Laura Veirs
Laura Veirs (born Laura Pauline Veirs on 24 October 1973 in Colorado Spring… Read Full Bio ↴Laura Veirs (born Laura Pauline Veirs on 24 October 1973 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is an American singer-songwriter.
Veirs was raised in Colorado, studied geology and Mandarin Chinese at Carleton College, worked as a translator for a geological expedition in China, and now lives in Portland, Oregon. Veirs has said that she didn't seriously listen to music until she was in her 20s; instead, she just heard what was in her environment. She listened to folk / country / classical / pop, around the house & on the radio, during her youth.
Attending Carleton College in rural Minnesota, Veirs latched onto feminist punk rock from the Pacific Northwest, eventually starting an all-female punk band called "Rair Kx!". Veirs studied geology and Mandarin Chinese. After college, she embraced older country and folk music. Her first foray into songwriting started with a geological expedition in China, where she served as translator. She was miserable and immersed herself into writing lyrics as a way of coping.
She put out her own self-titled album Laura Veirs, recorded live and featuring just her and guitar, in 1999. She has since made five highly acclaimed records with producer Tucker Martine. 2003 saw the release of Troubled by the Fire, a full-band effort that found the artist sharing the studio with such luminaries as Bill Frisell and violist Eyvind Kang. She signed to Nonesuch Records the following year with the atmospheric follow-up Carbon Glacier. Year of Meteors followed in August of 2005. She collaborated with The Decemberists on "Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)", from their 2006 album The Crane Wife. Her sixth record, Saltbreakers, was released worldwide on Nonesuch Records in April 2007. Her seventh album July Flame was released in January 2010.
In November 2011, Veirs released the album Tumble Bee: Laura Veirs Sings Folk Songs For Children. The album presents mostly traditional songs, and features an array of guest musicians, including Colin Meloy, Jim James, and Bela Fleck. The album won a Parents' Choice Award in 2012.
In September 2012 her first feature film soundtrack was released: Hello I Must Be Going.
Veirs tours frequently in Europe, the US and Australia both solo and with her backing band Saltbreakers, consisting of Karl Blau on bass, guitar, and backing vocals, keyboardist Steve Moore, and Tucker Martine on drums.
Veirs was raised in Colorado, studied geology and Mandarin Chinese at Carleton College, worked as a translator for a geological expedition in China, and now lives in Portland, Oregon. Veirs has said that she didn't seriously listen to music until she was in her 20s; instead, she just heard what was in her environment. She listened to folk / country / classical / pop, around the house & on the radio, during her youth.
Attending Carleton College in rural Minnesota, Veirs latched onto feminist punk rock from the Pacific Northwest, eventually starting an all-female punk band called "Rair Kx!". Veirs studied geology and Mandarin Chinese. After college, she embraced older country and folk music. Her first foray into songwriting started with a geological expedition in China, where she served as translator. She was miserable and immersed herself into writing lyrics as a way of coping.
She put out her own self-titled album Laura Veirs, recorded live and featuring just her and guitar, in 1999. She has since made five highly acclaimed records with producer Tucker Martine. 2003 saw the release of Troubled by the Fire, a full-band effort that found the artist sharing the studio with such luminaries as Bill Frisell and violist Eyvind Kang. She signed to Nonesuch Records the following year with the atmospheric follow-up Carbon Glacier. Year of Meteors followed in August of 2005. She collaborated with The Decemberists on "Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)", from their 2006 album The Crane Wife. Her sixth record, Saltbreakers, was released worldwide on Nonesuch Records in April 2007. Her seventh album July Flame was released in January 2010.
In November 2011, Veirs released the album Tumble Bee: Laura Veirs Sings Folk Songs For Children. The album presents mostly traditional songs, and features an array of guest musicians, including Colin Meloy, Jim James, and Bela Fleck. The album won a Parents' Choice Award in 2012.
In September 2012 her first feature film soundtrack was released: Hello I Must Be Going.
Veirs tours frequently in Europe, the US and Australia both solo and with her backing band Saltbreakers, consisting of Karl Blau on bass, guitar, and backing vocals, keyboardist Steve Moore, and Tucker Martine on drums.
