(Photo from Laura’s homepage)
DJ and singer-songwriter Laura Cantrell gained a lot of fans in the UK after getting the highest of praise from the venerable broadcaster and all around good guy John Peel. Cantrell’s debut album Not the Tremblin’ Kind was described by Peel as “My favourite record of the last ten years and possibly my life is an LP by a New York woman born in Nashville called Laura Cantrell. It’s country, and I don’t know why I like it, but it has the same sort of effect on me as Roy Orbison had in the ’60s.”
Cantrell went on to record five sessions for Peel between February 2001 and December 2003, some of the tracks from those sessions are available to download along with a choice selection of others at Cantrell’s website.
Here’s a trio of tracks including the title track from the 2002 release When the Roses Bloom Again to go with them, recorded from Laura’s appearance on Mountain Stage in November 2007
Laura Cantrell – Conqueror’s Song
Laura Cantrell – When the Roses Bloom Again
Laura Cantrell – Early Years
Laura is also involved with the Radio Free Song Project and has just released a track that is a collaboration with Amy Allison and Mark Spencer, Kitty Wells’ Dresses
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