It's a common tale: Girl moves to the city to go study law at Columbia, instead becomes an acclaimed country-folk artist, has a child, takes three years off, comes out of hiaturs by recording a New Order tune. OK, not so common. But the last few legs of the story are at least logical; when you have a kid, you have less time to play and more time to listen, which would explain why six of the nine tracks on Laura's return album are covers, of everyone from Burt Bacharach to Merle Haggard. Her take on the Low-Life opening track "Love Vigilantes" by New Order is the sort of transformation you'd expect -- enter the mandolin and the fiddle, etc. -- and the refrain's longing lyric ("I wanna see my family, my wife and child waiting for me/Gotta go home, I've been so long you see") fits Laura's folk-lilt reading quite nicely.