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: I was back in Glasgow and Edinburgh on tour this year and was glad to see friends, hear music and eat a pub meal at Sloan’s in Glasgow in the middle of the afternoon. Something about the weather, which is still green in winter and blustery and temperamental in summer, makes you want to put that piece of tablet right in your teacup. It is funny and endearing to me that my strange country music career began when I left Nashville for New York and got serious after Shoeshine Records in Glasgow put out my first album. An odd trajectory, but I’m glad that it means I’ll keep having a reason to come back. A second home.
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