| Laura Cantrell (June.05 issue) |
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| Written by Jeff Clark | |
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Page 4 of 4 Right, then it becomes acting. "Yeah, it started to feel kinda forced. And I was looking around, and admiring a lot of local musicians and writers here in New York, like Amy Allison and Amy Rigby, I'm big fans of both of them, and saw that they seemed to be able to balance it somehow. They had different influences in their music that didn't detract from or overshadow their own originality, and so I felt like that might be a good thing to shoot for." Many of the people you've played with are more from what you would call the independent rock and singer-songwriter scenes - Tony Maimone, John Flansburgh, Dave Schramm, Calexico. Do you think these people ‘get' what you're doing better than traditional country players would? Especially now that you're on Matador, it seems very likely that you'll be accepted more by fans of Cat Power and Yo La Tengo than you will be by fans of, say, Gretchen Wilson and Kenny Chesney. "Well, we'll see, I guess. I think we've been really lucky all along to connect with great music fans. I'm not sure if that's because of my music itself or because of my own sensibilities and I consider myself one of those people. But for instance, I'm sure there are some folks in the Yo La Tengo audience who are kids who just think Yo La's cool ‘cause they're on college radio and it's not that deep, and then there are other fans of Yo La who are real music fans, whether they are new ones or whether they are longtime fans, and I hope we get to connect with those people. And I feel like when we got our other opportunities, like opening for Elvis -- I mean, I throw that around all the time, because it was a big deal for me - but I'm sure some of his fans were like, ‘OK, enough with the girl country singer, it's boring!' But then were some really great, real interested music fans whose interest goes beyond genre or the records they loved in college or whatever, who we did connect with. And I feel like if we can keep amassing those people out there, then we'll be well set." |
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