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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. Beginning on WFMU in 1993, the program was a Saturday afternoon staple in the New York area for 13 years, then moved to WFMU.org and ran for two seasons on BBC Radio Scotland as a summer replacement in 2005 and 2006. In her ten-year recording career, Cantrell has released three acclaimed albums: Not The Tremblin' Kind, When The Roses Bloom Again, and Humming By The Flowered Vine. She has toured extensively in the United Kingdom, Europe and Ireland, and was a favorite of pioneering British disc jockey John Peel, who called her 2000 album Not The Tremblin Kind 'my favorite record of the last ten years, possibly my life.' Cantrell recorded several Peel sessions for the BBC from 2000-2004 and appeared on the first Peel Day program on Radio One commemorating the first anniversary of Peel s death. Cantrell's music has been celebrated in the press including features in The New York Times, 'O' Magazine, Elle, and the Wall Street Journal. Cantrell's music has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered, On Point, and Weekend Edition. She has performed on A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, and the Grand Ole Opry, and appeared on the television programs Late Night with Conan O Brien, and the Sundance Channel s Spectacle: Elvis Costello. In recent years, she has been a contributor to The New York Times and www.VanityFair.com.
At The BBC - Vinyl - On Air Performances & Recordings 2000-2005 Vinyl Over the past 15 years, Laura Cantrell has been a familiar presence on the U.K. country music scene. The Nashville-born, New York-based artist has developed a loyal audience through consistent touring, and numerous radio interviews and sessions for BBC programs hosted by Bob Harris, Andy Kershaw and the late John Peel, who famously championed her debut album, Not The Tremblin’ Kind. Her new release, Laura Cantrell At The BBC compiles the best of her on-air performances from 2000-2005, including several previously unreleased songs, and traces the arc of Cantrell’s rise as an Americana artist on the airwaves of the venerable British broadcasting system. Laura Cantrell At The BBC features performances recorded at the BBC’s famous Maida Vale recording complex, the Broadcasting House studios in London, and the more informal setting of 'Peel Acres,' John Peel’s home studio. 'Going back through all the performances, I remembered how intimidating it was walking into Maida Vale with its gorgeous rooms for orchestras and plaques of The Beatles on the wall and engineers named 'Simon' and 'Guy'– I think my first or second session at Maida Vale featured an engineer in a lab coat, like a scientist! It was humbling to realize what a novice I was, and yet, despite my relative inexperience, I kept getting invited back.' Song selections range from fan favourites of Cantrell’s catalogue like 'The Whiskey Makes You Sweeter'and 'Bees' to covers like contemporary songwriter Cheri Knight’s 'All Blue,' country rarities like 'Rain Boy,' and standards such as 'Legend In My Time.' Some of Cantrell’s favorite performances in this collection come from her visits to 'Peel Acres.' Cantrell recounts, 'I had known the name ‘John Peel’ – as just a famous BBC DJ from the late 1960s and 1970s, as a symbol of freedom on the radio and having an informal, irreverent style. I saw the Peel Sessions discs in the record library at WFMU and had even tried to tune in his world service program on the short wave. But I never imagined, even as we were readying Tremblin’ Kind for release, that my music would attract his attention.' Cantrell ultimately was invited to do five Peel Sessions, two recorded at Maida Vale and three broadcast live from 'Peel Acres.' All of those sessions are represented on this collection.
Tracklisting: Side 1) 1. Wait / 2. Rain Boy / 3. Old Downtown / 4. Mountain Fern / 5. Hong Kong Blues / 6. Khaki & Corduroy / 7. All Blue / 8. Bees Side 2) 1. Christmas Letter Home / 2. New Year's Resolution / 3. Oh So Many Years / 4. I Lost You But I Found Country Music / 5. Whiskey Makes You Sweeter / 6. Legend In My Time / 7. 7. When The Roses Bloom Again
Not The Tremlin'Kind Vinyl Laura Cantrell has had her songwriting compaired to Dolly Parton and her voice compared to Kitty Wells, neither of which can be a bad thing. This, her debut full length album, recieved huge critical aclaim when it was first released. "Not The Tremblin' Kind"'s highlights include much loved versions of The Volebeat's "2 Seconds Of Your Love", Amy Rigby's "The Whisky Makes You Sweeter" and Laura's brilliant ode to country singer Bonnie Owen; "Queen Of The Coast".
Tracklisting: Side 1) Not The Tremblin Kind / 2. Little Bit Of You / 3. Queen Of The Coast / 4. Pile Of Woe / 5. Two Seconds / 6. Churches Off The Interstate Side 2) 1. The Whiskey Makes You Sweeter / 2. Do You Ever Think Of Me / 3. Big Wheel / 4. My Heart Goes Out To You / 5. Somewhere, Some Night / 6. The Way It Is