McGee on music: Laura Marling can now compete with Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell

Her new album, I Speak Because I Can, proves that Laura Marling is a songwriter who deserves comparison to the greatsLaura Marling's new album, I Speak Because I Can, is a moving response to her break-up with Noah and the Whale's frontman, Charlie Fink. It recalls Joanna Newsom's excellent recent LP, Have One On Me, which has had fans looking for clues in her lyrics to the demise of her relationship with Bill Callahan. However, both albums are more than diary entries set to music. The songs are ...

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