Deer Tick has settled down, and that's good
Until a few years ago, John McCauley was the sort of musician people worried about. The Deer Tick singer had long subsisted on a frightening diet of drugs, alcohol and raucous, volatile live performances that bordered on the scary and insane.
"I get nervous just replaying scenarios in my head of stuff I did when I was younger," McCauley says calling from the Nashville home he now shares with his wife, musician Vanessa Carlton, and their 2-year-old daughter Sidney. On his worst days, the
