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Laura Veirs is tagged as: singer-songwriter, female vocalists, folk, indie, acoustic

Laura Veirs is an American singer-songwriter. She grew up in Colorado, where she often spent summers camping with her family, which gave her much of her song-writing inspiration. She recently transplanted to Portland, Oregon from Seattle, Washington.
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 and pop music around the house and 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!”. Laura 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 lumin...
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Top 10 Laura Veirs Songs
July Flame
I Can See Your Tracks
Life Is Good Blues
Don't Lose Yourself
Wide-Eyed, Legless
Sun Is King
Silo Song
Summer Is The Champion
Pink Light
Ocean Night Song
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Saltbreakers
July Flame
Year of Meteors
Carbon Glacier
The Triumphs & Travails Of Orphan Mae
Troubled By The Fire
The Triumphs and Travails of Orphan Mae
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Galaxies
Years of Meteors
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