Laura Love

Laura Love (born 1960) is an American singer-songwriter and bass guitar player.

[3] Her father, who had little involvement in her life, was the jazz musician Preston Love who played the saxophone with Count Basie, Lucky Millinder and Johnny Otis and formed his own band in the 1950s.

Love began her performing career at age 16, singing for the prisoners at the Nebraska State Penitentiary.

Her 2003 album Welcome to Pagan Place included the controversial[citation needed] song "I Want You Gone", about George W. Bush.

In 2004 she published an autobiography titled You Ain't Got No Easter Clothes,[3] with an accompanying album of the same name.