Laura Gibson
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Gibson performing live, 2012
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| Background information | |
| Born |
August 9, 1979 Coquille, Oregon, U.S. |
| Genres | Folk, indie rock |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, musician |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, cello |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Labels | Hush, Barsuk, City Slang |
| Associated acts | Calexico, The Dodos, Peter Broderick |
Laura Anne Gibson (born August 9, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. She currently records for the U.S. independent label Barsuk Records, and the Berlin-based label City Slang. Gibson's most recent album Empire Builder was released April 1, 2016.
In addition to her solo work, Gibson has released a collaboration album with Ethan Rose, titled Bridge Carols, in 2009.
Gibson was born and raised in the coastal logging town of Coquille, Oregon. She was classically trained on cello in her youth. Gibson's father died of cancer in her childhood. She attended Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon where she completed pre-medicine requirements and competed for the Women’s basketball and Track and Field teams.
Gibson relocated to Portland, Oregon after graduating from college, and worked odd jobs prior to composing music. She began performing songs for patients at hospice homes prior to writing her first extended play, Amends, which was released independently in 2004. She released her debut album, If You Come to Greet Me in 2006 on the Portland-based indie label Hush Records. Gibson collaborated with The Decemberists's drummer Rachel Blumberg on the release, as well as on her second album, Beasts of Seasons.
Gibson performed at South by Southwest in 2007 to promote If You Come to Greet Me, and was likened by critics to Jolie Holland. In 2008, she appeared on NPR's first-ever Tiny Desk Concert episode.
In 2009, she released a collaboration album wth Ethan Rose, titled Bridge Carols, which featured experimental vocals and was recorded in various outdoor locations.
Her third release, La Grande (2012), was named after and inspired by the city of La Grande, Oregon, and received critical acclaim; Pitchfork wrote of the album: "Rather than another exercise in genre-dabbling and dilettantism, La Grande succeeds as a cohesive work thanks to the persistence of Gibson's vision. As a songwriter she's preoccupied with those timeless questions of the human condition, but seldom if ever stumbles into pretension or self-satisfaction."
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