Throughout the years​,​ Caroline ​Cotter ​has found a true home on the road and on diverse musical stages internationally, with audiences captivated by her vulnerable vocal quality which belies her insightful and award-winning songwriting.

Caroline’s third national release, Gently as I Go​​ takes listeners around the world, back home, and deep into the human heart. Since her debut album, Dreaming as I Do​,​ which was the ​number five CD of the Month on the FAI Folk DJ Charts in 2015, Caroline has performed over 1000 shows in 45 states and 14 countries, with a follow​-​up release in 2018, Home on ​the River​.​

Gently as I Go​ will be released on August​ 18th, 2023​, and veritably pulls the listener in. Exploring travel and connection, empowerment and creative practice, love, life and death, nostalgia and growing up, loss and gratitude, it’s got all emotional bases covered here with each of the 11 original songs.

1. Coming Your Way
2. Don’t Wait
3. The Year of the Wrecking Ball
4. The Call
5. Gone Away
6. Remind Me of You
7. Antonia
8. Gently As A Go
9. Enough
10. Do You Love Me
11. Morning Mantra

This amazingly impassioned, cathartic expression of ones life experience, opens on the beautifully sculpted Coming Your Way (“Find me somewhere out on the road / Take me into your heart and into your home”), where Cotter reminds us that home can be anywhere, if you’ve found someone who shares your heart, and then we get Don’t Wait, the first single from the album, in which she encourages listeners to seize the day, the heartfelt The Year of the Wrecking Ball, and then comes the impassioned The Call and the cymbal-led, profound, veritably Celtic in its ambiance, Gone Away.

On an album where the singer-songwriter ended up having to wait three years to release it, due to its completion in March of 2020, just before the world shut down, we are next brought the dulcet, yearning love song Remind Me of You and the absorbing Antonia and they are in turn backed by Gently As I Go (“I’ve got roots that go deep and grow deeper the more I leave my home”), Cotter sings in the charismatic title cut, then comes the charming Enough, the album rounding out on the upbeat, free flowingly quirky Do You Love Me (“Find a penny, pick it up, maybe it’s beginners luck; throw spaghetti at the wall, if it’s not ready, it’ll fall”), coming to a close on the warmly harmonized, inner glow of Morning Mantra (which is itself a reminder to keep going in a world that often feels dark, sad, and full of troubles).

“Songwriting for me is a cathartic expression of my life experience. It’s creative expression that just completely shifts me and gets out the ickiness,” shares Cotter, recounting a recent moment when sitting down and writing a song wiped away the anxious feeling she had been dealing with all day. “Seeing new things and connecting with people helps also, because I can get so deep into my own head, and the second I start a conversation with somebody else, it’s not about me anymore.”

And it’s a win-win. “It’s inevitable that after a show, somebody will come and share their experience with me,” Cotter says, “so it’s got the right effect, you know? It helps us all feel not alone.”

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