From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V1 #197 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Wednesday, September 30 1998 Volume 01 : Number 197 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] Addicted to Noise [Michael Zwirn ] [MLL] Shake Sugare [Peteragree@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:14:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Zwirn Subject: [MLL] Addicted to Noise This came across Addicted to Noise's MNOTW this morning. I thought it seemed pretty decent, although there was a quote or two that made her sound kind of stupid ;) Big news is that the next album will be all self-written material. - ------------------------------------------------------ Mary Lou Lord's Expectations High After Rehab Visit Singer/songwriter says she feels grounded and ready to move into motherhood and next LP. Staff Writer Chris Nelson reports: Maybe it's her pregnancy. Maybe it was all those weeks spent in rehabilitation. No matter what the reason, singer/songwriter Mary Lou Lord is full of expectations for herself and her music. Nearly six months after canceling a tour supporting her major-label debut to check into an alcohol-rehabilitation program, the 32-year-old mother-to-be said she's feeling happier and more self-confident than she has in ages and is ready to move into the next phase of her career and her life. "Since I got pregnant, I've been feeling very confident, much less self-conscious," Lord said recently. "I used to get petrified onstage, and my shows were often kind-of giddy. I just wasn't centered." The Boston-based neo-folkie capped off her completion of the rehab program with several dates on the Lilith Fair tour last month and is now home, anticipating the birth of her first child in December, as well as developing plans for her second full-length album, for which she plans to write all the material. Lord, who is not married, scrapped the tour in support of her Work Group debut, Got No Shadow, in March to deal with an alcohol problem she had acknowledged in the past. "She had been sober and great for a year and realized she was slipping a bit and checked herself into a program," Work Group spokeswoman Jodi Smith said at the time of the cancellation. "That's helped so much," Lord said of her time in rehab. "I never would have imagined that drinking or doing drugs can actually hinder a performance, but it did for me. I'm a lot more grounded now." That sense of self-assurance has carried over into the songs she's writing for her second Work Group album, said Lord, a former DJ who has also released several EPs for the Kill Rock Stars label. Lord added that she wants to create the songs for the next album entirely on her own, rather than covering others' work or collaborating with her frequent partner, Nick Saloman, as she did on such poignant Got No Shadow tracks as "Subway" (RealAudio excerpt), "Two Boats" and "His Lamest Flame." "I want to write the record myself and just do it in a very natural way," she said. "Not push it, but just let it happen." Lord said she found out she was pregnant two weeks into her rehab stay -- a sign that "someone was definitely looking over me." With a baby on the way, she now sees her career as important, not solely for her own creative well-being, but also for the life of her child. "This is my life, and it's not just mine anymore," Lord said with a mixture of surety and gratitude. "I can't afford to be all silly and nervous. I feel confident and I feel good. This is my job and I have to look at it that way. With pleasure, of course." - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael J. Zwirn zwirnm@ari.net ICQ #12755821 Kibbutz Music Reviews: http://www2.ari.net/zwirnm/kibbutz.html Current: Lucinda Williams, Patty Griffin, Stacey Earle, Jolene, Paul Kelly - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 00:09:47 EDT From: Peteragree@aol.com Subject: [MLL] Shake Sugare Just heard an interesting live version of Shake Sugaree on a live bootleg CD from Bob Dylan from the House of Blues. They mislabel the song as "I've got a secret" on the CD case. Interesting to hear Dylan's version. ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V1 #197 **********************************