Blog: Direct Current

There's much to love on Mississippi-raised, Austin-based folkie Caroline Herring 's fine new album Golden Apples of the Sun , arriving November 10. Moving away from her more alt-country, roots-twang foundations of her previous works, Apples explores the dark, gorgeously nuanced styles of the influential folk songwriters of the 60's and 70's. So how does Cyndi Lauper's oft-covered pop hit "True Colors" fit into this? Leave it to Herring and producer David Goodrich to find the haunting core of the song and express it in a way that simply and brilliantly redefines everything you might be [...]