DESCRIPTION:
In going back thru years of artists I've taped, I sometimes come across a show or artist that I had forgotten I'd enjoyed so much.
Laura Love is one of them and I am glad to be able to share this performance......
Her take on Amazing Grace as the opener will surely pull you in for the ride.....

Bio :
Her sound has been alternately described as folk-funk, Afro-Celtic, or Hip-Appalachian, but if asked about her musical heritage, Love won't tell you joyful stories about the family sitting on the porch singing harmonies. As chronicled in her memoir, You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes (Hyperion, 2004), Love survived a childhood fraught with chaos, poverty and chronic instability in racially troubled Nebraska. Her mother, singer Winnie Winston, and father, jazz impresario Preston Love, never married. Winnie suffered horrible bouts of delusion which left her in and out of mental institutions all her life. Consequently, Laura and her sister spent their earliest years in orphanages, foster homes, convents and homeless shelters.
Love cuts an interesting figure, what with her Ani DiFranco-looks and a remarkable voice that's someplace between Tracy Chapman and Odetta--with a dash of scatting yodelese for extra spice. Love's originals are fresh and bracingly intelligent: she somehow injects new life into "Amazing Grace" by giving it a zydeco feel. Trad rarely sounds this contemporary.

Setlist :

Amazing Grace
Anyway
Less Is More
Sometimes Davey Wins
Mah Bootay
Stone Soul Picnic
Talk About Sufferin'
Givin' Way
Aha Me A Riddle
Mystery Train
Octoroon