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	Laura Veirs: Year of Meteors: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Besides, Veirs needs no further distinction: despite the justifiable comparisons with artists past and present, she has developed a musical style that is maybe not groundbreaking, but is at least highly personal and distinctively expressive.
		Veirs really doesn't need much in the way of accompaniment: the primary components of her music are voice and guitar.
		Veirs is maybe the gazillionth iteration of the quiet voice and plucked guitar, but she serves as a potent reminder how variable and compelling that combination can be.
	pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/v/veirs_laura/year-of-meteors.shtml (472 words)

	Laura Veirs interview - Triste Magazine
		Laura Veirs: It's mostly self-taught, but I've learned an awful lot from bandmates over the years, but I did take lessons for six months from this guy in Seattle and I learned tons about country blues styles and that alternating thumb on the bass note and then using the fingers to pick the melody.
		Laura Veirs: I first met him in 2000 when we recorded that CD the red one - The Triumphs and Travails of Orphan Mae - I guess that was pretty soon after I first became interested in recording and doing music at a serious level.
		Laura Veirs: Each person is their own person, so it's silly to use labels, but have to use language to get around that and navigate around that and give people information.
	www.triste.co.uk /lveirs.htm (2981 words)

	laura veirs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Laura’s first musical memory is that of her dad singing her to sleep with old American folk songs.
		Laura first started playing guitar at the age of 19 when she was at Carleton College in rural Minnesota.
		Laura returned to finish out her college degree later that year but then moved to Seattle, where her brother was studying oceanography.
	www.sacksco.com /roster/lauraveirs/lauraveirs_bio.html (1021 words)

	Laura Veirs: Carbon Glacier: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Laura Veirs' first album, Troubled by the Fire, was a beguiling infant of a record; a slow hug of furnace-warmth and lilting grace that reveled in romance and lovestruck simplicity, striding down a similar, country-flecked path to songwriters such as Gillian Welch and Lucinda Williams.
		However, on this follow-up, Veirs treads a vastly different path, producing an album of opaque, wintered laments that evoke the cold, jagged landscape of the Colorado Rockies that formed this Seattle-based songwriter's childhood.
		As Veirs' voice reaches its angel-sweet peak on the chorus to "Rapture", a strange, descending vibraphone emerges, conjuring an air of stargazed self-discovery.
	pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/v/veirs_laura/carbon-glacier.shtml (418 words)

	Laura Veirs: Year of Meteors - PopMatters Music Review
		Despite the fact that Veirs says this album is about the music industry — though you'd never know it — I'm going to stick my neck out a little and call this her loved-up collection, with the meteor also a stand-in for her heart.
		Furthermore, Veirs has ceased treating her song lyrics as the polished statue at the centre of a serious portrait, allowing herself up to embellish melodies with some na, na, nas and suchlike; that which would have seemed totally out of place on the stillness of the last album is welcoming, addictive, and carefree here.
		Veirs pays for this relaxing of focus with songs that occasionally outstay the shelf life of their melodies, and even the frequent high points here rarely hit with the cold incision of her last album.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/v/veirslaura-yearofmeteors.shtml (789 words)

	Win Tickets to Laura Veirs & The Tortured Souls.... - dublin - music
		Laura Veirs and The Tortured Souls, one of the hottest acts on the American music scene, play Whelans on the 20th of September.
		Veirs captured one of her intimate café style performances on her debut album, Laura Veirs and wrote a song cycle about the lives of trouble women with The Triumphs and Travails of Orphan Mae.
		Laura Veirs was joined by The Tortured Souls for her next album, Troubled by Fire with Karl Blau on guitar, Steve Moore on keyboards and Tucker Martine on drums and guest appearances by guitarist Bill Frisell, saxophonist Amy Denio and bassist Fred Chalenor.
	www.dublinks.com /index.cfm/loc/1/pt/0/spid/1BA4F0F9-71B4-4332-8CB2C7FB8553750C.htm (352 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Veirs had spent most of 2004 touring in support of the hauntingly beautiful Carbon Glacier, her breakthrough effort and Nonesuch debut.
		Troubled by the Fire was not officially Veirs’ debut, however; she had self-released two albums, The Triumphs and Travails of Orphan Mae (2001) and Laura Veirs (1999) that had garnered her local press and radio attention.
		Veirs was on a collegiate geological expedition in the desert of Northwest China when she had an epiphany, realizing that her future would be in singing, writing, and playing the guitar.
	www.fanaticpromotion.com /current/laura_year.html (1247 words)

