Laura Veirs with Karl Blau at Bootleg Theater LA October 1

Laura Veirs with Karl Blau to grace to the stage at Bootleg Theater LA October 1st.

From one of the country’s most inimitable songwriters – Portland, Oregon’s Laura Veirs - comes her ninth full-length album.

Beautiful, lush and at times deeply dark, “Warp and Weft” captures the intensity of motherhood, love and violence. Primarily electric-guitar driven, it is a fever dream of an album and could well be Veirs’ best work to date.  It builds on the uniform praise and commercial success of 2010′s “July Flame,” which Utne Reader dubbed “idiosyncratic and captivating” and received glowing reviews from The New York Times, Pitchfork, NPR and others.   The recording of “Warp and Weft” (a weaving term) was a community effort. Produced in

Portland in March 2013 by Veirs’ longtime collaborator Tucker Martine, the album features Jim James, kd lang, Neko Case, Brian Blade and members of The Decemberists and many more.

To listen to Karl Blau‘s albums and make descriptions of what is heard is to walk through a farmer’s market and describe all the vegetables grown in that area. It is the love that Blau feels for music that shines through; most anyone can sense the passion this cultivator has for his trade. Every age group has been exposed to punk rock and everyone needs heartfelt music now as much as ever.