Where is laura veirs from

In this new batch of songs I imagine escaping from some sort of prison or cage. Advancing age, the confines of domesticity, our oppressive government and the threat of the apocalypse permeate these songs. In these songs my heart craves certainty and permanence but none is to be found. 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 He was certainly an influential person to many in the Northwest and around the world.

And also others like him, like Kurt Cobain or Janis [Joplin] or Jimi [Hendrix] or any of these young people who burned out too soon. You know, I was just contemplating that type of person and what happens to them and why and how. So I was kind of treading a fine line there. I never was in the studio with him, although I heard from people that he was really cool to work with and really sort of, like, off the cuff and weird and not planned, and stuff was breaking down.

Just kind of like a rough and ragged style. And I recently broke up with my ex, Tucker Martine, who — we made records together for 20 years, and I only worked with him as a producer.

Walker: Impermanence is a theme on this album, and it does mirror your personal life. Or was that just something that crept up on you as you were writing the record? Veirs: I mean, I was struggling in my marriage for several years and trying to figure out what to do. And it could feel overwhelming to try to figure out how to make it better and whether you should keep going over that you should break up, and eventually we would realize we should break up.

But through the process of writing this album, I was sort of toying with all of these questions, but not really looking at it with a critical eye in terms of should I be with this person or not. Why does it feel like things are falling apart? Why am I obsessed with death? Why would you want to look at that? It was living in the way she never seemed to have time for previously: cycling, poetry, therapy, dancing, training she can now do two pull-ups ; learning to reach out to friends when feeling low.

The transformation shed light on her old life. Contrary to the myth that has made male creativity synonymous with following the muses and sanctioned chaos, it is possible to make art and remain accountable to others, I suggest. There is, for me, almost no allowance for dysfunction. In , Veirs launched a podcast, Midnight Lightning , to interview fellow parent-musicians. They share an easy life full of mutual kindnesses, without tension or arguments.

It was nerve-racking: would anyone want to date a single parent in her mids who had let her greys grow out? They do! Eventually, her songwriting ability returned: Veirs has much of a new record already written, and says My Echo hardly feels relevant to her now.

Snakes and butterflies and moths, caterpillars, chrysalises.