Laura Cantrell
Laura Cantrell
Hometown: Chattanooga
Residence: New York City
Style: Americana/Folk
Website: www.lauracantrell.com
“This project feels like a step forward for me,” Cantrell notes. “But at the same time, I feel like I’m going back to my roots, making music purely for myself. Delving into these songs allowed me to feel my way through the music and rediscover my instincts.”
Trains and Boats and Planes features Cantrell’s first new recordings in three years, ending a temporary hiatus during which her attentions were focused on raising her new daughter. The new, all-covers collection adds a vibrant new chapter to the artist’s distinctive, deeply personal body of work, which has artfully merged her lifelong affinity for American country and folk traditions with an unmistakably contemporary sensibility. The result is timelessly resonant music that’s unmistakably personal and thoroughly original.
The British daily The Independent called Cantrell “arguably the most vital new country voice in decades,” while The New York Times praised “the kind of cosmic wistfulness that the best country and folk music can conjure when it dreams of the past.” The Wall Street Journal described her as “sweet and steady, sneaking up on you with a light touch and a sustained passion.” London’s Sunday Times noted, “She picks great songs to sing, and her clear, understated voice proves the perfect vehicle to convey the emotion-drenched lyrics.” Rolling Stone called Cantrell “a modern woman with an old-timey heart, with a voice pitched somewhere between the bluesy realism of Lucinda Williams and the vintage femininity of Kitty Wells.”
