Tara Leigh Cobble has been touring full-time for 5 years, and she has the odometer to prove it. She has trekked nearly 300,000 miles to 40 states, to play 1000+ shows for universities, listening rooms, and other venues around the country.
Cobble just released her third album, "Things You Can't Stop With Your Hands", the follow-up to her live sophomore album, "Home Sweet Road". The songwriting and musicianship on both albums (her first is out of print) is astonishing. She gathered her friends around her to record them, and those friends just happen to be some of the most talented craftsmen you could hope for. The albums feature guitar icon Jett Butler, members of Caedmon's Call, and background vocals from Matt Wertz.
The songs on "Things You Can't Stop With Your Hands" intentionally stretch across genre-boundaries. You might be tempted to peg Cobble as a Sheryl Crow-esque rocker one moment, until she surprises you with a warm, fluid acoustic song the next. There seems to be no feeling left uncaptured-exhilaration, pain, fear, carefree bliss. And, for that reason, these songs can't exist as background music. Because these songs you want to live inside.
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