Laura Cantrell

Singer/songwriter Laura Cantrell hit the international music scene in 2000 with Not the Tremblin' Kind, a debut album that showcased her bright, clear, and affecting vocals, literate songwriting, and superb taste in musicians and fellow songwriters. She followed a rather unusual path to become an Americana favorite: she moved from Tennessee to New York City, studied law and accounting in college, and juggled a career in finance with a busy sideline as a musician and disc jockey. Cantrell hasn't always made music a career priority, preferring to work when inspiration hits rather than follow the traditional album-tour-repeat cycle of many artists, and this has helped keep her music fresh and confident; the nine-year gap between 2014's No Way There from Here and 2023's Just Like a Rose: The Anniversary Sessions is barely discernible in the final product.