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Track Listing: Rolling Stone Magazine As the host of the best country radio show in the New York area, the weekly Radio Thrift Shop on
WFMU (91.1-FM), Laura Cantrell plays the kind of records - honest and simple, dirty and sweet -- that
Nashville used to make. Now she's made one of her own.
Cantrell's debut album, Not the Tremblin' Kind,
is an austere beauty, a record of such graceful hill-country minimalism -- sturdy acoustic picking,
whispered rhythm, tart electric and pedal steel guitar -- that you can hear every ounce of sorrow and
steel in Cantrell's strong, direct voice. Against Jon Graboff's mandolin tears in "Two Seconds," she
projects the hurt of endless waiting ("Two seconds of your love/Is all I need of you/Two seconds of
your time/That's enough to say we're through") with such clarity that you can hear the sound of time
running out.
As a singer, Cantrell -- who was actually born and raised in Nashville -- is a modern woman
with an old-timey heart, with a voice pitched somewhere between the bluesy realism of Lucinda Williams
and the vintage femininity of Kitty Wells. And while Cantrell wrote only four of the twelve songs on
Tremblin' Kind, she moves through these stories like she's lived them. Her delivery in "The Whiskey
Makes You Sweeter" crackles with the electricity of regret ("If I'd quit drinking sooner/I wouldn't
have gone that far"). And in her own "Queen of the Coast," Cantrell relates the story of an aging
country starlet, looking back on her life of long miles and sacrifice, with a perfect sadness, gentle
and candid.
On the radio, Cantrell plays country music the way it used to be. On Not the Tremblin' Kind,
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"Since migrating from Cambridge,
Mass to Nashville some three decades ago, Mark Brine has carved out a strong
reputation as an uncompromising traditionalist on the country music scene which
has made him one of the elder statesmen of Americana."
-- Shaun Dale, Cosmik Debris Magazine
"I could listen to him sing all night long … he does a good job that boy does." -- Roy Acuff, Ernest Tubb Midnight Jamboree "A fine young man who I think has a great future." -- Hank Snow, Grand Ole Opry "Brine could easily have been added to the cast of 'O Brother, Where Art Thou' without raising an eyebrow. He belongs to that group of artists whose individuality and quirkiness consign them to the periphery of what's commercially viable. But God bless him for not just being another cog in the musical wheel." -- James McSweeney, Flyin Shoes |
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"Brine writes wonderful story songs about
ordinary people and ordinary places. To tell these stories, Mark has a voice that is
as comfortable as a favourite coat."
-- Pete Smith, Country Music Round Up "I think what makes Mark Brine such a gifted songwriter/storyteller is the fact that he seems to be such an obvious fan of many genres of music. He's someone who is like a sponge when it comes to reintegrating influences into his own work." -- Gail Worley, Ink 19 "His career has pursued the path of a truly independent artist - someone who follows his soul and does things his own way … his ability to write and produce has made his name synonymous with quality." -- Doug Floyd, AltCountryTab.com ©2004 Mark Brine Music. All rights reserved. |