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UPDATE: Caitlin Cary & Matt Douglas Are
The Small Ponds recevied TOP ADDS at the AMA Americana Radio Chart TWO
WEEKS IN A ROW in MARCH 2011.
The two met because it was fated. Or perhaps it was inevitable, since
they both play music in the medium size town of Raleigh, North Carolina.
But since destiny is, after all, inevitable, they spotted each other
on their respective stages, were duly impressed, and they did meet.
And because both of them make wonderful music, and because they’re
a couple of smarties, they recognized the potential for beauty in alliance.
The result is the fetching and forthright new music of The Small
Ponds.
Caitlin Cary has played the violin and written songs since she was little,
but fell into music as a life when she joined the seminal alt.country
band Whiskeytown as it was forming in Raleigh, where she was
a graduate student in writing at N.C. State. Since then, she has released
four solo recordings, formed a reknowned all-girl supergroup called
Tres Chicas, and made No Depression’s Top 20 of the Decade
list with Begonias, an album of duets with Thad Cockrell.
Matt Douglas’ training began with woodwind instruments,
and he graduated as a contemporary music performance major from NYU.
From there, he headed to Hungary on a Fulbright scholarship as a student
of folk music traditions. It was there that he first picked up a guitar
and began to write songs, which led to the formation of innovative pop
ensemble The Proclivities, who recently released their second
LP. Douglas has also lent his talents to the recordings of artists such
as Josh Ritter, Erin McKeown, Mark Erelli and Laura Cortese.
Today, The Small Ponds are eagerly poised to share their songs with
a wider audience. New, fast friends, Cary and Douglas are busy creating
delightful new music based around their combined talents and their penchants
for clear-headed, clear-spoken lyrics, precise, knowing arrangements,
wide-ranging, emotionally packed songs—all brought to life by a
tender vocal interplay that may inspire new entries to the dictionary
definition of “duet.”
Radio:
Pete Knapp, 678.986.4931, pete (at) peteknapp.com
Label: Last Chance Records, www.lastchancerecords.com
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