	Laura Veirs - dublin music - dublin folk
		Laura Veirs was born and raised in Colorado Springs and spent her youth enthralled by the Rocky Mountains.
		Her debut album, Laura Veirs is a live recording that captures a solo performance of Veir's quite sensitive songs.
		Veirs released the album herself and the record catches all the ambience of an intimate coffee house performance with songs like “Outside Bud's Jazz Records” and “American Way”.
	www.dublinks.com /index.cfm/loc/16/pt/0/spid/AF16D094-F4DF-4298-981C72A6B852A178.htm (379 words)

	BBC - Norfolk Music - Laura Veirs in Norwich
		American singer-songwriter Laura Veirs performed songs from her critically acclaimed third album in Norwich to a hushed audience.
		To begin with, Veirs appeared nervous and the stage seemed to almost swallow her diminutive frame.
		Veirs' music might be set almost entirely in cold and desolate landscapes, but I left the gig feeling warm and alive.
	www.bbc.co.uk /norfolk/music/gigs/laura_veirs_arts.shtml (640 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Clearly suffering from nerves and understandably flustered (this is the first gig of her European tour) by some technical problems, Laura Veirs took time to comment on the peculiar look of the venue.
		Veirs' new album, Year of Meteors, which she mined thoroughly tonight, is less downbeat and more, well, fun.
		Veirs played the wonderful "Fire Snakes" (her standout song on the new album, with a gorgeous use of strings reminiscent of the best of The Magnetic Fields), the catchy new single "Galaxies" and the slightly batty "Spelunking" back to back.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /music/reviews/article315205.ece (626 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Northwest Recordings: Laura Veirs, from Seattle to Europe and back
		Hiding in the shadows between folk, pop and alt-country, Laura Veirs' sound is difficult to categorize and hard to shake; her full, invigorating songs stay with you, running around your brain like mini-movies.
		On the album Veirs uses the vast Pacific northwest from the Rocky Mountains to the icy Pacific Ocean as a backdrop for personal fears, longings and memories." Another U.K. publication suggested "Laura Veirs might be the bridge between the alt-country ghetto and the Sheryl Crow-revering mainstream."
		Veirs is currently in Europe again, returning for a Bumbershoot concert before resuming her international tour.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2002004709_nw15.html (935 words)

	The Stranger - Music - Feature - Where the Energy Is
		Veirs is describing the tour stop her band made recently in Oklahoma City.
		Any touring musician can appreciate Veirs' sanguine attitude toward the performance; sometimes it's the nights when no one shows up that prove to be the most rewarding.
		Laura Veirs moved to Seattle in 1997, after having attended college in Minnesota, where she studied geology and Chinese and played in a punk band.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=19795 (711 words)

	BBC - Folk & Country Review - Laura Veirs, The Triumphs and Travails of Orphan Mae
		Laura Veirs, The Triumphs and Travails of Orphan Mae
		Veirs' slightly spooked voice conveys a strong sense of place, especially when she sings about her beloved American Northwest wilderness...
		Even this early on in her career, Veirs' slightly spooked voice conveys a strong sense of place, especially when singing about her beloved wilderness in the American Northwest.
	www.bbc.co.uk /music/folkcountry/reviews/lauraveirs_orphan_mae.shtml (516 words)

