Laura Cantrell tributes Kitty Wells

No Way There From Here

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 ...

Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music

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 ...

Trains and Boats and Planes

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 ...