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Laura Veirs Lyrics
Bedroom Eyes Been traveling all too long this bear-cat trail But the love…
Black Butterfly Goodbye, black butterfly You can take those perfect wings in…
Black Gold Blues Bird of prey Gonna float away To a feather cloud formation…
Black-Eyed Susan Twenty days walking so lonely and talking to myself and…
Blue Ink I'm falling off the barstool mama in this old ghost…
Cannon Fodder I will not have a child, I will be wild And…
Carol Kaye She can really play it She can really lay it down "Smile,"…
Cast A Hook Breathe life to the street from the mouth Those ruby red…
Cast A Hook In Me Breathe life to the street from the mouth Those ruby red…
Chimney Sweeping Man I'm a chimney sweeping man You see the black lines On the…
Cool Water Cool water I want to fly like a scroll unfolding Float to…
Dead Where gravity is dead And the airplanes fly around Above the…
Devil's Hootenanny I was walking through the snow When I saw a distant…
Don I felt my vocal chords weakening I felt my concave thoughts …
Drink Deep Now the raging of the forest fires end And all the…
Ether Sings Sing me your lover's song Come with me we'll head up…
Everybody Needs You I've seen you standing Many times before Your hands in the s…
Fire Snakes Mermaids Shimmer in the waves Wanted to share a word Course …
Galaxies When you sing When you sing Stars fill up my eyes Galaxies …
I Can See Your Tracks Oh I can see your tracks But I won't follow them I'll…
Icebound Stream Watch, I can flash across the sky A lightning bolt from…
Jailhouse Fire Did you see that lady there? They stripped her to her…
John Henry Hear the whistle blow far off in the still night…
July Flame July flame Sweet summer peach High up in the branch Just out…
Jump Down Spin Around Gotta jump down, spin around and pick a bale of…
King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O Froggie went a courting and he did ride King kong kitchie…
Lake Swimming Lake swimming Shucking free our deadened selves Like snake…
Life Is Good Blues life is good when you dance all night and the world…
Lightning Rod Huge currents and voltages Potential for fire, for fire yes …
Little Black Rock Standing in the forest all Covered in snow I′ve got a few…
Little Deschutes it sure is hard to dance across the room when you've…
Little Lap Dog Lullaby Come up horsey, hey hey Come up horsey, hey hey Come up…
Lonely Angel Dust The rose is not afraid to blossom Though it knows its…
Lost At Seaflower Cove Oh the dirty wordless fingers come again Where the mermaid …
Magnetized Slain, by your zirconium smile I was slain by your olivine…
Make Something Good I wanted to make something sweet The blood inside the maple…
Mama You've Been on My Mind Perhaps it is the of the color of the sun…
Margaret Sands Scuttling claws have cleaned her hands Rising and falling In…
Midnight Singer Oh midnight singer Outside my window Oh how your songs …
Montague Road The yellow wind sends brambles through the dust The tractor …
Mountains of the Moon Cold mountain water Jade Merchant's daughter Mountains of th…
Movin' Along Light of the morning day Sadly it will not stay This perfect…
Nightingale Nightingale sing Though it's blacker than the bog Nightingal…
Ocean Night Song A handful of dream dust for my pirate He can hear…
Ohio Clouds Roll Ohio clouds oh roll on in Wash the cigarettes the…
Orphan Mae I don't know where I come from but I know…
Parisian Dream Your painting Scratched lines of blue and gold You open me…
Phantom Mountain At the top of Phantom Mountain I saw the turquoise Brilliant…
Pink Light Sorry I was cruel, I was protecting myself Drifting along wi…
Rapture With photographs And magnetic tape We capture Pretty animals…
Raven Marching Band The sky's a raven marching Band black blizzard blowing acros…
Rialto Check out the skylark Riding and singing alongside salt cool…
Riptide Riptide pulls me out into the open sea My toes dangle…
Sadako Folding Cranes Sadako is folding cranes The color Spills from the bed Go…
Saltbreakers Serpent tails and flying fish Sup up all the wishes That you…
Salvage a Smile Dead eye from the wood of life Hold the ropes and…
Say Darlin' Say Oh, where did you get them high top shoes? And that…
Secret Someones I'm climbing up the stairs I'm circling the waves The broken…
Seven Falls Raised under rays of gold And under sapphire skies Out in th…
Shadow Blues There's a shadow beneath the sea There's a shadow between yo…
Shape Shifter Shape shifter Thousands in the air Moving as one Magic flock…
Silo Song Dreaming of a silver silo burning in the light Venus de…
Sleeper In The Valley In a green hollow Where a river sings Tiny valley Blue be…
Snow Camping I saw the violet turn to night I saw the water…
Soldier's Joy Continental soldiers on a bivouac Were playin' stud poker in…
Song My Friends Taught Me Struggling like a fly against the glass It's not clear…
Spelunking The tiny midnight caravan Made its way across black hills As…
Summer Is The Champion Honey wax Melt it down Make your heart Molten somehow Tu…
Sun Is King even the most shimmering rain empties out the sky and comes…
Sun Song First rays of light are coming through Been several months …
Ten Bridges Dancing always brings joy, Dancing always brings joy, Tear a…
The Ballad Of John Vogelin I survived the desperate toll dark depression takes I may n…
The Cloud Room Music in the air Plucked from the centuries Presented in the…
The Coo Coo Bird Oh the cuckoo, she's a fine bird Don't she warble as…
The Fox The Fox went out on a chilly night And then he…
The Lookout I can't read these people I can't read their eyes But man…
The Ocean A handful of dream dust for my pirate He can hear…
Through December Birds were falling from the sky all leaves had turned…
Through the Glow Flat stone skipping the surface sink Into the golden deep …
Tiger Tattoos I see you there, your purple hair And the rosy cheeks…
To The Country Don't recognise my face Everybody knows your game Feel lik…
Tumblebee Tumble, tumble into my a-a-arms Fumble, fumble can't keep t…
Turquoise Walls When I thought that I might lose you Oh, I trembled…
Up The River Billy was a young man gone astray Bottle at his lips…
Wandering Kind A strange July a storm came down from the North and pulled…
Watch Fire Just beyond the circle of light (I'll keep the watch, I'll…
When It Grows Darkest When you're out in the sticks And you're all but lost The…
When You Give Your Heart Since you lay my burdens Since you lay my burdens Since yo…
Where Are You Driving? you tangled up in the gnarled tree you do as you…
Where Gravity Is Dead Where gravity is dead And the airplanes fly around Above t…
Why Oh Why Why, oh why, oh why oh, why Why, oh why, oh…
Wide-Eyed Legless Down among the dead The wide-eyed and the legless only half…
Wind is Blowing Stars Clear as ice, oh clear as ice Dripping down from a…
Wrecking Looting the destroyed Vessels of the sea I wondered if the w…
Zozobra Friday night We ditched our glooms And watched the sparks S…