Contemporary folk singer/songwriter Caroline Herring was raised in a musical family in Canton, MS. Her father played guitar and her mother played piano. Naturally, her parents had her take piano lessons, but she eventually became more interested in guitar and the chance to sing her own songs. She didn't begin writing her own songs until she was a graduate student in American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, where she took her inspiration easily enough from a city full of great songwriters. In college at Ole Miss, in Oxford, MS, where she eventually earned her Master's Degree in Southern Studies, she began performing every week with the Sincere Ramblers for Thacker Mountain Ra... ... More