Caroline Aiken

Caroline Aiken has paid her dues. Best known as the performer who brought Amy Ray and Emily Saliers together as the Indigo Girls, Aiken has been an active participant of the acoustic music scenes in Atlanta, Seattle, and Greenwich Village for more than two decades. Aiken's musical tale began on the Georgia Sea island, St. Simons, where she was born and raised Although she took formal piano lessons from the age of six and sang in the choir of a Episcopalian church, Aiken was more inspired by the songs she was sung by her nanny, Emma Lee Ramsey, who sang with Bessie Jones' Georgia Sea Island Singers. Running away from home at the age of 15, Aiken lived on the West Coast for two years. At the age of 18, however, she retreated to the jungles of Central America and fell in with a cult. The political…