Night Owl Envies the Mourning Dove
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Caitlin Canty’s guitar seems to have been around forever – it’s a battle-scarred Recording King Jumbo from 1939 – and her songs are the same way. Her melodies draw from the blues and folk tradition but in startlingly fresh ways and with lyrics as vivid and precise as Raymond Carver short stories. “They seem to exist without having been forced into existence,” says guitarist Rich Hinman, her frequent collaborator. Canty delivers them in a voice that’s clear, smart, ardent, sometimes aching yet always restrained, so that every quiver, burr and microtonal bend cuts deep.