	WERS.org :: 88.9FM :: Emerson College
		In Laura Veirs's case, her latest album, Year of Meteors, succeeds at celebrating one girl's obsession with nature and folk music.
		Laura stayed away from the planes in a hometown known for its Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
		In 2004, Veirs stuck to a more folk-oriented approach on Carbon Glacier, an album that sounds as chilling as her beloved mountains.
	www.wers.org /reviews/index.asp?page=11&show=1 (221 words)

	laura veirs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LAURA VEIRS’ YEAR OF METEORS RELEASED IN U.S. “Her lyrics are full of vivid phrases that often decline the demands of predictable meter and rhythmThe album is full of lovely and mysterious songs, some spiky with guitar noise and some propelled by graceful sideways grooves.”
		Veirs is clearly moving in the right direction, adding new tones and twists without forgetting her simple flair for heart—tugging beauty.
		Veirs makes some of the most original music in the hazy space between folk, country and indie rock.
	www.sacksco.com /roster/lauraveirs/lauraveirs_rls.html (557 words)

	CD Baby: LAURA VEIRS: Troubled by the Fire
		Laura's third album and first one to be released in the UK by Bella Union, in 2003.
		well this time laura crafted something so different that you can't go by labels blending country folk and a little jazz and a style of writing that can't be put into words laura veirs is becoming the best singer no one on radio plays.
		laura is like summer time you can listen to all the time so go grab this one and all her goodys.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/veirs2?cdbaby=767fc6c85a3ad79078de94ca66dba4ad (274 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Carbon Glacier: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Now resident in Seattle, Veirs uses images of the Washington winter and the chilly depths of Puget Sound and the north Pacific to relate her feelings of hope and fear, both as an artist and a human.
		Laura Viers enunciates every word with diamond sharp clarity and her vocals are always high in the mix.
		Laura Veirs, the exquisite breadth that she is already showing -from Troubled By Fire to Carbon Glacier- and her growth as a performer, are remarkable, however young, however "untenured" she may be.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001BH16O (1328 words)

	Amazon.com: Year of Meteors: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Seattle-based singer-songwriter Laura Veirs calls her 2005 Nonesuch release Year of Meteors "a road record." "It doesn't sound like one," she says, "but it is." Veirs had spent most of 2004 touring in support of the hauntingly beautiful Carbon Glacier, her breakthrough effort and Nonesuch debut.
		Laura is more deadpan in her vocal delivery (which I guess is why so many listeners thought of Ms.
		Had Laura Veirs never picked up a guitar she still probably would have become a poet, performing in front of small audiences in coffee houses all over her home state of Seattle.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000A14OEC?v=glance (1395 words)

	village voice > music > Laura Veirs's Carbon Glacier by Mikael Wood
		The lesser is "The Cloud Room," which probes music's ethereality and timelessness—there's a seagull, and stormy weather, and a drunk guy playing piano in the bar on the 12th floor of Seattle's Camlin Hotel.
		But Veirs, a sort of low-powered Cat Power, plucks out her electric-guitar arpeggios over a heavy beat punctuated with handclaps and swooning strings, so she resists floating through the air with flowers in her hair.
		Laura Veirs plays the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center February 24.
	www.villagevoice.com /music/0508,wood1,61321,22.html (164 words)

	Laura Veirs : Carbon Glacier - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Laura Veirs' Seattle is not a city plagued by rain and enormous bowls of coffee; rather, it's a metropolitan snow globe trapped in a solid sheet of ice.
		The 13 songs that make up her fourth album (and Nonesuch debut), Carbon Glacier, rely on Veirs' free associating motor-mouth imagery to dig them out the tundra, and it's a testament to her skills as an interpreter that the majority of them break through.
		Veirs' hypnotic voice cuts through it all with deadpan sincerity -- she's equally capable of pitch-perfect beauty ("Lonely Angel Dust") or tightrope uneasiness ("Icebound Stream") -- that comes off somewhere between Nina Nastasia and Jolie Holland.
	www.artistdirect.com /store/artist/album/0,,2967442,00.html (320 words)

