Caroline Herring: Golden Apples of the Sun | CD review

(Continental Song City/ Signature Sounds)Caroline Herring is a singer-songwriter from Mississippi who has set out to revive American 1960s acoustic folk styles as the setting for her bold range of songs. She sounds like a classic early folkie, a girl with an impressive finger-picking guitar (and banjo) style and a gently mournful, acrobatic voice, who has clearly been influenced by Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins. The production is sparse and dominated by her playing, and the songs ...

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