Laura Love
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Laura Jones |
| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Genres | Folk, Afro-Celtic |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter |
| Instrument(s) | Bass guitar |
| Years active | 1976–present |
Laura Love (born 1960) is an American singer-songwriter and bass guitar player. Her style has been described as "Afro-Celtic" and has also been influenced by bluegrass.
Personal life[edit]
Love was born Laura Jones in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1960.[1] She is of African American, Native American, and white descent.[2] Love had a difficult childhood, raised by a mother with schizophrenia and in foster homes.[3] Her father, who had little involvement in her life, was the jazz musician Preston Love who played the saxophone with Count Basie, Lucky Millinder and Johnny Otis and formed his own band in the 1950s. Love's mother, Wini, had been a singer in Preston's jazz band.[4]
Preston Love Jr., her older half-brother, is a Nebraska politician.
Career[edit]
Love began her performing career at age 16, singing for the prisoners at the Nebraska State Penitentiary.[5] Love relocated to Seattle, Washington, where she was a member of the 1980s rock group Boom Boom G.I.[1] She was also a member of an all-female band, Venus Envy.
After Love released three albums on her own label, Octoroon Biography, Putumayo released a collection of her songs in 1995. Her 2003 album Welcome to Pagan Place included the controversial[citation needed] song "I Want You Gone", about George W. Bush. In 2004 she published an autobiography titled You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes,[3] with an accompanying album of the same name.[6]
Discography[edit]
- Z Therapy (1990)
- Pangaea (1992)
- Helvetica Bold (1994)
- The Laura Love Collection (1995)
- Jo Miller and Laura Love Sing Bluegrass and Old Time Music (1995)
- Octoroon (1997)
- Shum Ticky (1998)
- Fourteen Days (2000)
- Welcome to Pagan Place (2003)
- You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes (2004)
- NēGrass (2007)
- The Sweeter the Juice (2009)
- She Loved Red (2018)
- Uppity (2021)
Bibliography[edit]
- Love, Laura (2004). You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes. New York (Hyperion Books). ISBN 1-4013-0011-1
References[edit]
- ^ a b Bush, James (1999). "Laura Love". Encyclopedia of Northwest Music: From Classical Recordings to Classic Rock Performances, Your Guide to the Best of the Region. Seattle, Washington: Sasquatch Books. pp. 249–250. ISBN 9781570611414. OCLC 41564967.
- ^ "African-Native American Scholars". African-Native American Scholars. 2008. Retrieved July 30, 2008.
- ^ a b Love, Laura (2004). You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes (1st ed.). New York: Hyperion. ISBN 9781401300111. LCCN 2004-47327. OCLC 54806098.
- ^ "Hard times ring sweet in the soulful words of singer-songwriter-author Laura Love, daughter of the late jazz man, Preston Love Sr". Leo Adam Biga's My Inside Stories. May 1, 2010. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
- ^ "Laura Love Biography". Pandora Internet Radio. Retrieved January 10, 2008.
- ^ Laura Love (2004). You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes (CD). New York: Koch Records. LCCN 2004-717557. OCLC 56494107. koc-cd-9553.
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- 1960 births
- American bluegrass musicians
- African-American women singer-songwriters
- American folk singers
- American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent
- American women country singers
- American country singer-songwriters
- American women bass guitarists
- MNRK Music Group artists
- Living people
- Musicians from Seattle
- Singer-songwriters from Washington (state)
- Zoë Records artists
- African-American country musicians
- Guitarists from Washington (state)
- Guitarists from Nebraska
- 20th-century American bass guitarists
- 20th-century American women guitarists
- African-American guitarists
- 20th-century African-American women singers
- 20th-century American women singers
- 20th-century American singers
- 21st-century African-American women singers
- 21st-century American women singers
- Singer-songwriters from Nebraska