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Laura Veirs, elf/moth (?!) costume, banjo, kids. (via)

If I could get temporarily reincarnated as anyone’s baby it would be Laura Veirs’s baby.

"Pimms and lemonaid and VERY loud rock music took Leslie to a new plane here in the midlands yesterday. After visiting the artist’s drink tent, Leslie and Alex had conversation that became very animated and fun. Laura and the band had just performed in front of a crowd of 500 jammed into the inside stage."

Laura Veirs is on tour in Europe, and her parents are traveling along with her to take care of her and Tucker Martine’s new baby. Her dad also seems to have assumed the title of Official Tour Blogger and it’s kind of amazing. More musicians should communicate with their fans via their parents blog posts, really! Especially when they get drunk easily. I am totally charmed.

"People like to think it was tough, but I walked into those early sessions with the attitude like, ‘I gotta play this stuff?’ I was overconfident. I came from jazz. … I played in the black nightclubs every night. In the studios, it didn’t matter. I didn’t get attitude from anyone for being a woman. It didn’t matter if you were a zebra if you could help make a song a hit."

Carol Kaye, subject of a nice Jessica Hopper profile (which the quote’s from) and a totally nerdy/great Laura Veirs song.

I like it a lot.