American Songwriter premieres Laura Cantrell duet

Perry Serpa and Laura Cantrell at The Kennel Recording Studio

The respected national magazine celebrates the musical pairing of Perry Serpa and noted country singer Laura Cantrell — and includes an audio player so you can hear the tune. Check it out.

Born in Nashville, TN, Laura Cantrell came to New York to attend Columbia College, and found that her abiding interest in country music helped her stay connected with her family roots. That interest was the motivation behind her long-running radio program on WFMU in Jersey City, NJ, “The Radio Thrift Shop.”

In her ten-year recording career, Cantrell has released three acclaimed albums: Not The Tremblin’ Kind, When The Roses Bloom Again, and Humming By The Flowered Vine. She has toured extensively in the United Kingdom, Europe and Ireland, and was a favorite of pioneering British disc jockey John Peel, who called her 2000 album Not The Tremblin’ Kind “my favorite record of the last ten years, possibly my life.” Cantrell recorded several Peel sessions for the BBC from 2000-2004 and appeared on the first Peel Day program on Radio One commemorating the first anniversary of Peel’s death.

Last spring, Cantrell released Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs Of The Queen of Country Music, a recording she made in honor of one of her heroines, the great Kitty Wells. A meditation on femininity in country music, the set takes its title from an original song written in tribute to Wells.

At present, Cantrell is at work on her fourth album of original material.

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