{"id":7296,"date":"2011-10-17T14:36:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T14:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=7296"},"modified":"2011-10-17T20:58:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T20:58:30","slug":"laura-marling-on-wnycs-spinning-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-10\/laura-marling-on-wnycs-spinning-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Marling on WNYC’s Spinning Air"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many have fallen under the spell of British singer-songwriter Laura Marling<\/strong>.\u00a0 We have been resistant, not really hooking into the hoopla for her (mostly) plaintive songs and delivery.\u00a0 But in a recent Ryan Adams<\/strong> interview Adams said that Marling’s <\/strong>2010 album “I Speak Because I Can<\/strong>” (2010 Mercury Prize winner) left him “reeling<\/strong>.”\u00a0 That got our attention.<\/p>\n

And then we stumbled upon her recent performances on WNYC’s Spinning Air <\/strong>program.\u00a0 We’re still waiting to be completely won over by Marling (former Noah and the Whale<\/strong> member) and her music, but the videos below don’t hurt her cause with us.\u00a0 At a minimum, she has a way with words, and her right hand certainly knows what it’s doing around a classical guitar.\u00a0 To our ears, Marling can cleave a little too close to certain seminal female influencers (Joni Mitchell<\/strong> in particular–you’ll hear it in her vibrato on Night after Night <\/strong><\/em>below), but we’ll listen with more open ears from here on out.<\/p>\n

Check out Marling performing three songs (Night After Night, Sophia, <\/strong><\/em>and I Was Just a Card) <\/strong><\/em>off of her new album “A Creature I Don’t Know,<\/strong>” and then a brand new untitled song that planes the refrain “Pray for Me<\/strong><\/em>.“<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n