Laura Cantrell was born and raised in Nashville, but came to New York
City for college and never left.  She's not only a singer and
songwriter but a musicologist as well, serving as the proprietress as
The Radio Thrift Shop on WFMU.  Rolling Stone has called Laura "A
modern woman with an old-timey heart, with a voice pitched somewhere
between the bluesy realism of Lucinda Williams and the vintage
femininity of Kitty Wells."

Laura plays traditional country, alt-country and folk-rock as well.  The
title song from her debut album, Not The Trembling Kind, was written by
Jersey rocker George Usher.  She's also covered Gordon Lightfoot's
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.  Laura has opened for Elvis Costello and also for country music legend Charlie Louvin.

This time out
Laura's band includes Dave Schramm (guitarist for Yo La Tengo and later The Schramms), Jeremy Chatzky (bass player for Bruce
Springsteen's The Seeger Sessions), and Steve Goulding (drummer for
Graham Parker and The Rumour and The Mekons).   As she doesn't perform all that frequently at this point, it will be
well worth your while to see Laura tomorrow when she plays 92Y
Tribeca.  Opening for Laura will be Amy Allison.

Laura Cantrell, 92Y Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street (A or C Train to Canal
Street, exit the front of the train, and walk west to Hudson Street),
7pm (doors), 7:30 (show), $15.

 –Eliot Wagner