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Chanteuse
Country US née Laura Rose Cantrell, le 16 Juillet 1967 à Nashville (Tennessee).
Possessing
a bright clear voice that combines the vulnerability of a young girl with the
intelligence and resilience of a grown woman, Laura Cantrell burst onto the
international music scene in 2000 with a debut album that showcased her
affecting Vocals, literate songwriting, and superb taste in musicians and fellow
songwriters. Cantrell, however, had followed a rather unusual path to become one
of the new favorites of Americana -- she moved from her home in Tennessee to New
York City, studied law and accounting in college, and juggles a career in
finance with her busy sidelines as a musician and disc jockey.
Laura Cantrell was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee; her father was a
lawyer (in time, he earned a seat with the Tennessee Court of Appeals), and she
initially intended to follow suit. However, as a teenager she developed a keen
interest in music, and before leaving Tennessee to attend Columbia University,
she landed a summer job as a tour guide at the Country Music Hall of Fame. The
job sparked an interest in classic country sounds of the '30s, '40s, and '50s,
and while at Columbia she became involved in student radio, hosting a show in
which she spun country sounds both old and new, as well as immersing herself in
the alternative rock scene. Cantrell discovered she liked to sing, and began
making occasional club appearances with her many musically inclined friends; she
also made her recording debut in 1990, singing backup on a single by Bricks, a
lo-fi collaboration between Mac McCaughan of Superchunk and Andrew Webster of
Tsunami. Cantrell's interest in radio led to her landing her own show on New
Jersey's WFMU-FM, one of America's best regarded free-form radio stations, and
on Radio Thrift Shop Cantrell won a large and loyal audience playing
classic country, folk, and singer/songwriter recordings as well as her favorite
artists from New York's burgeoning alt-country scene.
In 1996, Cantrell released her first solo recording, a locally distributed EP
called Hello; by this time, Cantrell was supporting her enthusiasm for music by
working in the New York offices of Bank of America, where she rose to the
position of Vice President of Equity Research (making her that rare musician who
can actually understand an accounting statement from her record company). In
1999, Cantrell recorded her first album, Not the Tremblin' Kind, which was
produced by Jay Sherman-Godfrey, a former member of New York-based honky tonk
rockers the World Famous Blue Jays (whose leader, Jeremy Tepper, is also
Cantrell's husband). Released by a small Scottish label, Spit & Polish Records,
Not the Tremblin' Kind soon received a stack of rave reviews, most notably from
legendary British disc jockey John Peel, who called it "my favorite record from
the last ten years, and possibly my life." (Cantrell made five appearances on
his BBC Radio program.) Tepper's "rig rock" label Diesel Only Records released
the album stateside in 2000, and Cantrell quickly began balancing tour dates and
recording sessions with her careers in finance and radio. (Cantrell, describing
music as "insanely expensive," has yet to quit her day job, despite her growing
success in music.)
Cantrell's second album, When the Roses Bloom Again, followed in 2002; to
support its release, Cantrell toured Europe and the United States opening for
another noted fan of her records, Elvis Costello. In 2004 she released The Hello
Recordings, a five-song collection of demos, followed by the full-length J.D.
Foster-produced Humming by the Flowered Vine in 2005, which was dedicated to the
memory of John Peel. After touring in support of the album, Cantrell chose to
spend her time child-rearing and performed only sporadically between 2006 and
2011, including a well-received performance at the Barbican Centre in London in
2008. Cantrell re-emerged in 2011 with the Mark Nevers-produced album Kitty
Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music, a collection featuring one
original and a slew of interpretations associated with Wells, who -- 91 years
old at the time of the album's release -- was the oldest living member of the
Country Music Hall of Fame.
