Accompaniment may include:
Robert Coover - Mandolin, Banjo, Bass... etc.
Sid Malik - Solo acoustic and electric guitar
Percussion - Mark Dance, Greg Germann, the ready and willing...
Influences
Long train rides, rainy days, dancing four-year-olds, and any chick who can pick up a guitar and play it hard.
Sounds Like
A guitar-wielding woman of the folk persuasion. She's been compared to Jewel, Dar Williams, and Natalie Merchant.
As you can see, Laura writes songs. Sometimes she even plays them in public.
Phoenix-native singer-songwriter Laura Joy is a proud member of the League of Struggling Musical Manhattanites (which she thinks is a word, regardless of what MySpace spellcheck says). Her unique finger-picking technique, combined with her warm, comforting voice has been known to quell dark, angry bars full of drunken Irishmen. (extended bio...)
Laura also books shows with singer-songwriter Taylor Giacoma.
Hi Laura! I'd love to invite you to my CD release show. Hope you can make it :)
Release of "Through the Farmlands & the Cities" Thursday May 21 at The Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery, btwn Houston & Bleecker doors at 7:30/show at 8:00pm $5 cover Full Band Show!
'Tis quite alright my friend, I've been quite busy playing some crazy shows. Played at Best Buy the other day lol that was weird... but yeah! everythings going great! How are you?
Hey! Thanks for dropping me a line. Things are busy, as always.
How are you?
Thanks for the props on the new track. It's pretty awesome when you finally get the help you need to make a song sound the way it does in your head....
You wrote "What a heartbreaking little number zero is..."
That's quite the word-play for so few words--I'm impressed. I can come up with 3 ways this can be taken, so I guess double-entendre isn't even appropriate.
