Pamela Laws was born in Texas, raised in California, and writes and makes records in New York.
She recorded THE ONES I LOVE, her most recent studio album, in Red Hook, New York at Milan Hill Studios.
Its’ origins can be traced to the total lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic but listening you’ll hear the coming out, the freer, deeper breaths of fresh air we have all begun living in 2023.

“Though I live in New York and write and record in the Hudson Valley, my family tree is rooted and with many branches in the part of Texas between San Antonio and Corpus Christie. The life and love in county seats, leased farmland, drought, and floods are where I am from. Though my mom and dad wrapped me in a blanket and drove out West before I could walk, it is their life and stories of surviving the downs and ups of South Texas that informs my songwriting the most.”

THE ONES I LOVE is Pamela’s first collection of songs that truly embraces (and celebrates) the people and places – all the humanity and love and joy and fear – she comes from. Pamela made two albums with Reprise/Warner Brothers as the lead singer and songwriter of a band called Seven Day Diary. She worked with Joe Cicarrelli and Gil Norton on two albums for WB before setting off on her own to make solo albums. THE ONES I LOVE is Pamela’s fourth studio album and features her most powerful collaboration to date – producer and co-writer Jack Petruzzelli, co-writer Adam Bernstein, and recording and mixing engineer, Justin Guip. With special guest artists, Larry Campbell, Cindy Cashdollar and musicians Rich Pagano (drums), Adam Bernstein (bass), Jon Graboff (lap steel), and Shawn Pelton (drums), THE ONE I LOVE breathes deep and propels us all forward on the real-life stories of Pamela’s past.

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