There are some people who say that Linda Thompson is the greatest female rock singer alive. I’m not one of them-partly because I think her music is too tied to the British folk tradition to be called “rock,” and partly because I’m wary of making grandiose pronouncements about the relative worth of musicians. But I Read More
Cantrell’s Swell
Near the end of our meeting at Grill on the Park, Laura Cantrell eyed the elegant fabric of her pale pink twin set and admitted that she’d hesitated about coming to an interview dressed as she was. “Some people have preconceived notions about how a country singer should look,” she said a little Read More
A while back, Beth Orton, the winningly gloomy 28-year-old English folkie, managed the odd trick of somehow impressing ravers. “Once Beth Orton was indie strummer, chemical sister and- yawn -The Comedown Queen,” The Face recently explained in its February issue, referring to Ms. Orton’s calming appearances on the Chemical Brothers’ manic Exit Planet Dust and Read More
