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LAURA GIBSON

Laura Gibson lives in Portland, Oregon, sings songs and plays a nylon-stringed guitar. She is 26 years-old. She grew up in a small isolated logging town in the south coast of Oregon—the daughter of a forest ranger and the town’s kindergarten teacher. A state champion high-jumper, Laura went to college on a math scholarship and later studied counseling in graduate school, but she couldn’t tell you what band put out what particular album in what year. Though, she could probably describe where she was, how she felt and what you talked about, when she first met you, or what the trees looked like the last time her heart was broken. She likes trees.

Gibson completed her debut full-length album with Adam Selzer (Norfolk and Western, M Ward, Decemberists) at his Type Foundry studios in Portland, and Dylan Magierek (Badman Records – Mark Kozelek, The Innocence Mission) at Closer Recording studios in San Francisco in the spring of 2006. Gibson found the perfect backing band in the members of Norfolk and Western, arrangements varying from bare-bones guitar and voice, to an orchestra of trumpets, piano, vibraphone, saw, violin, cello, banjo and found sounds. The songs themselves are haunting portraits of nostalgia and intimacy, of loneliness and wide-eyed hope.