Biography

No Way There From Here, the new album from Nashville-born, New York City-based singer-songwriter Laura Cantrell, will be released January 28 on Thrift Shop Recordings and distributed by Redeye. Already receiving critical acclaim in the U.K., The Telegraph praises, “impeccable…a strong, confident, articulate woman determined to plough her own furrow—all the while reminding the country music business where it came from.” In advance of the album, Cantrell was featured in the new documentary, Nashville 2.0: The Rise of Americana, which premiered Friday, November 22, 2013 as part of the 2013 PBS Arts Fall Festival. Laura’s fascinating career path to date has included a spell as a VP on Wall Street, a radio DJ and a contributor to the New York Times and www.VanityFair.com.
In addition to her 2000 debut Not The Tremblin’ Kind, which pioneering British disc Jockey John Peel described as “…my favorite record of the last ten years, possibly my life,” Cantrell has released When The Roses Bloom Again (2002), Humming By The Flowered Vine (2005), and Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music (2011).

Produced by Cantrell and Mark Nevers, No Way There from Here was recorded in Nashville’s acclaimed Beech House studios and features writing collaborations with Tracyanne Campbell (Camera Obscura), Amy Allison and Franklin Bruno, as well as guest musicians Jim Lauderdale, Kenny Vaughan, Michael Cerveris, Caitlin Rose, William Tyler (Lambchop), Paul Niehaus (Lambchop, Calexico) and Paul Burch. Of making the new album, Cantrell says, “Each recording project presents a fresh question to answer about what you’re doing and why. For this record, where I’ve worked for the first time with mostly my own songs and point of view, the pressure I’ve felt is to find what suits each song and do it justice. It was challenging and exciting because I have had to really define the sound.”

The playing on No Way There From Here superbly backs the main attraction, Cantrell’s wistful yet optimistic vocals. As she sings in “Driving Down Your Street”, Laura’s heart is “out on the breeze” inviting us to share in her fears, hopes and dreams. There is a quiet strength in her vulnerability. It’s that yin yang of strength and vulnerability that makes the record so appealing, a record that will cause your radio audience to turn up the volume rather than change the channel. “You know what I mean.”

Recommended radio tracks:
All The Girls Are Complicated
Driving Down Your Street
When It Comes To You
Can’t Wait
Starry Skies

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