Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN
October 2002
Photograph by Amy Dickerson
October 2002
Photograph by Amy Dickerson
| Fit for a Queen: Thanks to everyone who came to see our tribute to Kitty Wells at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. What a special treat to get asked at the last minute to play some of Wells' songs on the Grand Ole Opry's new Country Classics Thursday night broadcast. In case you missed, check out here! Also check out "Kitty Wells Dresses" which Laura wrote with Amy Allison and debuted at the Hall of Fame, at Laura's myspace page. |
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| Laura at Vanity Fair: Read an essay on the Patsy Cline crash site written by Laura for Vanity Fair magazine's blog. Find it here! | |
| America's Most Colorful Hillbilly Band!: "California Rose" cited in a Pop Matters post by Juli Thanki about the Maddox Brothers and Rose. Check it here! | |
| LC on 6music: Folks, a favorite Peel session of mine was recently rebroadcast on Marc Riley's Brain Surgery on the BBC's digital radio station 6Music. If you're interested in Peel, check out The Peel Sessions: A Story of Teenage Dreams and One Man's Love of New Music by Ken Garner. |
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| Elvis & Laura on TV!: Elvis Costello and Laura harmonize on the old James Taylor/George Jones duet "Bartender's Blues" on the fourth episode of Costello's new Spectacle show on the Sundance channel. In case you missed it, check it out here! | |
| Patsy vs. Kitty: Check out Laura's contribution to the book, Rock And Roll Cage Match, Music's Greatest Rivalries Decided. Laura details her fascination with Kitty Wells and Patsy Cline, telling how, in her eyes, there can be only one "Queen of Country Music." You can buy it here! | |
| Lucinda Speaks! Lucinda Williams describes how hearing Laura's cover of "Letters" on "Humming By The Flowered Vine" influenced the song choices on her new album, "Little Honey." Read it here! | |
| Laura's new digital-only covers EP, "Trains and Boats and Planes," is now available for download from iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, and most digital retailers (but is NOT being sold in stores). Laura's first new recordings in three years are travel-themed, based on the Burt Bacharach-Hal David title track, along with thoughtfully-chosen songs by Roger Miller, Merle Haggard, John Hartford, Gordon Lightfoot, New Order, and three previously-released tracks. Read a new interview with Laura from Pop Matters and a story on the new release in the The Times of London. | |
| Laura's acoustic version of the New Order song "Love Vigilantes" is included on the soundtrack of the new film, "Body of War," a profile of Iraq veteran Tomas Young. The soundtrack is available now from Sire Records, and also features tracks by Eddie Vedder, Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, and others. | |
| Check out the reviews and previews of Laura's recent East Coast tour in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Philadelphia City Paper and New Haven Advocate, read her rant on her musical heroines at the record collector blog Boogie Woogie Flu and hear her recent appearance on WNYC public radio. |
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| Laura's acclaimed "Radio Thrift Shop," a NYC radio institution since 1992, is now streaming live worldwide on WFMU every other Wednesday morning from 6-9 am EST, with all show archives and playlists available for streaming on demand. | |
| Check out Laura's interpretation of the NYC subway map, featuring streaming audio of her entire 2005 album "Humming by the Flowered Vine." | |
| Don't Get Lost! This week's episode of Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (entitled "Don't Get Lost") opened with Laura's recording of "14th Street" from "Humming By The Flowered Vine." WOW, the third song of Laura's to be played on Theme Time Radio Hour, we are not worthy! The program airs again on the SIRIUS XM Deep Tracks channel (SIRIUS 16, XM 40) Sunday at 8 am and Monday at 8 am ET. |