{"id":999,"date":"2011-05-07T10:34:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T10:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/?p=999"},"modified":"2011-05-10T16:43:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T16:43:38","slug":"laura-cantrell-at-glee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/laura-cantrell-at-glee\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I Used To Be A Slut’: Laura Cantrell at Glee"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s an extended version of my review from today’s Nottingham Post.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a long wait. Six years since her last album of new songs, \u2018Humming By The Flowered Vine\u2019 and a wonderful Rescue Rooms show, Laura Cantrell is back, elegantly dressed in black.\u00a0 Her \u2018Kitty Wells\u2019 Dresses\u2019 tribute album has only one new song (the title track, a demo of which can be found here<\/a>) but is a welcome reminder of the 92 year old Queen of Country\u2019s career, which stretches back more than 70 years.\u00a0 Laura takes to the stage with a lovely \u2018Trains and Boats and Planes\u2019, then explains the delay. During the 2005 tour, she was, unknowingly, pregnant. Daughter Bella celebrates her fifth birthday later this month.<\/p>\n

Tonight, the hour and three quarter set is laced with eloquent commentary, not least about Kitty Wells, whose husband wrote many of her songs to fit the feisty persona she’d created. \u2018This song\u2019s called \u201cI don\u2019t Claim To Be An Angel\u201d’, Laura tells us. ‘If it’d been written today it\u2019d be \u201cI Used To Be A Slut\u201d.\u2019 Laura admits that she finds it easier to write about women in country music than to write about herself. Maybe, but she sing several new originals that sound great, not all about country icons, and has more than an album\u2019s worth ready to record – so we could be looking at her first album of all original songs. (You can find some of Laura’s new songs, along with many from her peers, at the Radio Free Song Club<\/a>, which she talked about).<\/p>\n

Cantrell\u2019s sweet voice is one of the best in the business and in her acoustic trio is beautifully backed by Mark Spencer and Julian Corrie.\u00a0 \u2018When The Roses Bloom Again\u2019 is played early while a sublime \u2018Bees\u2019 is the highlight of the show.\u00a0 A request filled encore includes ‘The Whiskey Makes You Sweeter; the great stalker song, \u201814th<\/sup> Street\u2019 (my request!), John Peel favourite \u2018Not The Tremblin\u2019 Kind\u2019 and the gorgeous \u2018Two Seconds\u2019, which is below.\u00a0 She promises to come back soon, when the new album’s out, but only if childcare allows.<\/p>\n

Laura Cantrell – Two Seconds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an extended version of my review from today’s Nottingham Post. It\u2019s been a long wait. Six years since her last album of new songs, \u2018Humming By The Flowered Vine\u2019 and a wonderful Rescue Rooms show, Laura Cantrell is back, elegantly dressed in black.\u00a0 Her \u2018Kitty Wells\u2019 Dresses\u2019 tribute album has only one new song (the title track, a demo of which can be found here) but is a welcome reminder of the 92 year old Queen of Country\u2019s career, which stretches back more than 70 years.\u00a0 Laura takes to the stage with a lovely \u2018Trains and Boats and Planes\u2019, then explains the delay. During the 2005 tour, she was, unknowingly, pregnant. Daughter Bella celebrates her fifth birthday later this month. Tonight, the hour and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}