Laura Veirs Rocks the Smart Folk
Oct 27th, 2005 · Seattle-based singer and songwriter Laura Veirs has released a new album, Year of Meteors. It's the follow-up to 2004's Carbon Glacier, which was hailed as a masterful blend of pop, folk and country.
Oct 27th, 2005 · Seattle-based singer and songwriter Laura Veirs has released a new album, Year of Meteors. It's the follow-up to 2004's Carbon Glacier, which was hailed as a masterful blend of pop, folk and country.
Oct 11th, 2005 · Laura Veirs' New CD a Quirky 'Year of Meteors' October 11, 2005 · Although she has released five albums since 1999, singer-songwriter Laura Veirs remains largely unknown in the United States. Critic Tom Moon believes her new CD, Year of Meteors, will change that.
Aug 9th, 2005 · Born in Nashville, Laura Cantrell now lives in New York City, where she is a fixture on the local country music scene. The singer is making waves, as a performer and longtime "proprietress" of the Radio Thrift Shop on free-form station WFMU.
Jul 17th, 2005 · Laura Cantrell is a deejay specializing in hard-to-find recordings and a singer whose third CD is Humming by the Flowered Vine. She tells Liane Hansen about life as a performer, her role as a musical historian, and her decision to give up her day job on Wall Street.
Jul 17th, 2005 · First Lady Laura Bush has returned from visits to Botswana, South Africa, Tanzania and Rwanda in southern Africa. She flew there after last week's G8 summit, where world leaders pledged aid to help developing nations. Bush says she wanted to convey the level of suffering to the world.
Apr 21st, 2005 · Laura Canales, the Mexican-American singer known as "the Queen of Tejano," died Saturday from complications of gallbladder surgery. She was 50. Canales helped popularize Tejano, a style of folk music created along the Texas-Mexico border. Day to Day presents a tribute to Canales.
Apr 12th, 2005 · Revisiting Greenwich Village April 12, 2005 · Our commentator goes back to Greenwich Village to show his girlfriend Laura where he once stomped in his youth. His Yiddish comes back to him after encountering ghosts of his poetry past.
Apr 1st, 2005 · It's that age-old question: does money buy happiness? At the very least, can money help you make a good down payment on happiness? David talks money and happiness with Laura Rowley, author of Money and Happiness: A Guide to Living the Good Life.