From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V1 #17 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Wednesday, February 25 1998 Volume 01 : Number 017 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] Review of the Seattle show [William Kennedy ] Re: [MLL] too polished? [jinglejangle-digest V1 #16 ] ["Michael J. Corrig] [MLL] The Big Party (late!!!) [bobcolby@tiac.net (Bob Colby)] Re: [MLL] Philly show/retraction [AWeiss4338@aol.com] [MLL] another MLL review [laser72@juno.com (Cheryl A Chastine)] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 06:40:47 -0800 From: William Kennedy Subject: [MLL] Review of the Seattle show I think the Seattle show only got one review, and that was in The Rocket, our biweekly music magazine. All it said was "Mary Lou Lord performed a pleasant and competent set". Can't get much more lukewarm than that. Most of the review was about Whiskeytown, who the reviewer loved, and whom the audience didn't appreciate sufficiently for the reviewer. Bill ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 14:18:06 EST From: AWeiss4338@aol.com Subject: [MLL] Philly show As reported by Rachel and I, mary Lou will be doing a show at the Pontiac Grill in Philly on Saturday March second. The show starts at 7:30, I don't know whether their is an opening act. The club is located at 304 South St., The club number is 215-925-4053. For any WXPN members out there, you can get tickets at the door for five dollars, as it's a new music showcase event. Call the WXPN member line at 215-573-3340 for more details. Now come the personal part of the message. I have no way of getting to this show (nether Amtrack or NJ Transit/SEPTA, would be avaible to get me home, just there). So if anyone is in the East Windsor NJ area, and can give me a ride, contact me at AWeiss4388@aol.com . What you'll get in return is to get into the show for 5 dollars, since I'm an WXPN member. Andrea ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 14:39:00 -0500 From: "Rivers, Ata" Subject: RE: [MLL] Philly show March 2 is a Monday. When is the show? I heard an earlier report that the date is March 7, which sounds like March 2. I am confused, but chuffed I might get to see Mary Lou again. ---------- From: AWeiss4338@aol.com To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Subject: [MLL] Philly show Date: Tuesday, 24 February, 1998 14:18 As reported by Rachel and I, mary Lou will be doing a show at the Pontiac Grill in Philly on Saturday March second. The show starts at 7:30, I don't know whether their is an opening act. The club is located at 304 South St., The club number is 215-925-4053. For any WXPN members out there, you can get tickets at the door for five dollars, as it's a new music showcase event. Call the WXPN member line at 215-573-3340 for more details. Now come the personal part of the message. I have no way of getting to this show (nether Amtrack or NJ Transit/SEPTA, would be avaible to get me home, just there). So if anyone is in the East Windsor NJ area, and can give me a ride, contact me at AWeiss4388@aol.com . What you'll get in return is to get into the show for 5 dollars, since I'm an WXPN member. Andrea ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:08:03 -0800 From: "Michael J. Corrigan" Subject: Re: [MLL] too polished? [jinglejangle-digest V1 #16 ] ... > From: madame wallachina > Subject: [MLL] too polished? ... > tape of it, and i'm soooo happy! does anyone know if the richard thompson > who wrote the "1952 vincent black lightning" is the shoot out the lights > guy? > ... Yes, http://www.alphalink.com.au/~sfy/RT/Discog.html lists the song and the same web site says: Singer, songwriter, guitarist - Richard Thompson is recognised as one of the great talents of British Rock Music. From Fairport Convention in the 1960s to the recent solo albums, his music has been intense, exhilarating, emotive. In a career stretching back nearly four decades, Thompson has heard his praises sung by many of rock's leading players including Johnny Marr, Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt and David Byrne. As well as his own acclaimed albums, Thompson has appeared as guitarist on albums by artists as diverse as Steve Winwood, JJ Cale, Crowded House and the late Nick Drake. His songs have been covered by everyone from Elvis Costello to REM, and he has worked with such legends as Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:20:42 -0500 From: bobcolby@tiac.net (Bob Colby) Subject: [MLL] The Big Party (late!!!) OK, this is *way, way, way* late....but so is the rest of my life these days. It's about last month's "tour kick-off" at the Middle East on Wed, 1/28. Enjoy! Traffic was unusually congested coming off the Mass Pike, and so were the Muni lots behind Mass Ave (for 7 PM), so I was *almost* late for the List Dinner (which wasn't to be...keep reading). After a few minutes of wandering around I was approached by Chris Livanos. We began looking to see if Rachel had arrived yet. Soon she arrived, along with Joseph (AKA PROMOTE@aol.com) and two young women (not listmembers) whose names I've managed to forget in the meantime. The *original* plan was to have a leisurely dinner and get to know each other a bit, but it didn't quite work out that way. Not long after we got ourselves sorted out and began studying our menus, Joseph came back with an invitation for all of us to the private party Sony was throwing for local media people. I didn't want to leave right away because of the invitation I had issued to listmembers to join us for dinner, but in a few minutes it was 7:30, which I figured was enough time for anyone who had wanted to to find us. So for the next little while I wandered around the upstairs room at the Middle East, trying to make a complete dinner out of Sony peking ravioli and Sony pizza and Sony finger food and Sony liquor, while meeting (at last!) Mary Lou's manager David Meinart and chatting with my local rockcrit and college-radio friends (hmmmm..I wonder how often they get these little perks!). After awhile, a Sony person came on and introduced Mary Lou's acoustic set as representing "where she's been" (compared to "where she's going" now). It was a very good, confident set, but I can't remember which specific songs she did (that's what happens when you wait almost a month to write something up!). After the set, the non-media people were discreetly shooed out the door and directed downstairs, where after awhile the Raging Teens set up and started playing (but not before