From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V1 #26 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Friday, March 6 1998 Volume 01 : Number 026 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] The Stranger review [William Kennedy ] [MLL] Hi! ["Hanson Ho" ] [MLL] MLL post from AOL file [LisaTski ] [MLL] mtv.com articles [Rachel ] [MLL] Mary Lou tonight [jeffrey@kickbright.com (jeffrey howard)] RE: [MLL] Mary Lou tonight ["Rivers, Ata" ] [MLL] Magnet GNS review [Rachel ] [MLL] Mary Lou at the Coach House - San Juan Capistrano ["Rivers, Ata" ] [MLL] she admits it... [Kill Yr Idols ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 07:05:43 -0800 From: William Kennedy Subject: [MLL] The Stranger review Here's a review from The Stranger, Seattle's alternative weekly, March 5, 1998 issue. (contact The Stranger at postmaster@thestranger.com) Their album review page rates albums with little rockstar figures. Four rockstars = acquitted Three rockstars = Community Service Two rockstars = Mandatory Therapy One rockstar = 6 days in the hole Mary Lou gets mandatory therapy. Here's the review, by Sean Nelson (one of the best writers on this paper). The unfortunate truth about this album is not so much a question of goods and bads. As a piece of music, it's exactly pretty good; a perfectly appropriate choice to be reviewed alongside Juliana Hatfield in spin. Warm and clean and friendly, Got No Shadow is a bristly paced chronicle of years of industry, with a couple of songs ("Western Union Desperate" in particular) standing above the others. The only shocking thing about the album is its lack of character, its will to plain. As even her detractors will allow, Lord is about the song and singing it. Whatever magic exists or existed or never existed in her is about simplicity--a simplicity that touched me a thousand times watching her perform. But somehow that whole idea gets lost on her debut album, which is a pity. I'm still rooting for her to pull off an American Recordings-style album, something to contextualize her voice, rather than just present it. Got No Shadow comes after a lot of speculation as to what Lord is really about. It's not a very encouraging answer. --- Bill ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 09:04:06 PST From: "Hanson Ho" Subject: [MLL] Hi! Just picked up Got No Shadow on tuesday, March 3 (the Canadian release date). Although it's still too early to tell, I think GNS could very well be my favourite album of the year. It's absolutely brilliant! So far, I haven't encountered anybody in Canada that has even HEARD of Mary Lou Lord, and that kinda pisses me off... (instead of listening to good stuff like MLL, people buy shit. (ie puff daddy) By the way, I'm new on the list, and it would be helpful if somebody would clue me in what we usually talk about on this list! preem ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:13:04 EST From: LisaTski Subject: [MLL] MLL post from AOL file Thought this might be of interest.... Lisa - -------------------------------- Hello everyone...im in Olando FLA...It's SOOO dam cold...Jeeze it's been so long where do I begin...The tour's going pretty well...The Raging Teens are sounding better than ever..It's been alot of fun..II had a Birthday the other day (thanks for the wishes), and in Atlanta the crowd sang to me! David Norman's wife mad a lovely cake...It sure was different from last year's lonliest day...So ,what about Shawn Colvin???!!!Wow...She was queen for a day...What a coming out party>>>Well deserved...2 Grammy's...Songf the year and record of the year....Elliott Smith is up for an Oscar...Boy, my ears really do work...In this month's Spin Mag, there should be my interview with Elliott Smith...Wow cool...I never interviewed anyone I don't think...I hope it comes out nice....Anyway, I gotta run...Thanks to everyone for all you guys do for me. I have been so very busy. I wish I could have just two days off...Anyway,Thank you and I'm looking foreward to seeing you soon...Thanks Dino...Can't wait to see you...Take care you guys... All my Love, Mary Lou ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:27:07 -0500 (EST) From: Rachel Subject: [MLL] mtv.com articles from http://www.mtv.com/mtv/news_launch.html (there are photos of each of them and some QuickTime thing) 2.12.98 14:00 EDT Mary Lou Lord Chats Up Her Oscar Nominee Pal Elliott Smith Perhaps one of the less expected Oscar nominations this year was for singer/songwriter Elliott Smith's "Miss Misery" from the "Good Will Hunting" soundtrack (see "Celine Dion And Titanic Find Wave Of Oscar Nods"). Smith also turns up on "Got No Shadow," the new album by his friend Mary Lou Lord. MTV News spoke with Lord at the Sundance Film Festival about how a soundtrack can provide a certain type of exposure that radio doesn't always offer. Lord cites Smith as an example. "I don't think radio would ever get what he's doing - the state of radio as it is right now. And it is so special and he would never compromise for radio and you should never have to. For him to be able to do exactly what he does and have it done through a film like this is wonderful, and he's a new artist, and it would be great if maybe this could really help to change radio and the state that it's in right now and that whole, novelty one hit let's just bang 'em out and see what sticks kind of thing." Smith and Lord, as it turns out, were on the same indie label, Kill Rock Stars. and another article (you can get these by doing a search for MLL at MTV) 1.30.98 12:30 EDT Mary Lou Lord Visits Sundance, Talks Film Music While indie filmdom's up-and-comers were scrambling to see and be seen at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Mary Lou Lord was there rolling out a showcase of her folk-rock wares to promote her major label debut album, "Got No Shadow." The album boasts appearances by Shawn Colvin, Roger McGuinn of Byrds fame, and the critically acclaimed Pacific northwest singer/songwriter Elliot Smith. Smith can also be heard on the "Good Will Hunting" soundtrack, and while at Sundance, Lord told us that having songs fit a movie's scenes, the way she thinks Smith's do in "Good Will Hunting," is a songwriter's dream come true. "That kind of relationship between the writer, the songwriters and the film makers... like Gus Van Sant is a musician and you know his relationship with Eliot," Lord said. "Then bringing Danny Elfman into the picture was just a certain sort of magic that is necessary. It seems to me there are too many people, you know, the big shots trying to place songs for all the wrong reasons, and this way here, maybe some directors can see us and we're real people and it's nice for us to know they're real people too." