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"Veirs' songs qualify as poems: careful, word-conscious, narrative, neither foggy nor overwritten, and tend to give you a take on regular life experience that you don't quite expect."
Part one of a double-header with Cotton Candy.
Freight Train [Elizabeth Cotten]
Nightingale
Laura Veirs
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Beautiful! Laura Veirs phones it in from Manhattan, NY while on tour away from Portland, OR. Phone trouble actually added some nice fuzz to complement the fitting Elizabeth Cotten cover- Laura's calling from a hotel, but it could be the porch outside your window.
"Veirs' songs qualify as poems: careful, word-conscious, narrative, neither foggy nor overwritten, and tend to give you a take on regular life experience that you don't quite expect."
Part one of a double-header with Cotton Candy.
Nadav Carmel, WMBR 05/22/2008
Songs
Wandering KindFreight Train [Elizabeth Cotten]
Nightingale