catiecurtis
Catie Curtis, born and raised in Saco, Maine, began playing guitar and writing songs at the age of 15. Trading back and forth between her high top sneakers and her 6-string acoustic, Catie spent as much time during her college years playing hoops with the Brown women's basketball team as she did playing her songs at the campus coffeehouse. After graduation, Catie moved to San Francisco, CA, waitressing at a diner by day and writing songs by night. A year later, Catie succumbed to the pull of her New England roots, finding a home in the thriving Boston acoustic music scene. While employed for a few years as a social worker, Catie recorded From Years To Hours and Truth From Lies on her own indie label. In 1996, EMI/Guardian Records signed Catie and released Truth From Lies internationally. Her eponymous second album with Guardian contained the single "Soulfully," and helped break Catie into the national spotlight. The New Yorker deemed her a "folk-rock goddess," and a career was officially launched.
Since then, Catie has toured with Lilith Fair, and with artists such as Dar Williams and Mary Chapin Carpenter. Her songs have appeared in numerous television shows (Dawson's Creek, Felicity, Chicago Hope, and Alias), and independent films (500 Miles to Graceland, A Slipping Down Life). She continues to tour, headlining clubs, theaters and acoustic listening rooms, building and nurturing a strong and loyal fan base around the US and Europe. She released two records on Rykodisc Records, A Crash Course in Roses (1999) and My Shirt Looks Good on You (2001-from which the single "Kiss that Counted" won a Boston Music Award). Catie released Acoustic Valentine on her own Sam the Pug Records in 2003. Dreaming in Romance Languages, (2004) is her first release on Vanguard Records.
" Curtis proves she can still spin lyrics of quiet grace and poignant detail. And Curtis uses her signature voice-crack to yank on the heart-strings. All in all Dreaming is evidence that Curtis is, as the say in her native Maine, the finest kind.
" The New Yorker magazine calls our own Catie Curtis "a folk-rock goddess," and who are we to argue? With her shy charisma and hushed, literate balladry, she helped launch the Boston songwriter revival of the '90s. On her new Vanguard CD, Dreaming in Romance Languages, she ties her intimate landscapes to broader themes of spirituality, community, and lasting love. She creates useful anthems that are all the more convincing for their lack of easy answers or cheap certainties.