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Free MP3: Laura Cantrell - "Kitty Wells Dresses"

When Laura Cantrell received the invitation in 2009 to put together a musical program for a Country Music Hall of Fame exhibit, the singer-songwriter received more than just a few minutes in the spotlight.  read more

Awesome of the Day: Radio Free Song Club

There’s something wonderfully ambitious about the Radio Free Song Club, a new podcast created by singer/songwriter Kate Jacobs and WFMU DJ Nicholas Hill. They’ve challenged a handful of veteran songwriters to record a new song every month to debut on the show. The “club” now includes Dave Schramm (The Schramms, Yo La Tengo), Peter Blegvad (Golden Palominos), Jody Harris, Victoria Williams, Laura Cantrell, Freedy Johnston, Peter Holsapple (the db’s) and Freakwater’s Janet Beveridge Bean and Catherine Ann Irwin. Shramm serves as the one-man house band, along with guests David Mansfield, Syd Straw and Beth Orton....  read more

Awesome of the Day: Radio Free Song Club

There’s something wonderfully ambitious about the Radio Free Song Club, a new podcast created by singer/songwriter Kate Jacobs and WFMU DJ Nicholas Hill. They’ve challenged a handful of veteran songwriters to record a new song every month to debut on the show. The “club” now includes Dave Schramm (The Schramms, Yo La Tengo), Peter Blegvad (Golden Palominos), Jody Harris, Victoria Williams, Laura Cantrell, Freedy Johnston, Peter Holsapple (the db’s) and Freakwater’s Janet Beveridge Bean and Catherine Ann Irwin. Shramm serves as the one-man house band, along with guests David Mansfield, Syd Straw and Beth Orton....  read more

Chasing Ghosts on the Airwaves

It turns out that Laura Cantrell isn’t the only member of her family to move to New York from Tennessee for a radio career. “I was sort of shocked, thinking that my … experience was unique to my family,” laughs singer/songwriter Cantrell when asked about her great-great aunt Ethel Park Richardson—a folksong collector and radio-show pioneer whose life eerily parallels her own. Both hail from Tennessee, both became enamored with Appalachian folkways, and both ended up in New York City with radio shows devoted to preservation of this music. So Cantrell offered a tribute to Richardson with an obscure...  read more

Laura Cantrell

It turns out that Laura Cantrell isn’t the only member of her family to move to New York from Tennessee for a radio career.  read more

Matador Signs Laura Cantrell

Matador Records has announced its signing of acclaimed artist and radio personality Laura Cantrell to a worldwide recording agreement. The Nashville-born, New York-based "proprietress" of WFMU's long-running Radio Thrift Shop is currently working on the follow-up to her 2002 release When the Roses Bloom Again. Cantrell's two previous albums were released by Diesel Only Records in the U.S. and Shoeshine/Spit & Polish in the U.K. Over the past four years, she has opened U.S. tours for Elvis Costello and Joan Baez, appeared on the Grand Ole Opry, the Newport Folk Festival, and the Late Show with Conan O'Brien, recorded...  read more