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Album Review: Laura Veirs – Temple Songs

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By Michelle Lindsey, Laura Veirs
| Highway Queens
Laura Veirs’s new album is the first she’s entirely recorded and produced herself and the first in four years since Found Light. Her garden studio is called ‘Temple of Bloom’ and this was where ‘Temple Songs’ was born, after living through a songwriting drought she has reframed as a ‘gathering phase’. The seeds of that work have grown into songs whose roots feel surprisingly strong.
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Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten Book Review

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By Laura Veirs, Mary Eisenhart
| Common Sense Media Verified
age 6+ Charming, artful bio celebrates singer, music, kindness. Parents need to know that Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten is an engaging introduction to the African American singer-songwriter who wrote the classic folk song "Freight Train" at age 11.
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On Writing & Music

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By Yo La Tengo, Laura Veirs, Maggie Smith
| Substack
Hi, Friend. I’m working on something new, which means making a new playlist. I’ll share more about the project when I can—I don’t want to scare the ideas away by talking about them too soon—but here are some of the artists I’m listening to: Andy Shauf, Sharon Van Etten, Nina Simone, Bright Eyes, Ezra Furman, Marianne Faithfull. If you’ve read You Could Make This Place Beautiful, you know I’m almost always listening to music, including when I write, so my books have their own soundtracks.
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