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:41:14 -0500 From: jeffrey@kickbright.com (jeffrey howard) Subject: [MLL] Mary Lou tonight hello. I am seeing Mary Lou Lord tonight in Orlando. I've been looking forward to it for a couple of weeks now. It was supposed to be a sort of Kill Rock Stars night at the Sapphire. Unwound is also playing. Yes, you read right: Unwound! The Peechees were supposed to show up too but they cancelled. Oh well. Then they split MLL/Raging Teens off for a "late" 10 pm show which basically means you have to pay twice to get in. Whateva! The MLL is $15 by itself. A bit pricey if you ask me (Superchunk was only $10 a couple of weeks ago). But i'll go to both shows anyway. jeffrey ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 13:58:00 -0500 From: "Rivers, Ata" Subject: RE: [MLL] Mary Lou tonight Superchunk, wow I forgot all about them. Does the guitarist still stick his elbow out while he jumps around the stage? ---------- From: jeffrey@kickbright.com To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Subject: [MLL] Mary Lou tonight Date: Thursday, 05 March, 1998 13:41 hello. I am seeing Mary Lou Lord tonight in Orlando. I've been looking forward to it for a couple of weeks now. It was supposed to be a sort of Kill Rock Stars night at the Sapphire. Unwound is also playing. Yes, you read right: Unwound! The Peechees were supposed to show up too but they cancelled. Oh well. Then they split MLL/Raging Teens off for a "late" 10 pm show which basically means you have to pay twice to get in. Whateva! The MLL is $15 by itself. A bit pricey if you ask me (Superchunk was only $10 a couple of weeks ago). But i'll go to both shows anyway. jeffrey ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:13:08 -0500 (EST) From: Rachel Subject: [MLL] Magnet GNS review From Magnet magazine, March/April 1998: p. 69 by Fred Mills Mary Lou Lord - Got No Shadow Sweet dreams are made of this. Midway into the buoyant majesty of "Lights Are Changing" (a cover of The Bevis Frond's cautionary epic) emerges a signature electric 12-string solo, and you know instinctively that it's the 12-string king himself, Roger McGuinn. Pure bliss--and there are many more joys to taste here. As a seamless pop records, Got No Shadow decisively undercuts all those menstrual whinings from Fiona, Jewel, Sheryl, et al; you'd swear Lord was some *grande dame* icon instead of the young street busker and ex-Kill Rock Stars folkie that she is. All the more remarkable: Lord only wrote three songs here, the bulk of the duties going to Nick Saloman (a.k.a. Bevis), yet she so convincingly inhabits the material, exuding an unnatural charisma and self-confidence that perhaps only the timeless Lee Hazlewood/Nancy Sinatra collaboration comes to mind as a comparison. Lord grips a guitar where Sinatra wielded a mascara brush, however. Plus, Lord's flexible vocal register, which recalls Juliana Hatfield or Shawn Colvin, is the perfect blend of childlike optimism and world-weary street smarts; her jaded, downcast tone in "She Had You" is brutally frank, contrasting with the stylishly engaging, breathy speak-song voice adopted for "Throng Of Blowtown." Musically, too, Lord and Saloman have turned her folk roots to full pop/rock advantage. Straightforward tunes, like the jangly "His Lamest Flame" and the two-chord riffer "Some Jingle Jangle Morning," get the kind of rousing band arrangements destined to spawn many an air-guitar flourish among listeners. And despite assorted celebrity cameos (McGuinn, Colvin, Elliott Smith, Nels Cline, Money Mark, Will Goldsmith), what comes across on this record is Lord's strength as a performer and winning personality. Also, according to the WORK newsletter, the March 18th show at the Troubadour in LA will also be webcast. Are ALL her shows webcast? Really...anyway, hopefully I'll be at that LA show to meet up with some of you, but I'm not sure yet. Gotta get that ticket and one to Conan!! :) Rachel "Sexiness is creativity personified." -- Susie Bright - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- my Mary Lou Lord page is at http://pages.nyu.edu/~rkb200/ To join the Mary Lou Lord mailing list, email Majordomo@smoe.org with ONLY "subscribe jinglejangle" OR "subscribe jinglejangle-digest" in the BODY. For info on my zine I'M NOT WAITING go to http://pages.nyu.edu/~rkb200/zine.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:37:00 -0500 From: "Rivers, Ata" Subject: [MLL] Mary Lou at the Coach House - San Juan Capistrano Anybody planning to go to the Coach House show in San Juan Capistrano March 21 (I think that's the date)? It's the weekend I'll probably be in L.A. and I remember that there is strength in numbers at that place because of the Vegas style cabaret seating. Lemme know ---------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 05 Mar 98 16:06:30 -0500 From: "Lee S. Kilpatrick (Mr. Breeze)" Subject: Re: [MLL] Hi! > By the way, I'm new on the list, and it would be helpful if somebody > would clue me in what we usually talk about on this list! I've bene here for about 3 weeks, and it seems to mostly be copies of reviews/articles and concert reports. Lee ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 15:10:20 -0800 (PST) From: Kill Yr Idols Subject: [MLL] she admits it... <>> THis is what I was talking about when the album came out and a few of you jumped all over me...she knows she did it and she tries here to make it sound very non-important but she knows what she did... - -Alex turneral@elwha.evergreen.edu http://192.211.16.13/individuals/turneral/home.htm ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V1 #26 *********************************