Laura Cantrell

Laura Cantrell ( born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, the daughter of two lawyers ) is a country music singer and radio DJ with their own mission (Radio Thrift Shop ) on WFMU. She is married to Jeremy Tepper ( frontman of the band The World Famous Blue Jays ), with whom she has a daughter.

Career

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

At the University she then worked at the campus radio station WKCR, and began at the same time to perform in the local club scene as a singer and to participate as a backup singer on some boards ( among other things on the album Apollo 18 the band They Might Be Giants ). After graduating from Columbia, she worked as a volunteer at the radio station WFMU, where in 1993 her own weekly show, The Radio Thrift Shop received. From this, the BBC broadcast several special broadcasts in the summer of 2005 on Radio Scotland. As a DJ, it was previously heard on other stations such as NPR.

In 1996 she published her first solo recordings on the sold only by subscription "Hello CD of the Month Club " label the band They Might Be Giants. At this time it was financed through their work in the New York offices of Bank of America, where she was employed until 2003 in the position of Vice - President and Business Manager of the Securities Equity Research Department.

Their first album, Not the tremblin ' child, was recorded in 1999 and released from the small Scottish label Spit & Polish Records. It received mostly positive reviews. John Peel called the album "my favorite record from the load- th years, and Possibly my life" ( " my favorite record of the last decade, and perhaps my life "). With Peel, she mentioned five Peel Sessions.

In 2000, the album in the United States by the label of her husband, Diesel Only Records was published and brought again largely rave reviews and a strong boost in popularity for Cantrell as an artist. Rolling Stone magazine called the album " against 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, where she performed the opening act for Elvis Costello, who had chosen them personally. Her most recent album, Humming by the Flowered Vine, appeared in 2005 on the label Matador Records.

Discography

Here only to sound recordings which Cantrell has released as a solo artist: