WOMEN OF TRES CHICAS SINGING OUTSIDE THE LINES.Byline: Sandra Barrera Staff Writer Fiddler-vocalist Caitlin Cary Caitlin Cary is an alt-country musician originally from Seville, Ohio, United States. Cary began playing the violin at age six. She joined the band Whiskeytown in 1994, while in college at North Carolina State University. She currently lives in Raleigh, NC. was fresh off the breakup breakup The division of a company into separate parts. The most famous breakup to date was the 1984 division of AT&T (formerly, American Telephone & Telegraph Company). This breakup was intended to increase competition in the communications industry. of Whiskeytown - the now-seminal alt-country band led by singer-songwriter Ryan Adams David Ryan Adams (born November 5, 1974) is a prolific American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Raised by his mother and grandmother, Adams dropped out of school at age 16 and performed with several local bands before moving to Raleigh and - when she burst onto the scene at the South by Southwest music conference with Tres Chicas. The year was 2001. Armed with sweet harmonies and well-crafted songs, the roots-country trio generated enough buzz to make Cary believe that ``maybe Tres Chicas is a thing after all.'' In fact, Tres Chicas - a splinter SPLINTER - A PL/I interpreter with debugging features. [Sammet 1969, p.600]. alt-country project featuring Lynn Blakey and Tonya Lamm - only became ``a thing'' in the last year with its debut release, ``Sweetwater.'' The album that tonight brings the group to the Troubadour troubadour One of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians, often of knightly rank, that flourished from the 11th through the 13th century, chiefly in Provence and other regions of southern France, northern Spain, and northern Italy. was lauded by No Depression magazine for capturing ``the beauty that can rise out of friendship and musical respect.'' And Rolling Stone rolling stone Noun a restless or wandering person lavished praise on the trio's harmonizing, which it described as conveying ``sweet heartache and the world-weary acceptance that comes to insightful gals on the tall side of 30.'' Those harmonies may sound slightly off-kilter tonight, since Lamm is back in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. with her toddler. But drummer Skillet Gilmore - yes, he's another Whiskeytowner - is singing Lamm's parts, and multi-instrumentalist Sara Bell ``is making it so our name isn't a lie,'' Cary says from New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). , where the band was rebounding from engine problems experienced earlier in the day. Despite the unexpected setback, Cary was in good spirits Adv. 1. in good spirits - without losing equilibrium; "she took all his criticism in stride" in stride as she talked about the album and what it's like to play in her first band since Whiskeytown. Tres Chicas always intended to release ``Sweetwater'' immediately after its South by Southwest appearance. But each woman had her own commitments. Lamm had a baby on the way, and both Cary and Blakey were at work on their respective albums. Cary put out two solo albums - 2002's ``While You Weren't Looking'' and 2003's ``I'm Staying Out'' - in the three years before ``Sweetwater.'' ``I had to do my solo thing, and that was very good for me and will be again, I know,'' Cary says. ``But now as an older person with a lot of experience and knowing more about what I want, it's great to be in a band again. We're all such great friends ... and the harmonies are fun, fun, fun, fun.'' Tres Chicas is having so much fun, in fact, that the group plans to cut another album this spring. ``We didn't know we would want to get to it this soon, but we do,'' Cary says, crediting having spent more time together as a band as the motivator. ``Just doing this and going on the road together ... we're finding that it is really fun, and we love each other,'' Cary says. ``But I don't think it'll ever become full-time because I think everybody has other goals as well. We're want-it-all girls, I guess.'' Sandra Barrera, (818) 713-3728 sandra.barrera(at)dailynews.com!dtpost TRES CHICAS, OPENING FOR TIFT MERRIT Where: Troubadour, 9081 Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. Blvd., Hollywood. When: 8 tonight. Tickets: $15. (213) 480-3232. www.ticketmaster.com. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Tonya Lamm, left, Caitlin Cary and Lynn Blakey enjoy harmonizing together so much that they're already planning to record another album as Tres Chicas. |
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