Laura Veirs Concert Review
This past Friday, I headed to one of the nicest local venues for acoustic music: Seattle's the Triple Door. A cabaret-style night club, the Triple Door has a very good sound system for acoustic instruments—something that's definitely lacking in most venues about town.
The reason for the outing was former local Laura Veirs, who moved to Portland a couple years ago after breaking out of the local scene. Veirs is still somewhat little-known outside of the Northwest, but her highly literary brand of folk/alt-country is beginning to be appreciated across the country. She's now on a month-long nationwide solo tour. The Seattle show was night number two.
As we settled in for what turned out to be a set made mostly of songs from Saltbreakers, it became more and more intriguing to see how Veirs—who, on the record, created a universe of sound with a large band of many instruments—would fare interpreting the songs with just her voice and acoustic guitar. She is, however, an impressively gifted guitarist; there were few moments when the band was truly missed.
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