Laura Veirs shares two versions of 2016 song "The Panther"

"The Panther" is Veirs' first new outing since last year's My Echo album, and arrives with a Ukelele version as well as the original.

Veirs recorded the original track herself back in 2016, and named it after a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke.

She says of the song, "I am sharing these songs now because I like them and think listeners might find them interesting, especially because they are such radically different musical treatments of essentially the same lyrics. I also want to share them now because this song adapts words from one of my favourite poems. Since many of us around the world are still in quarantine, I think listeners will be able to relate to the plight of Rilke’s panther. There are times in life when we find ourselves trapped, either by external circumstances or by self-limitation, or both. Hopefully in those times we can realise that our state of confinement will change and pass, like all things, eventually."