In 2013, Cantrell
traveled to Nashville to record her fifth studio album. No Way There from Here,
a return to the style and outlook of Humming by the Flowered Vine, was released
in the U.K. in late 2013, and appeared in the United States in early 2014
https://www.facebook.com/laura.cantrell.56
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Cantrell
Talents : Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Songwriter, Radio DJ
Style musical : Contemporary Country / Neo-Traditionalist Country / Alternative/Indie Rock / Contemporary Singer/Songwriter / Alternative Singer/Songwriter
Years in activity :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
Singles & EP
| 04/1992 | EP 12" EastWest SAM 991 (UK) (promo) | . | THE GUITAR - AThe Guitar (Even Further Outer Planet mix) / The Guitar (Outer Planet mix) |
| 1992 | CD Elektra EKR 145 CD (EUR) |
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They Might Be Giants - The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) - The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) (UK single edit) / The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) (Williamsburgh extended mix) / Cabbagetown / Siftin' |
| 1992 | EP 12" Elektra PRO 689 (EUR) (promo) |
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The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) - The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) (Outer Planet mix) / The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) (Even Further Outer Planet mix) / The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) (Williamsburgh extended mix) / Larger Than Life (Joshua Fried's remake of "She's Actual Size") |
| 07/1996 | CD Hello Recording Club hel-67 (US) |
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Cellar Door / Roll Truck Roll / No Place For Me / The Curse Of Hook Mountain / Lee Harvey Was A Friend Of Mine |
| 02/2000 | CD CONNECT PROMOTION & PRODUCTION ? (US) | . | CONNECT SET - Letters / California Rose / Khaki & Corduroy / Bees / Lee Harvey Was A Friend Of Mine |
| 2000 | CD SPIT & POLISH ? (UK) |
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Not The Tremblin' Kind / Too Late For Tonight |
| 04/2003 | CD SPIT & POLISH SPITCDS 001 (UK) |
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ALL THE SAME TO YOU - All The Same To You / When The Roses Bloom Again / High On A Hilltop |
| 07/2004 | CD DIESEL ONLY DO7010 (US) |
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THE HELLO RECORDINGS - Cellar Door / Roll Truck Roll / No Place For Me / The Curse Of Hook Mountain / Lee Harvey Was A Friend Of Mine |
| 2004 ? | CD NOT ON LABEL (UK) |
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THE HELLO RECORDINGS - Cellar Door / Roll Truck Roll / No Place For Me / The Curse Of Hook Mountain / Lee Harvey Was A Friend Of Mine |
| 2005 | CD MATADOR ? (UK) |
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14th Street / Letters / Hammer & Nails |
| 2008 | CD DIESEL ONLY DO 7011 (US) |
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TRAINS AND BOATS AND PLANES - Trains And Boats And Planes / Train Of Life / The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald / Howard Hughes' Blues / Love Vigilantes / Silver Wings |
| 2011 | CD SPIT & POLISH SPIT039 (UK) (promo) |
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Kitty Wells Dresses |
| 2013 | CD Cadiz Music ? (UK) (promo) |
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Can't Wait |
| 2014 | CD SPIT & POLISH ? (UK) (promo) |
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Starry Skies |
| 04/2015 | SP O GENESIS OGen064 (EUR) (limited edition, Yellow, Translucent) | . |
Emilie (Sinkane featuring The Charlatans) / Emanuel (Laura Cantrell featuring The Charlatans) |
Albums
| 10/2000 | CD DIESEL ONLY DO7001 (US) |
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NOT THE TREMBLIN' KIND - Not The Tremblin' Kind / Little Bit Of You / Queen Of The Coast / Pile Of Woe / Two Seconds / Churches Off The Interstate / The Whiskey Makes You Sweeter / Do You Ever Think Of Me / Big Wheel / My Heart Goes Out To You / Somewhere, Some Night / The Way It Is | ||
| 09/2002 | CD DIESEL ONLY DO 7005 (US) |
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WHEN THE ROSES BLOOM AGAIN - Too Late For Tonight / All The Same To You / Early Years / Don't Break The Heart / Wait / Mountain Fern / Vaguest Idea / Yonder Comes A Freight Train / Broken Again / When The Roses Bloom Again / Conqueror's Song / Oh So Many Years | ||
| 06/2005 | CD MATADOR OLE 651-2 (US) |
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HUMMING BY THE FLOWERED VINE - 14th Street / What You Said / And Still / Khaki & Corduroy / Letters / California Rose / Wishful Thinking / Poor Ellen Smith / Bees / Old Downtown | ||
| 07/2005 | 2 CD SPIT & POLISH SPIT 024 (UK) |
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WHEN THE ROSES BLOOM AGAIN / THE HELLO
RECORDINGS :
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| 05/2011 | CD DIESEL ONLY DO 7012 (US) |
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KITTY WELLS DRESSES - SONGS OF THE QUEEN OF COUNTRY MUSIC - Kitty Wells Dresses / I Don't Claim To Be An Angel / Poison In Your Heart / One By One / I Can't Tell My Heart / It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels / Making Believe / Amigo's Guitar / I Gave My Wedding Dress Away / Searching For A Soldier's Grave | ||
| 01/2014 | CD Thrift Shop TSR 001 (US) |
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No Way There from Here - All The Girls Are Complicated / Starry Skies / Letter She Sent / No Way There from Here / Glass Armour / Beg Or Borrow Days / Driving Down Your Street / When It Comes To You / Can't Wait / Barely Said A Thing / Washday Blues / Someday Sparrow | ||
| 04/2016 | CD Shoeshine SPIT 043 (UK) |
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Laura Cantrell At The BBC - Wait / Rain Boy / Old Downtown / Mountain Fern / Hong Kong Blues / Khaki & Corduroy / All Blue / Bees / Christmas Letter Home / New Year's Resolution / Oh So Many Years / I Lost You But I Found Country Music / The Whiskey Makes You Sweeter / Legend In My Time / When The Roses Bloom Again |
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