In
a digital download world where artist photos and clever packaging are
often overlooked, LAURA COLE makes us pay attention. On the front
cover of her raw, gritty and wildly infectious debut full length
album DIRTY CHEAT,
the quickly emerging, raspy voiced Ontario based singer-songwriter
smiles playfully, relaxed in a wicker chair. The back cover finds her
in a sexy black dress in the remote woods of Upstate New York, aiming
and shooting a friend's licensed .45 - a wild episode that had
neighbors calling out the SWAT team, thinking something sinister was
amiss before the situation was defused as a big misunderstanding.
That's the perfect metaphor for LAURA and her deep, complex
artistry: the adorable badass. A
compromise free, colorfully blunt songwriter, LAURA brings her edgy,
soulful and distinctively bluesy musical vision to life with the help
of two GRAMMY winning producers - STEVE BIGAS, who won his
GRAMMY
for engineering blues legend TAJ MAHAL, and the legendary DANIEL
LANOIS, an artist in his own right whose vast resume includes GRAMMY
winning albums by BOB DYLAN (TIME OUT OF MIND) and U2 (THE
UNFORGETTABLE FIRE, THE JOSHUA TREE) and others by WILLIE NELSON,
NEIL YOUNG, EMMYLOU HARRIS and THE NEVILLE BROTHERS.
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