Laura Love

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Laura Love
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Background information
Birth nameLaura Jones
Born1960 (age 64–65)
Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.
Genres Folk, Afro-Celtic
OccupationSinger-songwriter
InstrumentBass guitar
Years active1976–present

Laura Love (born 1960) is an American singer-songwriter and bass guitar player. Her style has been described as "Afro-Celtic" and has also been influenced by bluegrass.

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Personal life

Love was born Laura Jones in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1960. [1] She is of African American, Native American, and white descent. [2] Love had a difficult childhood, raised by a mother with schizophrenia and in foster homes. [3] Her father, who had little involvement in her life, was the jazz musician Preston Love who played the saxophone with Count Basie, Lucky Millinder and Johnny Otis and formed his own band in the 1950s. Love's mother, Wini, had been a singer in Preston's jazz band. [4]

Preston Love Jr., her older half-brother, is a Nebraska politician.

Career

Love began her performing career at age 16, singing for the prisoners at the Nebraska State Penitentiary. [5] Love relocated to Seattle, Washington, where she was a member of the 1980s rock group Boom Boom G.I. [1] She was also a member of an all-female band, Venus Envy.

After Love released three albums on her own label, Octoroon Biography, Putumayo released a collection of her songs in 1995. Her 2003 album Welcome to Pagan Place included the controversial[ citation needed ] song "I Want You Gone", about George W. Bush. In 2004, she published an autobiography titled You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes, [3] with an accompanying album of the same name. [6]

Discography

Published works

References

  1. 1 2 Bush, James (1999). "Laura Love". Encyclopedia of Northwest Music: From Classical Recordings to Classic Rock Performances, Your Guide to the Best of the Region. Seattle, Washington: Sasquatch Books. pp. 249–250. ISBN   9781570611414. OCLC   41564967.
  2. ↑ "African-Native American Scholars". African-Native American Scholars. 2008. Archived from the original on August 2, 2007. Retrieved July 30, 2008.
  3. 1 2 Love, Laura (2004). You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes (1st ed.). New York: Hyperion. ISBN   9781401300111. LCCN   2004-47327. OCLC   54806098.
  4. ↑ "Hard times ring sweet in the soulful words of singer-songwriter-author Laura Love, daughter of the late jazz man, Preston Love Sr". Leo Adam Biga's My Inside Stories. May 1, 2010. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Laura Love Biography". Pandora Internet Radio. Retrieved January 10, 2008.
  6. ↑ Laura Love (2004). You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes (CD). New York: Koch Records. LCCN   2004-717557. OCLC   56494107. koc-cd-9553.
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