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Nashville singer-songwriter, adored by John Peel, brings her outstanding songbook to the stage
Laura Cantrell is a country music artist based in New York City. Born in Nashville, TN, she came to New York to attend Columbia College, and found that her abiding interest in country music helped her stay connected with her family roots. That interest was the motivation behind her long-running radio program on WFMU in Jersey City, NJ, The Radio Thrift Shop.
In her ten-year recording career, Cantrell has released the acclaimed albums: Not The Tremblin’ Kind, When The Roses Bloom Again, Humming By The Flowered Vine, Trains and Boats and Planes, Kitty Wells Dresses and No Way There From Here.
She has toured extensively and was a favourite of pioneering dj John Peel, who called her album Not The Tremblin’ Kind “my favourite record of the last ten years, possibly my life.” Cantrell recorded several Peel sessions for the BBC and appeared on the first Peel Day program on Radio One commemorating the first anniversary of Peel’s passing.
Not The Tremblin’ Kind “my favourite record of the last ten years, possibly my life.”
John Peel
'The kind of cosmic wistfulness that the best country and folk music can conjure when it dreams of the past’
The New York Times
'She picks great songs to sing, and her clear, understated voice proves the perfect vehicle to convey the emotion-drenched lyrics.'
The Sunday Times
'A modern woman with an old-timey heart, with a voice pitched somewhere between the bluesy realism of Lucinda Williams and the vintage femininity of Kitty Wells.'
Rolling Stone