You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes: A Memoir.You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes: A Memoir by Laura Love Laura Love is an American musician born in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. She describes herself as a "light skinned Black" woman. Laura Love had a difficult childhood, raised by a mother with schizophrenia and in foster homes. Hyperion, September 2004 $23.95, ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 1-401-30011-1 Although Love is not a widely known name, she has myriad of fans in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Europe, and was singing at Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall Concert hall in New York, N.Y., U.S. It was endowed by the industrialist Andrew Carnegie at the insistence of the conductor Walter Damrosch (1862–1950). long before Mercury Records Mercury Records is a record label currently headquartered in the UK, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. In the US, its name and logo were now only used on back catalogue, country releases, and re-issues until recently. signed her in 1997. You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes is also the title of her current CD on KOCH Records, and is her ninth recording. The singer/songwriter has taken the spirit of what she describes as an "Afro-Celtic," or "Hip-Appalachian," "folk-funk" style of music to craft an impressive and engaging memoir. Her journey began in the early 1960s in Omaha, Nebraska--a defining point in history for racial equality. Unsure of her own ethnicity, Love survived a nomadic See nomadic computing. and difficult family life, excelling academically and forming lifelong relationships with her peers and teachers, who proved to be the catalyst she needed to propel her into the next stages of life. She never had the benefit of knowing her famous musician father, Preston Love, who played saxophone for such heavy hitters Count Basie, Lucky Millander and Johnny Otis. Love's matter-of-fact writing has the same fireside-chat feel that is portrayed in her music. Her story is familiar, in your face and often funny. It shows there is the possibility of genius as a result of struggle. Nicole Shaw is a freelance writer, poet and manager of Books for Thought in Tampa, Florida. |
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