Laura Cantrell Looks Back and Reaches Forward Professional

There’s an unerring sense of both comfort and vision in the music country singer Laura Cantrell has made over the last two decades. The singer came up in the New York City alt-country scene of the late 1990s and early 2000s, and from the start had a subdued sound and manner that was both reverential and slyly subversive. Always balancing her own tunes with lovingly rendered covers from country music’s past, she comes across as the ultimate country scholar, lending an almost critical perspective on emotional interiority as much as she does on members of the Grand Ole Opry.