I ran into listmember Glenn French). I don't get out to see a whole lot of rockabilly, but I definitely dig these cats. Kevin Patey is an effective transmitter of the rockabilly spirit, and guitarist Amy Griffin (whose birthday it was) is an exceptional player. Between sets, I ran into list member Roland Ouellette, who had been delayed in transit and showed up for dinner a couple of minutes after 7:30. Sorry, Roland (hope this didn't happen to anyone else)! Next up was Mary Lou, accompanied by her new band. She made some comments about how she felt like a sixteen-year-old who'd just gotten her license. Then it was drivetime. I agree with the other posters who say these guys are *good*, I also think they compliment her as well as an electric band can. The songs still sound like Mary Lou Lord songs, and seeing this unit live should go a long way towards mollifying fans who fear that she's gotten too slick with the new record. In fact, the only thing that didn't work for me with this set was that it was jam-packed in front, forcing me to stand in place, something I can't do for long without considerable foot pain. ButI elected to put up with that rather than retreat to the back, which should tell you something about the music. Again, I'm more than a little fuzzy on the set list (I think Rachel gave it in an earlier post, 'tho), but I do know that "Subway" (my favorite of the new songs, and my own pick for the second single) came either at or very close to the end. It was between sets (the rockabilly Racketeers were scheduled to close) that I saw an omen of the future; *dozens* of fans clustering around MLL, asking for autographs. I'm used to seeing this happen with five or six people, but these people were obviously *star-struck* in a way that was new to me. A little walking around had restored my feet, but I found myself much more tired than I'm used to being around midnight, and I elected to split early in the Racketeers' set (no reflection on them, they rock). All in all, 'tho, a great night, and it was great getting to meet so many of you. Now that Mary Lou is in the headlining part of her tour, I'd be curious to hear some reports as to how people feel that her gigs compare to earlier appearances in their town. Bob Colby ************************************************** TYPECON '98: Oct 30-Nov 1, '98 VENUE: Marriott Westborough, Westborough, MA PRINCIPAL SPEAKER: Matthew Carter INFO: Society of Typographic Aficionados P.O. Box 673 Mansfield, MA 02048-0673 email: sota@tjup.truman.edu, ph: 508-643-2247 (lv.msg) http://tjup.truman.edu/sota ************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:33:08 EST From: AWeiss4338@aol.com Subject: Re: [MLL] Philly show/retraction I accedently gave out incorrect info. The show is Saturday march 7, not March 2, as I said eariler. Sorry if anyone is inconveinced. Andrea ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 23:41:54 -0500 From: laser72@juno.com (Cheryl A Chastine) Subject: [MLL] another MLL review "GOT NO SHADOW" Mary Lou Lord (Work) Good Lord By PAUL CURRY © The Courier-Journal Reviewed Feb. 14, 1998 Several years ago Mary Lou Lord recorded a single. It was really good. Then she recorded an EP. It was really good too. The two songs on the single and the first song on the EP were full band arrangements, but the balance of the EP, seven songs, were solo acoustic numbers. Three were self-penned; the others were covers of the Bevis Frond, Daniel Johnston, Matt Keating and such. Still, they were really good and the major labels got all in a tizzy to see who would be jacking her up from obscure indie-idol status. Then Kurt Cobain died. Now that doesn't seem like it would be such a big deal to anybody, really, but there were rumors that Lord had had some sort of relationship with him. (You can hear hints of these events in a song called "The Bridge," which appears on the EP.) But Courtney Love wigged out or something, and Lord receded in the wake of Cobain's sudden absence. But now Lord has got a new record, and it's got all the earmarks of a major label push. Shawn Colvin is singing back-up. Nick Saloman (a.k.a. The Bevis Frond, another talent well-worth investigating) has songwriting credit on seven of the 13 songs. There's a cover of a Freedy Johnston song. If you don't know how cool he is, you've been missing out for years. It isn't really disappointing that Lord doesn't have more of a songwriting presence; she takes credit for only seven tunes (co-writing three with Saloman), but she had established herself previously as much as an interpretive artist as she had a songwriter. She cut her teeth as a "busker," playing songs for pedestrians with spare change, and I'm sure she learned quickly that familiar tunes pull the pennies out of people's pockets more quickly than originals. I can't complain about her originals. "Seven Sisters" is an overview of disillusioned big-city heartbreak; "Cinderella's on the corner with her eyes in tears /Waiting for the moment when the magic appears." She follows that with "Throng of Blowtown," which reminisces about the days when "the scene thrived with drama and romance." And then she offers us Johnston's "The Lucky One." Isolated from the two previous songs, it sounds cold; but in sequence, the irony is powerful. Next up is "She Had You," one of Saloman's songs, which tells the tale of a street-corner competition. The "she" was a "no one . . . a loser." As Lord sings it "she tried to match me, she couldn't keep the pace." Subsequently the singer has achieved her dreams, a college education, success, but she still laments that her old non-friend "had you." Meanwhile, the guitars burn down brightly. Again, it could be autobiographical, except Lord didn't write it. The album reprises all three of the songs that Lord had previously recorded with her band, "Western Union Desperate," "Lights Are Changing" and "Some Jingle Jangle Morning," any one of which could be a AAA radio anthem. It's kind of bittersweet that Lord has gone to the majors, but they seem to be treating her well. It's nice to see someone get a push who deserves it, and "Got No Shadow" balances the shine with a respectable earnestness on Lord's part. All the music geeks will delight in the lyrical references to Richard Thompson, the Pogues, Bob Dylan and however many others I didn't catch, and all the romantics will want to die in the arms of the love that she swears is out there. _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V1 #17 *********************************