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You can purchase Laura Veirs merchandise, including The Young Rapture Choir album and older cds, from her home-spun label Raven Marching Band Records. Please listen to tracks from any of her albums below.

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Album
Description
mp3 tracks
2BeersVeirs

Two Beers Veirs
(RMB, 2008)
Buy it

Limited Edition Covers EP
french
Saltbreakers
(Nonesuch, 2007)
The latest release from Nonesuch Records.
french
This choir of students from Cognac, France sings nine songs by Laura Veirs. Recorded live by Tucker Martine.
YOM
Year of Meteors
(Nonesuch, 2005)
Veirs returns with a shimmery, even summery album of pop and folk gems
carbon
Carbon Glacier
(Bella Union, 2004)
(Nonesuch, 2004)
Veirs comes into her own with a clear, icy, strange and stunning collection of songs.
TBTF
Troubled by the Fire
(Bella Union, 2003)
Buy it - U.S. only
A little bitto folk and country and rock n' roll. Viola, drums, and Wurlitzer add to Laura's guitar and banjo-based songs.
TT
The Triumphs and Travails of Orphan Mae
(Self-released, 2001)
Buy it. - U.S. only
A beautiful, sparsely-instrumentated country-folk concept album about a young lady travelling the American West.

John Henry Lives, with lyrics adapted from Mississippi John Hurt's "Spike Driver's Blues" Jailhouse Fire

green
Laura Veirs
[self-titled]
(Self-released, 1999)
SOLD OUT
Recorded live in 3 hours. Just Laura and guitar.
They say, "Veirs gives folk a much-needed enema."

Green Cowgirl

Other

Listen to the Young Rapture Choir, led by Patrice Cleyrat, and their live performance of Magnetized and Cannon Fodder from April 8, 2006. Also, hear the beautiful renditions of Rapture and The Cloud Room performed by some of the same students in France in 2005.