My first connection with Caroline Herring was spending several summers together at Camp DeSoto. I was a counselor, she a camper but I remember her sweet, shy smile and long blond hair. Several years later, I was visiting DeSoto and she was there, on staff, and was in charge of the singing!
I don’t recall hearing her sing alone until years later when she was in Oxford and doing Thacker Mountain Radio. She was still shy and sweet but she was developing a sense of strength and poise that comes with genuine talent. Her winsomeness was tempered with a fierce determination to be heard and people have been listening ever since. Caroline Herring has grown into being an acclaimed artist; an incredibly gifted songwriter and a southern voice that has a way of slipping into one’s mind and never leaving! To see her now, I am so proud and quite amazed at her progression. She is a treasure whose time has come. Caroline has worked to be where she is and I, for one, am thrilled to know an artist of her caliber–pure gold inside and out.
I will use her own words to convey my feelings:
From “Fair and Tender Ladies”:
You write about a place so dear
In all its good and evil
A loving cup, an aching scar
You need no thread and needle
To sew your name into your clothes
Or hem a ragged line
All muscular and luminous
Oh, heroine of mine
-Norma
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