SFX: Ether Sings (mp3)
Way back in July, Craig over at Songs: Illinois posts a thing about Laura Veirs. I had heard the name before but never got around to checking out her music. Since then Ms. Veirs has rocketed to the upper stratosphere of my musical planet. So much so, that a couple months ago I’m on the verge of picking up a plane ticket to catch her and Sufjan Stevens on one of their joint East Coast dates a while back. But logistics and a crippling dearth of funds keep me home.
last week, she and her band finally make it back out to the West Coast. No Sufjan, but the chance to see her in a cool, intimate setting like Spaceland is too good to pass up. Here are a couple oversaturated, slightly blurry pics for your enjoyment. Her shirt reads, “Come on feel the Illinoise.”
This last pic was snapped before the show as she’s adjusting her mike stand.
The entire set is pulled from her last two albums (the recent Year of Meteors and the acclaimed Carbon Glacier.) See for yourself. I snagged her set list.
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[…] I send cd’s to my friends in San Francisco sometimes. I haven’t as much lately, but occasionally a bit of music comes along that they just need to hear, or I’ll throw together one mix or another for fun and drop it in the nearest mailbox. Only once have the cd’s not made it to their intended targets. I made a couple discs for Lauren, one of them, the new album by Carmen Rizzo, the other a collection of tunes by Laura Viers, sequenced according to the setlist from her Spaceland show. She never got ‘em. […]