Laura Pursell
Channel: Mother Love
Date: 12/09/2015

Hi Cyber Babies. Today on #LATalkRadio #Mother Love talks with #Laura Pursell, Singer/Actress joins Mother love in studio to share her passion for music and acting and growing with a famous father.
About Laura
Laura Pursell was born and raised in Nashville, TN surrounded by music (her father is pianist Bill Pursell, who had the hit record Our Winter Love (1963) and was a go-to sideman in Nashville for Marty Robbins, Patsy Cline, Chet Atkins, Boots Randolph, Johnny Cash, and many, many others. At 18, she was cast as Dick Van Patton's niece in a nationally televised Christmas special, The Gift of Song, starring a host of country music stars. Relocating to LA in the early 90's, she studied at the South Coast Repertory and Beverly Hills Playhouse and has starred in countless stage productions all over LA, including "Blue Moon Dancing" by Ed Graczyk, "In the City for the Summer" (Variety singled out her gritty performance), and the farcical, outrageous "And Then There was Nun" which played to sold out houses for 2 extensions, where she did a hilarious sendup of Gloria Swanson. She was a long time member of the Company of Angels, LA's oldest repertory theatre, winning a Dramalogue Award for her saucy, sword-wielding performance in the mainstage production of Zastrozzi. She appeared in an iconic video for Weird Al Yankovic, spoofing Tanya Harding in the "Mmmm Mmmm" song (where she did her own figure skating). She appeared in several episodes of "Days of Our Lives" and had a small but pivotal role in "The Landlady" starring Talia Shire. In 2013, she was cast as one of the three leads in a hilarious coming-of-middle-age web series called "Living the Dream", 2015, she had the starring role in "Only the Moon Howls", a moving one act which won the Encore! Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Her performance was singled out for its "deep emotional access" and hailed as "heartbreaking", "truthful", "sensitive" and "vulnerable". A film version of the piece is planned for late 2015.
In 2014, she was back in the studio, recording with her dad, the Nashville String Machine, and a rhythm section boasting the best players in Nashville. "The Very Last Dance Hall Left in L.A." is a 10- track collection of jazz, country and pop standards, with 2 original tunes. An ode to an earlier time, this was a historic recording. It brought her dad back to re-record a tune he had actually recorded with Patsy Cline ("Strange"). He also revisited a tune he had previously recorded as a solo artist for Columbia (" I Can't Help it if I'm Still in Love With You"). And the co-writer of "Strange" (Fred Burch) helped shape the lyrics to the title track. 
Bill Pursell is an American composer and former session pianist. He had a brief but successful career as a pop musician before continuing on as a session player
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