whiskeytown.

Reception

The newspaper The Washington Post compared the album of Cary and Cockrell as "a worthy successor to the duets of Johnny Cash and June Carter, George Jones and Tammy Wynette, and of Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton ."

Mary Chapin Carpenter wrote on Cary's website that it was from the album While You Were not Looking so excited that she received 20 copies of it to give them away to friends.

Discography

With Whiskeytown

Solo

• Waltzie (EP, 2000)
• While You Were not Looking (2002)
• I'm Staying Out (2003)

Tres Chicas as

• Sweetwater (2004)

Thad Cockrell with

• Begonias (2005)