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Laura Cantrell pays tribute to Kitty Wells

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May 4, 2011 Updated May 20, 2011

With a voice that reminds us of a bygone era, it's perhaps fitting that Laura Cantrell should choose to release a tribute album to the Queen of Country, Kitty Wells.

According to reports, Laura Cantrell's latest release, Kitty Wells Dresses, took shape a few years ago after she performed in a showcase honouring the iconic country star.

Kitty Wells was the first female country singer to top the charts, and at the age of 91, is the oldest living member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. Her songs, including the 1952 hit It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels, helped pave the way for the likes of Dolly Parton and Tammy Wynette.

Cantrell explained to one UK newspaper ,"I’ve been a Kitty Wells fan since childhood, inheriting my regard for her music from my father’s family from West Tennessee. Her music is great and it's wrong it seems that it is not better remembered today. I always responded to the fundamental feeling in Wells’ singing, her way of sounding both emotional and restrained at once, a really affecting combination.”

The album was recorded in Nashville with producer Mark Nevers (Lambchop) and features musicians Chris Scruggs (M Ward), Fats Kaplin (Kane Welch Kaplin), Paul Niehaus (Calexico).

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Laura Cantrell (born <abbr title="circa">c. </abbr> 1967) is a country singer-songwriter and DJ from Nashville, Tennessee. She used to present a weekly country and old-time music radio show on WFMU in New Jersey called The Radio Thrift Shop. Since October 2005 she has only made occasional appearances on the station.

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