Laura Cantrell returns with EP
Friday, April 4, 2008 – After a three-year gap, Laura Cantrell will return on Tax Day with an EP covers disc. "Trains and Boats and Planes" will be out via Diesel Only, the label run by her husband, Jeremy Tepper as a digital only release.
Cantrell, a Tennessee native who lives in New York, mines the folk side of country. Among the songs on the CD besides the Burt Bacharach-Hal David title track, are Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Merle Haggard's "Silver Wings" and New Order's "Love Vigilantes." Cantrell also sings "Train of Life" by Roger Miller and "Howard Hughes Blues" by John Hartford. The disc contains three previously released songs - "Roll Truck Roll" from "The Hello Recordings CP" from 1996, "Big Wheel" from "Not the Tremblin Kind from 2000 and "Yonder Comes a Freight Train" from "When the Roses Bloom" from 2002.
Cantrell's last release was "Humming By The Flowered Vine," out in 2005 on Matador.
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Midway through Laura Cantrell's "No Way Home From Here," she kicks off the track "Beg or Borrow Days" with a two-step groove colored with fiddle and slightly Celtic feel. This leads to the banjo-driven "Driving Down Your Street," another rhythmic track that. And after the four melancholy, manic depressive songs in a row that precede these, it's a little like a light going on. But then again, the opener, "All the Girls Are Complicated," should give ...
Over the past decade, Laura Cantrell has become one of the most lauded singers within the Americana field. A gifted songwriter herself, Cantrell has been quick with a cover having included songs from diverse sources including Roger Miller, New Order, Gordon Lightfoot, Lucinda Williams and Wynn Stewart on her albums. Obviously a labor of love, "Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music" doesn't stop with charts hits, although a handful are included including impressive ...
This eight-song, digital-only EP is Laura Cantrell's abbreviated follow up to the critically acclaimed
"Humming By The Flowered Vine" (Matador Records, 2005). For this project, Cantrell chose a half dozen covers by estimable songwriting talents including Roger Miller, John Hartford, Merle Haggard and Burt Bachrach-Hal David. There's even a poignantly rendered cover of New Order's "Love Vigilantes."
Although this thematic EP seems to be about travel, in plumbing ...
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