Veirs, k.d. lang and Neko Case. The album received positive reviews and a Metacritic rating of 82. In April 2018, she released her tenth studio album The Lookout on her own label Raven Marching Band in North American and Bella Union in the rest of the world. It was a concept album about the fragility of precious things. It featured contributions from Sufjan Stevens, Jim James and was produced by Tucker Martine. Earlier, in January 2018, she had launched a podcast, Midnight Lightning, about the lives of musician parents. The first season featured weekly interviews with 14 mother musicians such as Corin Tucker (Sleater-Kinney), Carol Kaye, Rosanne Cash, Rhiannon Giddens, Meshell Ndegeocello, Amanda Bergman among others. In early 2018, Chronicle Books published her first picture book, Libba: The Magnificent Musical Life of Elizabeth Cotten. A story about folk musician Elizabeth Cotten (aka "Libba") it was illustrated by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. Libba was a Junior Library Guild selection and received the Parents' Choice Award. On Valentine's Day 2020, Veirs released the song "I Was a Fool", exploring her divorce. In July, her eleventh studio album My Echo was made available for pre-order with a scheduled release in October. Veirs continued to write and record, finishing most of an album's worth of material by the time, My Echo, was released. Touring band members Laura Veirs – vocals, guitar, banjo Eli Moore – bass, guitar, synth Eyvind Kang – viola Karl Blau – guitar, bass, saxophone, keyboards, vocals Steve Moore – piano, keyboards, bells, euphonium, vocals Production Tucker Martine was a producer on many of the albums including Carbon Glacier, Year of Meteors, Saltbreakers, July Flame, Tumble Bee and Warp & Weft. Raven Marching Band records Veirs runs a record label, Raven Marching Band Records, that has released her own and other artists' music. In 2016, the label released Introducing Karl Blau, which was crowdfunded. Style In 2007, Veirs said about her lyrics, "I like to be personal in my writing, but not overly confessional." Many of her lyrics are inspired by literary works. The song "Saltbreakers" on her 2007 album Saltbreakers was partially inspired by A. S. Byatt's Possession. Another song on the same album, "Don't lose yourself", was partially inspired by José Saramago's novel, Blindness. T. S. Eliot was an inspiration for the song "Margaret Sands" on The Lookout. Personal life Veirs lives in Portland, Oregon. Around 2000, Veirs married Tucker Martine,