Caroline Spence - True North (Deluxe) [Official Digital Download]

January 20, 2023 – Today, singer-songwriter Caroline Spence announces a deluxe edition of her acclaimed 2022 album True North, which is slated for release on June 16. True North (Deluxe) features six bonus tracks including four alternate versions of songs that appear on the album as well as two brand new recordings.

Spence spent much of the past year on the road, both as a headliner and as support for artists including American Aquarium, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Madi Diaz, Emmylou Harris, John Moreland, and David Ramirez. She will announce live appearances for 2023 in the coming weeks.

“Releasing this new version of ‘Mary Oliver’ at the beginning of the new year feels right because it was my resolution or mission statement for this album and the next season of my career,” notes Spence. She reflects, “To be ‘a heart on a sleeve,’ as I sing in the song, is as good a new year’s resolution as any. This song is a plea for gentleness and self-acceptance; it’s a case for humility and vulnerability. Every time I sing this song I think ‘yes, I still feel that way. I still want those things’ — it feels like a code of ethics that I recommit to every time I stand on the stage and sing it.

This past year, I’ve had to play solo as an opening act a lot and singing this song with just a voice and guitar, I was reminded each night about how vulnerable this song really is. Without the full production, the song reads more as an intimate excavation of deep desires than a musical exaltation of publicized principles. On the album, I wanted it to feel massive and expansive sonically, for the message to reach the treetops. But in this acoustic version, which is much closer to how I first wrote it and how I’ve been performing it when solo, we brought it back down to the earth.”

TRACKLIST

1. Caroline Spence - Mary Oliver
2. Caroline Spence - The Gift
3. Caroline Spence - Clean Getaway
4. Caroline Spence - Blue Sky Rain
5. Caroline Spence - Scale These Walls
6. Caroline Spence - Walk The Walk
7. Caroline Spence - I Know You Know Me
8. Caroline Spence - Icarus
9. Caroline Spence - True North
10. Caroline Spence - The Next Good Time
11. Caroline Spence - I Forget The Rest
12. Caroline Spence - There’s Always Room
13. Caroline Spence - Mary Oliver (Acoustic)
14. Caroline Spence - There's Always Room (Alternate Version)
15. Caroline Spence - The Gift (Alternate Version)
16. Caroline Spence - The Next Good Time
17. Caroline Spence - Lighthouse
18. Caroline Spence - I Know You Know Me (Piano Version)



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