	fos \| laura veirs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Barn is not only where Laura gives guitar and banjo lessons to help pay the rent, but where she does her writing.
		LAURA: (laughs) I got one of those the week before one of my biggest shows, when I tried out for Nonesuch.
		LAURA: What happened was, I had asked an old friend in New York to do the artwork.
	www.fearofspeed.net /lauraveirs.html (4085 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| Pop CDs of the week: Laura Veirs and more
		When Laura Veirs sings of "cool water in surround sound" she could well be quoting a review of her third, breakthrough album, Carbon Glacier (2004), which plunged critics into torrents of poetry in an effort to convey the elemental tug of her quietly mighty and exhilaratingly modern vision of the vast American landscape.
		Her first album for Nonesuch begins gently, with a simple acoustic guitar riff threaded with a jazzy double bass as the starkly voiced Veirs sings of the mermaids waving as she washes off salt to stand at a "mud crusted altar".
		It is on the second and most expansive song, Galaxies, that Veirs and her backing band (the Tortured Souls) really blasts off into outer space, through scorch of guitar chords, gloriously wavering synth sounds and a propulsive beat.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=P8&xml=/arts/2005/08/27/bmpopcds27.xml (2171 words)

	CD Baby: LAURA VEIRS: The Triumphs and Travails of Orphan Mae
		This album was first self-released by Laura in 2001 and later re-released in the UK in 2005 by Bella Union.
		The very first song i heard from Laura Veirs was 'Jailhouse fire' and i remember thinking 'Wow, that's original.
		Laura Veirs songs generate a very special atmosphere to which i am very sensitive; i have to add that i'm french and that i don't understand english perfectly, so i'm more sensitive to the mood of miss Veirs's songs than to the real meaning of words.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/veirs (631 words)

	Laura Veirs
		And, finally, it’s a band record: a fertile collaboration between Veirs and her studio band, the Tortured Souls (who often play live with her)—Steve Moore (piano, organs), Karl Blau (bass, guitar, vocals), and producer Tucker Martine (drums, percussion, treatments).
		John Richards of Seattle radio station KEXP called Orphan Mae “a gorgeous album of dark indie-folk rooted in traditional balladry…with some exciting experimental effects.” Her earlier self-titled disc was as raw as she would ever be; it was recorded in three hours with just voice and guitar.
		Veirs, who was raised in Colorado Springs, had studied geology (along with Mandarin Chinese) as a college student in rural Minnesota, and had always been fascinated with nature.
	www.billions.com /artists/lauraveirs (1105 words)

	Laura Veirs: Year Of Meteors (2005): Reviews
		Veirs hasn’t given us anything strikingly original with Year Of Meteors, but there’s something to be said for working within the confines of a given genre and excelling at what that entails.
		Where it doesn't is when it messes with two of Veirs' greatest assets: her haunted lyrics and haunting, Cat-Power-trapped-in-a-deep-well voice.
		Laura Veirs inherits the legacy of pop pseudo-intellectualism crafted for mass consumption.
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/veirslaura/yearofmeteors (689 words)

	Walmart.com - Music Downloads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Veirs found work as an ESL teacher and a gardener to support her music career, which she launched in the late 90s with a DIY approach brought about by the difficulty in securing record company interest.
		The latter release, The Triumphs and Travails Of Orphan Mae, was of particular note for the way Veirs skilfully wove together stories about women of all ages pushed to and sometimes over the limits of their endurance.
		Veirs recorded her third album with help from celebrated guitarist Bill Frisell and her live touring band, the Tortured Souls, featuring Karl Blau (guitar/vocals), Steve Moore (keyboards/vocals) and Tucker Martine (drums).
	musicdownloads.walmart.com /catalog/servlet/AlbumServlet;jsessionid=?id=68045 (370 words)

	laura veirs
		This second album from Laura Veirs, already hailed by many as the finest singer-songwriter album of the year, sees this immensly gifted artist take a considerable leap and bound away from the straighter Country-fied stylings of her debut “Troubled by the Fire”.
		This is the first album from Laura Veirs, after last year’s “Carbon Glacier” was widely acclaimed as some of the finest singer-songwriter work in 2004.
		The countrified influence on Laura’s music is much more overt on this excellent album, although her fragile, vulnerable voice and often inspired use of surprising instrumentation makes this much more than a straightforward Americana album.
	www.boomkat.com /artist.cfm?a=2951 (307 words)

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