Caroline Herring
| Caroline Herring | |
|---|---|
| Born | Canton, Mississippi |
| Origin | Austin, Texas |
| Genres | folk and country |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Labels | Signature Sounds, Blue Corn Music |
| Website | www.carolineherring.com |
Caroline Herring is an American folk and country singer, songwriter and musician. Born in Canton, Mississippi, Herring now lives in Decatur with her husband and two children. She started singing professionally when she was a graduate student at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. While there she co-founded Thacker Mountain Radio, a literary and musical hour broadcast from Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, and still syndicated on Mississippi Public Radio. Herring began her solo career when she moved to Austin, Texas, in 1999. She has released six commercial albums, starting with her 2001 debut Twilight, which earned her 2001-2002 Best New Artist award at the SXSW Austin Music Awards. In 2012 Texas Music magazine named Twilight in its Top 50 Essential Texas Albums list. Her 2003 album Wellspring includes the song "Mistress," which the Atlanta Journal-Constitution listed as one of the Top 100 Songs About the South. Texas Music magazine included "Mistress" in its 2012 listing of the Top 50 Classic Texas Songs in recorded history.
National Public Radio (NPR) named Herring’s 2008 Lantana, on Signature Sounds Recordings, as one of the Top Ten Best Folk Albums of 2008. In 2009, Herring released Golden Apples of the Sun, also on Signature Sounds, which the Boston Globe named as one of the Top 10 Best Folk Albums of 2009. In 2011, Herring was the only American chosen to participate in The Cecil Sharp Project, an eight-artist collaboration celebrating the life and work of English folk song collector Cecil Sharp. The group released a live CD, which received enthusiastic reviews and was among the Top 10 Best Albums of 2011 according to the UK music magazine Songlines. In 2011, Herring also released her first children’s album, The Little House Songs, based on the 1941 Caldecott-winning book The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton. For this album, Herring received the 2012 Coleen Salley Storytelling Award at the Fay Kaigler Children’s Book Festival at the University of Southern Mississippi.
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