Laura Cantrell

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Laura Cantrell on July 30th, 2005 at the Cambridge Folk Festival

Laura Cantrell (* around 1967 in Nashville , Tennessee , USA ) is a country singer and radio DJ with her own program ( Radio Thrift Shop ) on WFMU . She is married to Jeremy Tepper (front man for The World Famous Blue Jays ), with whom she has a daughter.

Life

In the mid-1980s, Cantrell moved to New York City to study law at Columbia University . At that time, however, she had already had a keen interest in music and had worked as a visitor guide in the Country Music Hall of Fame the summer before her departure .

At the university she then worked on campus radio WKCR and at the same time began to appear in the local club scene as a singer and also as a backup singer on several records (including on the album Apollo 18 by the band They Might Be Giants ). After graduating from Columbia, she worked as a volunteer at the radio station WFMU, where she received her own weekly program, The Radio Thrift Shop , from 1993 . Of this, the BBC broadcast several special programs in the summer of 2005 on Radio Scotland . As a DJ she has also been on other channels, such as B. NPR .

In 1996 she released her first solo record on the label "Hello CD of the Month Club" by the band They Might Be Giants, which is only sold by subscription . At the time she was funded by her work in the New York offices of Bank of America , where she served until 2003 in the position of Vice President and Business Manager of the Securities Equity Research Department .

Their first album, Not the Tremblin 'Kind , was recorded in 1999 and released by the small Scottish label Spit & Polish Records . It received mostly positive reviews. John Peel called the album “my favorite record from the last ten years, and possibly my life” (“my favorite record from the last ten years, and maybe my life”). She also recorded five peel sessions with Peel .

In 2000, the album was released in the United States on her husband's label, Diesel Only Records , and again brought largely rave reviews and a surge in popularity for Cantrell as an artist. Rolling Stone magazine called the album “an austere beauty” (“a serious beauty”).

To promote their second album, When The Roses Bloom Again , she toured in 2002 by the States and in Europe, while in the opening act of Elvis Costello appeared who had personally chosen for it. Her last album to date, Humming by the Flowered Vine , was released in 2005 on the Matador Records label .

Discography

Here are just the records that Cantrell released as a solo artist:

title Released format Label
Not the tremblin 'child October 10, 2000 CD Diesel Only (USA) / Spit & Polish (UK)
All The Same To You 2002 EP Spit & Polish (UK)
When the Roses Bloom Again September 24, 2002 CD / LP Diesel Only (USA, CD) / Spit & Polish (UK) / Sundazed (LP)
The Hello Recordings June 13, 2004 (originally produced and edited by John Flansburgh in 1996 ) EP Diesel Only (USA) / Spit & Polish (UK)
Humming By The Flowered Vine June 21, 2005 CD / LP Matador
Humming Songs: Acoustic Performances from the Flowered Vine March 14, 2006 EP (only via iTunes ) Matador
Trains and Boats and Planes 2008 only as a download
Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs Of The Queen Of Country Music 2011 CD Shoeshine

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personal data
SURNAME Cantrell, Laura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American country singer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Nashville , Tennessee, USA