Tuesday 19 August 2008

Laura Cantrell

�Trains and Boats and Planes� (Diesel Only, digital EP): B

Beguiling country chanteuse Cantrell returns after a three-year infract with a six-track digital EP that delivers on its transportation-minded title. After starting with the Burt Bacharach-Hal David title cut, Cantrell hop aboard Roger Miller�s �Train of Life,� Gordon Lightfoot�s �Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald� and John Hartford�s �Howard Hughes� Blues.� Before ending with Merle Haggard�s sublime �Silver Wings,� she delivers the set�s highlight and the track to download: New Order�s �Love Vigilantes� transformed into a memorable lay. (Appearing Wednesday at Club Passim, Cambridge, and Thursday at the Iron Horse Pub, Northampton.)







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