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| Americansongwriter |
 Folk singer Laura Cantrell is set to release her fifth studio album, Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music on May 17. The covers record celebrates the singer-songwriter who paved the way for female country artists, who is now the oldest living member of the Country Music Hall of Fame at 91.“Sadly, the casual country music fan of today doesn’t know Wells’ story beyond ‘It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels,’” Cantrell said. “In putting together this recording, I wanted to include some material written for Wells by her husband Johnnie Wright – of Johnnie & Jack and The Tennessee Mountain Boys. I wanted to represent her range – the songs specifically written from a woman’s point of view like ‘I Don’t Claim To Be An Angel,’ the classic ballads, the cheating and heart songs that make up her body of work.” Based in New York, the Nashville native returned home to record the album with Mark Nevers on production duties (Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire). Across ten tracks, she attempts to get to the heart of Wells’s career, including a song inspired by her legacy. Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music follows Cantrell’s 2008 album Trains and Boats and Planes....full text |
| Bbc |
| Laura Cantrell is no purist. The sweet-voiced singer has covered New Order and even dabbled in electronica. But the history that underlies this wonderful collection is the thing that draws her talents most keenly. It was history, after all, that made Cantrell such an exhilarating novelty when a tenacious Scottish label unearthed her in 2000. Her debut release was plain startling in the era of Garth Brooks and the Dixie Chicks: a quietly wholehearted homage to the simpler virtues of 40s and 50s country music, executed with devotion and grace. Later albums found Cantrell stretching out into poppier byways. But she has always been a historian as well as a musician and DJ, enthusing radio listeners with the exploits of long-gone musical heroines. And in Kitty Wells – the first female country star to top the chart, and the first to release a long-playing record – she has the perfect model for her own well-mannered radicalism. Wells topped the charts in 1952 with It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels (an answer song to Hank Thomson’s chauvinistic Wild Side of Life), and she was known for attitude as well as tunes. Cantrell’s tribute was recorded in the Nashville of her own youth, emulating the wistful, pragmatic persona Wells perfected on once-shocking songs like I Don’t Claim to Be an Angel and I Gave My Wedding Dress Away. With sidemen including Chris Scruggs and Chuck Mead from BR549 and Paul Niehaus of Calexico, the 10-song album emulates 50s production values. It takes great confidence, this; just a single voice keening over ding-dong bass, pit-a-pat drums and elegant pedal steel, and Cantrell carries it off with heart as well as charm. There’s a quiet authority in the no-frills purity of her lovely voice that echoes the mix of strength and vulnerability projected by Wells....full text |
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| Laura Cantrell is no purist. The sweet-voiced singer has covered New Order and even dabbled in electronica. But the history that underlies this wonderful collection is the thing that draws her talents most keenly.It was history, after all, that made Cantrell such an exhilarating novelty when a tenacious Scottish label unearthed her in 2000. Her debut release was plain startling...full text |
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