Photo by DavidMcClister Caitlin Canty is at home in Danby, VT, her newborn son asleep on her lap, only a week old. “It’s a sweet change from Nashville,” she says, her soft voice lucid, illuminating. “I’ve always loved being here.” Canty grew up 30 minutes down the road in Proctor where her parents (retired teachers and house painters) still live. They surprised her with an acoustic guitar at age 17 and she played ’til her fingers bled. Then, a flash of reverberant magic inside a “church-turned-coffee-shop” for the final performance of a songwriting class at Williams College in Williamstown, MA…
