"Four
Shades of Country"
Caitlin Hanford has a voice with a pure, Appalachian quality,
perfectly
suited to the high, lonesome sound of traditional country
and bluegrass. She hails from Bainbridge Island, Washington.
She grew up in a house filled with music, from The Weavers
to Dave Brubeck to Flatt and Scruggs. At age eight her father
showed her how to play chords on a vintage jumbo Kay guitar,
and she never looked back.
In 1978 Caitlin immigrated
to Canada after graduating from McGill University and meeting her husband, Chris
Whiteley. Together Chris and Caitlin carved a path in the Canadian country music
scene in the 1980s with several Juno nominations and many charted singles of original
country songs. She has also had many songs published in Nashville, her most recent,
a cut on the Rounder recording "A Little Girl, A Big Four-Lane" by Alecia
Nugent, produced by Carl Jackson. Caitlin currently enjoys a rich musical
life with her solo career, Quartette, and the roots-based trio The Marigolds,
with Suzie Vinnick and Gwen Swick.
"A solo debut doesn't get much better than Caitlin
Hanford's new album. The album is bursting with confidence, as Hanford's cool,
crystal-clear soprano moves effortlessly between bluegrass and country, with hints
of blues, jazz and Cajun music. With BLUER SKIES, Hanford has found exactly where
she belongs: front and centre stage."
- Nicholas Jennings, Maclean's
Magazine "Four shades of country are her cornerstones,
but Hanford- a highly regarded veteran of Ontario's acoustic and bluegrass scenes
- routinely veers beyond the edges of the idiom to showcase her gentle, lonesome
blues, torch ballads and even classic jazz. Having waited 20 years to make a solo
disc, Hanford pulls it all together with a wistful, intuitive voice that wrings
the most from her lyrics."
- Mitch Potter, The Toronto Star "Caitlin
Hanford's talents have finally been given centre stage on BLUER SKIES her first
solo album. Hanford's high lonesome vocal styling is supported here by some marvelous
acoustic arrangements, highlighted by special guest appearances on harmony vocals
by Nashville's Carl Jackson, and Stuart Duncan's fiddle and mandolin work."
- Larry Delaney, Country Music News
"(Caitlin's voice
is) sweet, edged with pain.....a singer who deserves to be noticed.....as near
to country perfection as anyone can get, inside or outside Nashville.
-
Greg Quill, Toronto Star "The highlight of the
set was arguably Hanford's 'Soul To The Bone', a heartfelt and moving tribute
to late country star, Keith Whitley, an artist who lived his songs too well. "
- The Austin American Statesman |
| "BLUER SKIES"
is Caitlin Hanford's first solo album. It establishes the Quartette member as
an artist with a restless and wide-ranging talent. In one moment she can turn
the blues into a country ballad, in the next moment spice a bluegrass rocker with
a subversive Cajun twist. As if that's not enough, she then stands the whole album
on its head with some classic jazz. That it all hangs together so beautifully
is a testament to Hanford's break-your-heart voice, to John Sheard's stellar production
and to the musical talent she has assembled, including the driving fiddle and
lonesome tenor of her Nashville guests, Stuart Duncan and Carl Jackson."
- Stuart Mclean, CBC Radio | Chronological
Discography List |
CDs & Albums |
Produced by | THE
MARIGOLDS | |
-
BLUER
SKIES - CAITLIN HANFORD (1997) |
- Produced by John Sheard
- Distributed
by
- OUTSIDE MUSIC
- 233 Carlaw Ave,
Unit B5
Toronto ON M4M 2S1 - &
-
Available from:
- HYC RECORDS - c/o Quartette
-
35 Fraserwood Ave,
#1
Toronto Ontario, CANADA
M6B 2N6 |
- CHRIS WHITELEY AND
CAITLIN HANFORD
| -
Produced by Bill Garrett
1984 -HYC RECORDS - -
- HYC RECORDS - c/o Quartette
- 35
Fraserwood Ave, #1
Toronto Ontario, CANADA
M6B 2N6 |
- LOVIN' IN ADVANCE -
(1981)
| -
Produced by Ken Whitely
- 1981 -Troubadour Records
-
Distributed by A&M
- 1075 Cambie Street
-
Vancouver, B.C. V6B 5L7
| |
