Laura Cantrell - Humming By the Flowered Vine
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Artist: Laura CantrellEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2005-06-21
Music Label: Matador Records
Soundtracks:
- 14th Street
- What You Said
- And Still
- Khaki And Corduroy
- Letters
- California Rose
- Wishful Thinking
- Poor Ellen Smith
- Bees
- Old Downtown
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Free Music Review: Sweetly sung melodies
Hit: 5 Stars
Laura Cantrell has a gorgeous voice.
I downloaded her song "14th Street" as it had the New York appeal. By the end of the week I had found her CD "Humming by the Flowered Vine" and it was well worth the import price. The fact that she is a New York based performer appeals even more as I love songs that are about New York or can be sung southerly about The City in the right note.
Laura does not disappoint or fail at any attempt. There are guest musicians that appear on the making of this record and just add an added bonus to the rotation of the music that spins in the player.
As the entire CD is outstanding, here are the A++ tracks:
-My number 1 favourite track is "Old Down Town," stunning at 6 minutes & never once gets mundane; many artists can not pull of a song for this length of time without losing the plot and heading in the wrong direction. This finds Laura singing about home and the complications of modern day city lifestyle.
-2nd Favourite is the downloadable MP3 "14th Street" which is exactly how I discovered upon this great very under-rated talent.
-The 3rd brilliant tune for me is "Letters."
Laura, all those times you played & sang in coffee houses surely paid off. I as a music lover feel the passion in the songs. This is fact not fiction as she was hand picked by Elvis Costello to open for his U.S. tour.
The New York times sums up the brilliance of Laura Cantrell best when they said:
"As Laura Cantrell performed 'Khaki and Corduroy,' her sleepy-sad reflection on being a Southerner transplanted to New York City . . . the auditorium [Jazz at Lincoln Center] was awash with the kind of cosmic wistfulness that the best country and folk music can conjure when it dreams of the past."
- Stephen Holden, The New York Times
I agree with Stephen Holden & I think many will agree with me when I simply say that Laura Cantrell is an artist with a STUNNING VOICE who produces songs in sweetest of melodies
- A.N.
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The follow-up to 2002's "When The Roses Bloom Again" is nothing less than masterful. Produced by JD Foster (Richard Buckner, Marc Ribot), the album features such stellar musicians as John Convertino and Paul Niehaus of Calexico, Amy Helm and Fiona McBain of Ollabelle, Jon Graboff, Mark Spencer, Dave Schramm, Jeremy Chatzky, and many more. Sad and sweet in all the right doses, Cantrell is one of the unique voices and minds in American music, and this third album shows the sort of poise and invention that we associate with the all-time greats, regardless of genre.Laura Cantrell has exceptional taste. One listen to her celebrated radio show "Radio Thrift Shop"on WFMU and you will know this instantly, as she mixes old school country and bluegrass with the best contemporary singer-songwriters. The cover art to this, her third album, is by the superlative artist Fred Tomaselli, and her choice of arcane, literate, and lovely cover songs is exquisite: a previously unreleased Lucinda Williams song ("Letters"), an obscure Appalachian murder ballad originally collected by her great-great aunt ("Poor Ellen Smith"), and a fabulous tune by singer-songwriter Emily Spray ("14th Street"). Of course, if good taste were all it took to be a great artist, we'd all be great artsists, right? Laura's not a crooner per se, but she has become an amazing singer, with delightful control over her voice. In fact, Cantrell sounds a lot like the long-lost, Tennessee-born sister to Linda Thompson, especially on the Dave Schramm-penned "And Still," and her own "Old Downtown." This is cosmic, American music, sung with subtlety and produced perfectly by JD Foster. ?Mike McGonigal.
Laura Cantrell's third album, Humming by the Flowered Vine, emerges into daunting company. Her debut, 2000's Not the Tremblin' Kind, was famously acclaimed by John Peel--who'd probably listened to more albums than anybody else--as "my favourite record of the last ten years, and possibly my life." The follow-up, 2002's When the Roses Bloom Again, was also widely, and rightly, hailed a classic. Humming by the Flowered Vine finds Cantrell understandably reluctant to tinker overmuch with a winning formula. Like its distinguished predecessors, it's a mix of Cantrell's own compositions and obscure cover versions which would only have appeared on the radar of a serious country enthusiast--Emily Spray's "14th Street," Jenifer Jackson's "What You Said," Dave Schramm's "And Still." If Cantrell does borrow from a big name, it's a previously unreleased song--in this case, a sublime version of Lucinda Williams's "Letters."
Humming by the Flowered Vine is a little more opulently arranged than previous albums. However, Cantrell's deceptively offhand, conversational voice remains an instantly recognisable and still treasurable idiosyncrasy, and her third album is a worthy addition to her canon. --Andrew Mueller
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