Video: The Making Of Laura Veirs' 'Tumble Bee'

Not everyone follows up their acclaimed singer-songwriter albums with a disc of children's music, but few children's albums are as mature, upbeat, or dark (trust us), as Laura Veirs latest, which she tells PopMatters all about ... Slowly but surely, confidently and quietly, Laura Veirs has become a significant presence among American folk artists. The singer who began writing while she was a translator for a geological expedition in China has since released seven increasingly acclaimed albums, toured internationally and settled down in Portland, Oregon with producer Tucker Martine and a young son. Veirs' last LP, 2010's July Flame, [...]

For those of you who didn't get to watch Laura Veirs tell pregnant jokes, balance a guitar on her bulbous belly, and eat a pickle-peanut butter-chalk sandwich on stage (okay, that didn't happen) a few years ago at Mississippi Studios, I suppose you should know that Veirs and husband/producer Tucker Martine had a baby recently. They named it—him, I mean him —Tennessee and it's likely that the kid will have NO predisposed inclinations towards music, nor any interest in it whatsoever. I'm predicting a gravitational pull towards Black Box theater, or curling. Anyways, post-baby having, [...]