Laura Vecchione

For lovers of scorching female vocals, discovering singer/songwriter Laura Vecchione is striking gold. Reviewers have compared her sound to artists as varied as Aretha Franklin, Susan Tedeschi, Koko Taylor, Lucinda Willams, and Judy Collins.

On the release of her debut album, Deeper Waters, The Boston Globe dubbed Vecchione, “a bluesy songstress” and proudly proclaimed, “Vecchione is all ours.” Multi-Grammy-award winning producersand engineer, Jim Scott (Tom Petty, Wilco, Dixie Chicks, Lucinda Williams) quipped, "Don’t mess with the Veck…if you do, she’ll write a killer song about you and sing the *@#% out of it!" Vecchione has opened for major label artists, and her songs have been featured on national radio and television.

Love Lead, her latest, and first fan-funded album, features Vecchione’s dynamic vocals supported by a host of Nashville’s A-list session players. With original songs ranging from Muscle Shoals to Motown, to poignant singer/songwriter ballads, each track resounds with resilience and hope.

Born in New York City, Laura’s Classical and Broadway voice training began at age fifteen. As an American Studies major at Barnard College, Laura found herself in the warm embrace of the Columbia/Barnard Gospel Choir while also studying Jazz Voice at Manhattan School of Music. Laura moved to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music. Later, studying guitar with local maestros John Curtis (Patty Griffin, Jon Pousset-Dart Band) and Ksenia Mack (Porch Party Mamma’s) she began writing and performing original material.

Press Quotes:
I’ll start with Boston’s Laura Vecchione’s latest disc Love Lead. Vecchione’s immense talents shine through from the first track to last. She does some singer-songwriter stuff. She belts out rockers. She sings bluesy and sultry on R&B material. Her voice is a force of nature, one fined tuned to please the ear at every twist and turn in her lyrical explorations.
–Bill Copeland Music News.

Welcome back, Laura Vecchione. Her new album, Love Lead,is her first in eight years but makes up for lost time. It’s a tasteful yet uncompromisingly honest view of love’s highs and lows, polished but real. Her voice has a theatrical flair (not surprising because she trained in theater), yet she also writes songs steeped in soul, country, melodic pop and Judy Collins-like art songs. Vecchione writes 10 of the 13 tracks here, often backed by Bonnie Raitt’s guitarist George Marinelli. They range from the passionate ballad “You’re the One” to the firmly self-reliant “Lone Wolf,” which suggest the R&B/jazz of Anita Baker. If you enjoy candid love songs with an adult flair, check this out.
–Steve Morse, instructor of Rock History for Berklee College of Music and former staff pop critic for the Boston Globe.

Laura Vecchione was born in New York and lives in Boston, but you sure can’t tell that from her music. Her new album, Deeper Waters, was recorded in Nashville, and you’d swear from listening to it that she’s the love child of June Carter and Blake Shelton (after some fortunate accident with a time machine). Nevertheless, Vecchione is all ours…
–The Boston Globe

“…gutsy, soulful, edge-of-country style.”
– Maverick Magazine, UK

[Girl in the Band is] an exciting sequel offering some of THE best songs and vocals of the year from a female singer and songwriter who’s largely unknown this side of the water. This album establishes Laura Vecchione as one of the most powerful talents to come from America….
-Laura Bethel, Maverick Magazine, UK