Laura Cantrell, Humming by the Flowered Vine - 39m 55s

Tracks & Durations

1. 14th Street	3:19
2. What You Said	2:54
3. And Still	3:59
4. Khaki & Corduroy	4:30
5. Letters	4:54
6. California Rose	2:54
7. Wishful Thinking	2:55
8. Poor Ellen Smith	4:01
9. Bees	4:12
10. Old Downtown	6:12

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Review

Laura Cantrell has exceptional taste. One listen to her celebrated radio show "Radio Thrift Shop"on WFMU and you will know this instantly, as she mixes old school country and bluegrass with the best contemporary singer-songwriters. The cover art to this, her third album, is by the superlative artist Fred Tomaselli, and her choice of arcane, literate, and lovely cover songs is exquisite: a previously unreleased Lucinda Williams song ("Letters"), an obscure Appalachian murder ballad originally collected by her great-great aunt ("Poor Ellen Smith"), and a fabulous tune by singer-songwriter Emily Spray ("14th Street"). Of course, if good taste were all it took to be a great artist, we'd all be great artsists, right? Laura's not a crooner per se, but she has become an amazing singer, with delightful control over her voice. In fact, Cantrell sounds a lot like the long-lost, Tennessee-born sister to Linda Thompson, especially on the Dave Schramm-penned "And Still," and her own "Old Downtown." This is cosmic, American music, sung with subtlety and produced perfectly by JD Foster. -Mike McGonigal. Laura Cantrell's third album, Humming by the Flowered Vine, emerges into daunting company. Her debut, 2000's Not the Tremblin' Kind, was famously acclaimed by John Peel--who'd probably listened to more albums than anybody else--as "my favourite record of the last ten years, and possibly my life." The follow-up, 2002's When the Roses Bloom Again, was also widely, and rightly, hailed a classic. Humming by the Flowered Vine finds Cantrell understandably reluctant to tinker overmuch with a winning formula. Like its distinguished predecessors, it's a mix of Cantrell's own compositions and obscure cover versions which would only have appeared on the radar of a serious country enthusiast--Emily Spray's "14th Street," Jenifer Jackson's "What You Said," Dave Schramm's "And Still." If Cantrell does borrow from a big name, it's a previously unreleased song--in this case, a sublime version of Lucinda Williams's "Letters."

Humming by the Flowered Vine is a little more opulently arranged than previous albums. However, Cantrell's deceptively offhand, conversational voice remains an instantly recognisable and still treasurable idiosyncrasy, and her third album is a worthy addition to her canon. --Andrew MuellerThe follow-up to 2002's "When The Roses Bloom Again" is nothing less than masterful. Produced by JD Foster (Richard Buckner, Marc Ribot), the album features such stellar musicians as John Convertino and Paul Niehaus of Calexico, Amy Helm and Fiona McBain of Ollabelle, Jon Graboff, Mark Spencer, Dave Schramm, Jeremy Chatzky, and many more. Sad and sweet in all the right doses, Cantrell is one of the unique voices and minds in American music, and this third album shows the sort of poise and invention that we associate with the all-time greats, regardless of genre.

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Humming by the Flowered Vine

Tracks: 10, Disk length: 39m 36s (-1m 41s)

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