CAITLIN CARY READIES NEW ALBUM, IM STAYING OUT, ON YEP ROC SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 22 STREET DATE

Second Long Player from Whiskeytown Alumnus, Produced by Chris Stamey, Features Guests Mary Chapin Carpenter, Greg Humphreys (Hobex), Audley Freed (Black Crowes), Mitch Easter, Thad Cockrell and Jane Scarpantoni

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January 27, 2003

CAITLIN CARY READIES NEW ALBUM, IM STAYING OUT, ON YEP ROC SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 22 STREET DATE

Second Long Player from Whiskeytown Alumnus, Produced by Chris Stamey,
Features Guests Mary Chapin Carpenter, Greg Humphreys (Hobex),
Audley Freed (Black Crowes), Mitch Easter, Thad Cockrell and Jane Scarpantoni

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Caitlin Cary is putting the finishing touches on her second full-length album, titled Im Staying Out. The album follows last years acclaimed
While You Werent Looking, called "the best recording yet to surface from the remnants of Whiskeytown" by No Depression magazine. Chris Stamey once again
produced. Street date is set for April 22.

In crafting the album, Cary surrounded herself with longtime accompanists Jen Gunderman (piano, organ, accordion and vocals), Dave Bartholomew (acoustic and
electric guitars, vocals), Brian Dennis (guitar) and Jon Wurster (drums and percussion.) Joining them for the record on bass, guitar and harmonies this time out was
special guest Don Dixon (solo recording artist and producer whose credits include R.E.M., Marshall Crenshaw, the Smithereens and Dixons wife, Marti Jones.)

In addition, several artists made cameo appearances, including vocal harmonies by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Greg Humphreys (Hobex, Dillon Fence) and Thad
Cockrell, guitar from Audley Freed (Black Crowes) and Mitch Easter (Lets Active, producer of R.E.M.), and cello by Jane Scarpantoni (R.E.M., Beastie Boys and
Nirvana.) Lee Smith (author of numerous novels, essays and short story collections, most recently the bestseller The Last Girls and numerous novels, essays and
short story collections) contributed spoken word. John Plymale (Meat Puppets, Eyes Adrift, Superchunk, Squirrel Nut Zippers) engineered and did the lions share
of the mixing.

Cary is a founding member of Whiskeytown, in which she sang, wrote and played violin alongside bandmate Ryan Adams.

Reflecting on the making of the new album, Cary offers these thoughts: "We made what I believe is a big, colorful record. Theres a purple song and for sure a red
song, and yellow, and several shades of green. So I guess its safe to say theres a lot of variety. There are complex stories in a lot of the songs, but not the sort that
bog things down. I think a lot of energy runs throughout, so that even the sad or the poignant songs dont dwell in melancholy, and the songs with ‘plots will still
be good listening after the storys been digested."

A key progression between Im Staying Out and its predecessor is that the new album benefits from the bands road miles of the past year. "I think you can hear a
band on this record," she says. "It was made by the touring group and theres give and take that comes from us knowing and reacting to one another, which allows
each instrument to take its proper place and really shine. From the earliest point of listening to basic tracks, we knew we had a solid record, because there was a
fullness to the music that made overdubbing seem like a luxury instead of a necessity. We certainly had fun adding shimmer and unique musical characters with
harmonies, horns, strings and clarinet -- but they feel like seasoning more than stock."

Among the songs on Im Staying Out is "Empty Rooms," which emerged from Caitlins vision of what it might be like to have ones life really fall apart. "Its not
about breaking down, but about not being able to feel enough," she says. "It yielded a sort of driving, angry song, and that surprised me a little. I hadnt realized that
the character would insist on sounding so forceful and direct." Another song, "Lorraine Today," is a fictionalized version of the life of someone Caitlin knows well.
"What Im hoping," she says, "is that it presents a clear picture without really beating home the plot -- its more like a poem now, I think, and one which I hope will
mean something a little different to each person who hears it." And "Please Break My Heart," co-penned with Thad Cockrell, emanated from Caitlins "complaint"
that her life was too relatively happy to inspire a country song. Thad went home and came up with the chorus hook "please break my heart." From there, she says,
"We set out together to write the plainest, saddest country song we could muster. So the end result is this incredibly sweet-sad song about a character who would
rather have the person she loves break her heart over and over again than let him go."

Adds producer Stamey: "On this album, Caitlin has combined honesty and romance, clarity and passion, in a way that makes you feel that this is not a contradiction
but the natural state of things. This is a record for true believers."

Im Staying Out follows 2002s While You Werent Looking, which received some of that years highest accolades. Entertainment Weekly wrote: "Trekking
through love's badlands, (Caitlins) rangy soprano is all hard-won confidence -- the sound of an erstwhile second fiddle claiming first chair." USA Today added:
"Turns out Ryan Adams isn't the only talented alumnus of alternative-country deities Whiskeytown. The band's ex-violinist blossoms out from under Adams'
prodigious shadow. Cary crafts charming and bittersweet Southern pop." And the Tennessean: "Cary is decidedly on her way, and its a sign of how good
Whiskeytown was that it may well have launched two noteworthy careers."

Plans call for a U.S. tour throughout the spring and summer months with dates to be announced shortly.

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For additional information on Caitlin Cary, please contact The Baker/Northrop Media Group:
Cary Baker    (818) 986-5200 x 222 cary@bakernorthrop.com http://www.bakernorthrop.com
Monica DAscanio (818) 986-5200 x 223 monica@bakernorthrop.com

Or Yep Roc Records and Redeye Publicity:
Angie Carlson     (336) 578-7300 x 209     angie@redeyeusa.com http://www.yeproc.com