Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs Of The Queen Of Country Music is the fifth full-length from New York City singer/songwriter Laura Cantrell, and as you probably deduced from the album’s title, the LP pays tribute to country music’s first female star. Cantrell recorded the 10-track record in Nashville, the city where both she and Wells were born. Aside from covering some of Wells’ most loved songs, Cantrell kicks off the album with the title track, a song she co-wrote with Amy Allison. Cantrell will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with her.
Cantrell: Being a Cancer, I’m all about the houses. When I was a child, summer vacation meant my dad packing us in the station wagon for some history-themed road trip. As an adult, I’ve been able to combine that urge to peek inside someone else’s habitat with an interest in musicians and the places they reside. There are a few gems out there including the trippy Louis Armstrong House Museum, in Corona, Queens, with its African-themed living room décor and pictures of Pops hanging on the stoop with the neighborhood kids. Cool also to see W.C. Handy’s log-cabin home in Florence, Ala., and I’m ashamed to admit that the Loretta Lynn Ranch (and haunted mansion) in Hurricane Mills, Tenn., is still on my wish list.
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