Foxtails Brigade

The Hollywood Hills-born daughter of a cult filmmaker, Laura Weinbach grew up in a musical household that embraced eccentricity. “When I’d get in trouble as a kid, my father would punish me with cassette tapes,” Laura recalls. “He would make me mixes of all his favorite jazz singers like Billie Holiday, Blossom Dearie, June Kristie and Edith Piaf and tell me that if I could learn all these songs and sing them back to him just like they did on the recordings then I could go out and play with my friends.… Show more I'd run to my room and start memorizing. The method paid off. Much later, these same songs would form the core of Laura’s repertoire, Laura started Foxtails Brigade in 2006. Her most recent musical partner is violinist and arranger Anton Patzner of Bright Eyes and Judgement Day.

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