The desire and talent to perform runs deep in Caitlin Cannon’s blood, a Huntsville, Alabama, native, who began playing out in Brooklyn, but now shuttles between Colorado and Nashville, making side trips back to Alabama to visit her brother. In her latest release, The TrashCannon Album, she delivers playful lyrics in her smoky, seductive voice, in slide-across-the-dance-floor propulsive countrypolitan tunes fueled by pop, punk, and show rhythms. Cannon cannily, with a big heart and a big voice, wraps up lyrics that shout frustration, anger, loneliness, and defiance in beautiful musical gifts that have her fans singing and dancing along with the tunes long before they realize the words they’re singing. And she grows on you. It’s the mark of a great songwriter, as well as the sign of a performer who knows how not to leave fans alone in their baggage.
