Laura Cantrell has released a nine-track EP of travel-themed covers. The title track is emusic's free daily download today. The lovely "Love Vigilantes," which I posted a month or so ago, is also included on this album. Check it out. track list1. Trains and Boats and Planes 4:14 2. Train of Life 2:49 3. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald 6:26 4. Howard Hughes Blues 3:38 5. Love ...
This one's a bit of a classic country tearjerker, but a lovely song for all that. Cantrell's voice as well as the instrumental parts is absolutely gorgeous. So the Body of War has a soft side too. Is that a mandolin?
While some of you are in Baltimore at the Virgin Festival and others are in Jersey City at All Points West, my wife and I parked the baby with a friend for a couple of hours last night and went to see the lovely Laura Cantrell and her band at Jammin' Java in Northern Virginia. Laura told the "crowd" of about 50 people she has a baby daughter, so hasn't been touring very much the past couple o...