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: On my to-do list is a return trip to see Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks, one of the world’s foremost experts on vintage jazz and swing. Giordano is an expert arranger as well as bandleader, and I’m sure you’ve heard his music in Scorsese’s The Aviator, several Woody Allen films or the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. Giordano plays every Monday night at Sofia’s Club Cache downstairs at the Hotel Edison in tony Manhattan, so get your spats and fedora out and we’ll go knock back a few with the swells.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYQMsvL_QQM
