Laura Love

Laura Love (born 1960) is an American singer-songwriter and bass guitar player. Her style has been described as "Afro-Celtic" and has also been influenced by bluegrass.

Personal life Love was born Laura Jones in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1960. She is of African American, Native American, and white descent. Love had a difficult childhood, raised by a mother with schizophrenia and in foster homes.

Preston Love Jr., her older half-brother, is a Nebraska politician.

Career Love began her performing career at age 16, singing for the prisoners at the Nebraska State Penitentiary. Love relocated to Seattle, Washington, where she was a member of the 1980s rock group Boom Boom G.I. with an accompanying album of the same name.

Discography Z Therapy (1990) Pangaea (1992) Helvetica Bold (1994) The Laura Love Collection (1995) Jo Miller and Laura Love Sing Bluegrass and Old Time Music (1995) Octoroon (1997) Shum Ticky (1998) Fourteen Days (2000) Welcome to Pagan Place (2003) You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes (2004) NēGrass (2007) The Sweeter the Juice (2009) She Loved Red (2018) Uppity (2021)

Published works Love, Laura (2004). You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes. New York (Hyperion Books).