Caitlin Cary, Thad Cockrell Cut Duet Album

Yep Roc artists Thad Cockrell and Caitlin Cary (known for her work with Whiskeytown and Tres Chicas) will release Begonias June 14.

The duet album was recorded in Nashville and produced by Brad Jones (Josh Rouse, Jill Sobule, Butterfly Boucher).

“We’d actually planned to make this album a long time ago,” said Cockrell. “It was sometime between Caitlin’s first EP Waltzie and her album While You Weren’t Looking. We’d write together on Sunday afternoons. It was merely a matter of fitting in with each other’s schedules.”

According to Cary, the album has one footprint in the duo’s songwriting past and another in the present.

“Half the material is older and very familiar,” she said. “The other half was written in three weeks in the studio, so half the songs are old friends, and the other half are pure spontaneous combustion.”

In support of the new album, Cary and Cockrell are planning a U.S. summer tour.

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