Call Upon The Author

Laura Marling will release her Ethan Johns-produced second album ‘I Speak Because I Can’ on March 22nd, the follow-up to her Mercury-nominated debut ‘Alas I Cannot Swim’. The album will be preceded by new single ‘Devil’s Spoke’ on March 15th.
Laura is to release a second album this year with recording starting this March, again with Johns at the helm, scheduled for release in September 2010.

TRACK LISTING:
01 – Devil’s Spoke     
02 – Made By Maid    
03 – Rambling Man    
04 – Blackberry Stone
05 – Alpha Shallows  
06 – Goodbye England        
07 – Hope In The Air           
08 – What He Wrote  
09 – Darkness Descends    
10 – I Speak Because I Can
UK & IRELAND APRIL TOUR:
09 – Belfast – Limelight
10 – Dublin – The Academy
12 – Manchester – Lowry
13 – Glasgow – Fruitmarket
14 – Edinburgh – Queen’s Hall
16 – Birmingham – Alexandra Theatre
17 – Cambridge – Corn Exchange
19 – Newcastle – Tyne Theatre
20 – York – Opera House
21 – Bristol – Colston Hall
23 – Southampton – Guildhall
25 – London – Palladium
- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – -
I SPEAK BECAUSE I CAN:
‘I Speak Because I Can’ is Laura Marling’s coming of age album, its 10 songs imbued with a new richness, ripeness and sophistication. It is also an album marked by its quintessential Englishness. For all its American instrumentation, its shades of Crosby Stills and Nash, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, its American producer, these songs are no pale Americana interpretation; rather they are tales deeply rooted in England.
Marling chose Ethan Johns to produce as she credits many of his earlier records (among them Ray LaMontagne, Kings of Leon, Emmylou Harris, Sarabeth Tucek) with kindling her interest in music, had long admired his way of working, his use of reels, his quiet, traditional methods of production.  He gave her the space to find her own identity; the record reveals in a new maturity, and at points Marling’s voice sounds a little harder, a little world-wearied.
- – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – - – -
www.lauramarling.com