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| Birth name | Laura Rose Cantrell |
| Born | July 16, 1967 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Genres | Alt Country, Singer-Songwriter, Indie |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter, singer, radio dj |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar, piano |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Labels | Diesel Only, Shoeshine, Matador |
| Website | www |
Laura Cantrell (born July 16, 1967) [1] is a country singer-songwriter and DJ from Nashville, Tennessee.
Cantrell moved to New York City from her native Nashville to study English at Columbia University. She briefly recorded songs with future Superchunk guitarist Mac McCaughan and others in a lo-fi band called Bricks and deejaying on the university's radio station, WKCR, until joining WFMU after her graduation in 1993.
Her singing career began when she was at college, performing with various local groups. She later befriended John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants, with whom she sings on the band's Apollo 18 (1992). Flansburgh also released her first solo material: an EP on his "Hello CD of the Month Club" in June 1996, which was reissued in 2004 as The Hello Recordings.
Cantrell married Jeremy Tepper, the founder of Diesel Only Records, in 1997. They have one daughter. Cantrell went on to release all but one of her studio albums on Diesel Only. [2]
Cantrell reached wider recognition in 2000 with her debut album, Not the Tremblin' Kind . The album reached the attention of legendary UK DJ John Peel, who wrote of it, "[It is] my favourite record of the last ten years and possibly my life". She went on to record five sessions for Peel and dedicated her 2005 album, Humming by the Flowered Vine , to his memory.
In the spring of 2011, Cantrell released Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs Of the Queen of Country Music, "a recording she made in honor of one of her heroines, the great Kitty Wells", [3] taking its title from an original song of Cantrell's written in tribute to Wells.
Her 4th album of original material, No Way There From Here, was released in the UK in September 2013, on Shoeshine/ Spit and Polish Records. The release preceded a tour of the UK.
Cantrell's music has been celebrated in the press including features in The New York Times . In recent years, she has been a contributor to The New York Times and VanityFair.com.
Cantrell used to present a weekly country and old-time music radio show on WFMU called The Radio Thrift Shop. Since October 2005 she has only made occasional appearances on the station. In August 2017, she began hosting Dark Horse Radio, a weekly 30-minute program on SiriusXM featuring the music of George Harrison. [4]
In the early part of her career, Cantrell combined her musical activities with a day job as a vice-president in the equity research department of Bank of America. [5] She left this position in 2003. [6] In 2011 she began working as a recruiter for AllianceBernstein. [7]
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Bricks were an indie rock band founded in New York City in the late 1980s. The group was formed by Merge Records co-founder Mac McCaughan while he was studying at Columbia University, along with Nashville-born singer-songwriter Laura Cantrell, plus classmates Andrew Webster and Josh Phillips. The foursome recorded at least 18 lo-fi songs between 1988 and 1990, which they released on a cassette and two 7-inch singles before disbanding. Their first single, "Girl With The Carrot Skin", enjoyed college radio airplay and was also made into a music video. Shot on super-8 film, the video featured the band eating and playing with copious amounts of carrots.
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