Showing posts with label Laura Veirs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laura Veirs. Show all posts

Friday, July 26, 2013

Laura Veirs

Last time I caught up with Laura Veirs, she was hugely pregnant with her first child but still managing a tour comprehensive enough to include Northampton, MA...it was all to support the really lovely July Flame, another of her excellent but (I think( insufficiently appreciated albums. She is very bright and eloquent and has a beautiful voice and a way with melody...she's married to Tucker Martine, a talented West Coast producer who frames her songs in striking and unexpected ways.

So anyway, Ms. Veirs has another album, the first since her collection of children's music, and it's wonderful. My favorite song is "That Alice" a rather raw, rather rocking tribute to Alice Coltrane (it is volume two, after "Carole Kane" in her series of tributes to obscure but excellent female musicians). But "Sun Songs" is good, too.
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My Laura Veirs interview and live show review got mangled by the Blurt archival system, but check them out if you can get past the formatting issues.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

So long for a bit

I'm headed down to NYC for a few days, not sure if I'll be posting much (but maybe, there's WIFI at the hotel).

In the meantime, that Laura Veirs show review ran yesterday at Blurt.

Monday, February 15, 2010

Laura Veirs live


Went to see Laura Veirs last night and enjoyed her set, leaning heavily on July Flame but also including songs from Saltbreakers, some older stuff and one Fleetwood Mac cover. It was a lovely evening. She let two of her three band members perform solo, the violinist Alex Guy and the instrument-switcher Nelson Kampf who did the folksinger thing, then invited a friend up for some electro-pop a la Bobby Birdman.

So anyway, pretty good night and there will be more later at Blurt, but look at the photo. Omigod, is she ever pregnant!

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Laura Veirs

My first interview of the year with the adorable, very smart and slightly geeky Laura Veirs runs today at Blurt.
Lush, natural, organic - you might think that Laura Veirs' July Flame, her seventh full-length, came easily to the Portland songwriter. Its melodies are caressingly warm, the images of plant life and summertime, the mood tranquil and unhurried. Still, let other musicians sit patiently and wait for inspiration. Veirs works at her music, in a methodical, disciplined way. She is, for instance, the only musician we know who keeps a practice chart in her studio and grades herself on a one-to-five scale for her efforts.
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http://www.blurt-online.com/features/view/534/