Laura Cantrell

Simple but devastatingly effective traditional country from one of the genre's smartest modern operators. Can you listen to "The Whiskey Makes You Sweeter" and not smile? Late, great British radio DJ John Peel called this his "favorite album of the last 10 years and possibly my life."

As the host of the best country radio show in the New York area, the weekly Radio Thrift
Shop on WFMU (91.1-FM), Laura Cantrell plays the kind of records - honest and simple, dirty
and sweet -- that Nashville used to make. Now she's made one of her own. Cantrell's debut
album, Not the Tremblin' Kind, is an austere beauty, a record of such graceful hill-country
minimalism -- sturdy acoustic picking, whispered rhythm, tart electric and pedal... More >