Jan 14, 2016
On today's episode, I talk to New York-based country music
artist Laura Cantrell.
Born in Nashville, TN, she came to New York to attend Columbia, 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 The Radio Thrift
Shop, which was on WFMU for thirteen years. She began her
career as a recording artist as part of one of Mac McCaughan's
first groups Bricks, and she even sings on TMBG's Apollo
18. Her first album of her own Not the Tremblin' Kind
was released in 2000, and John Peel said of it: "[It is] my
favourite record of the last ten years and possibly my life". Five
more albums of hers have been released since then, and her latest
is 2014's No Way There From Here, which is simply
brilliant.
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