Breathe Deep

How do you top winning the 2010 Blues Foundation Award for Best Self-Produced CD? Light up the stage in your own 30 minute nationwide TV special titled, Laurie Morvan Band: Nothing But the Blues. Laurie Morvan Band music is now in regular rotation on stations around the world including B.B. King's Bluesville on XM Sirius Satellite radio, Music Choice on cable TV, and the band has twice been named the House of Blues Radio Hour Blues Breaker artist. A prolific writer with a seemingly unending source of inspired material, Laurie penned 11 new songs for her fifth CD, Breathe Deep, released June 12, 2011. Once again, Laurie took the reins of producer, this time co-producing with bandmate and record label partner, Lisa Grubbs. The driving blues shuffle of No Working During Drinking Hours celebrates having some unapologetic fun in between all the hard work. Texas-styled Saved by the Blues paints a picturesque tale of meeting up with Robert Johnson at the crossroads one steamy summer night, and finding blues redemption. Mojo Mama grooves along on a funky, imagery filled journey deep into a sexy blues swamp. It Only Hurts When I Breathe burns slow and powerful, punctuated by beautiful guitar leads and an intimate, vulnerable vocal. Hurtin and Healin highlights Laurie's clever lyrics which explore the duality of the human condition via the coexistence, and codependence, of the two sides of every coin.