From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V5 #42 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Friday, March 15 2002 Volume 05 : Number 042 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] Discovering Mary Lou ["Carsten Wohlfeld" ] [MLL] Discovering Mary Lou ["jennifer allard" ] [MLL] Re: Discovering the Lord ["Elwyn Chow" ] Re: [MLL] Discovering Mary Lou ["Journey Bear" Subject: [MLL] Discovering Mary Lou hey kids, a friend of mine played me both the krs 7" and the self-titled first ep sometime in 1995 or early 1996, basucally because we all were big juliana hatfield fans at the time and obviously juliana guests on one track. soon after i realized that i liked mary lou's more folky appoach a lot better than juliana anyway. smiles, carsten - -- http://carstenwohlfeld.de "if everybody lies, does that become the truth?" ~ mary lorson ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 07:22:23 -0500 From: "jennifer allard" Subject: [MLL] Discovering Mary Lou In high school one of my closest friends made me a mix tape that had "His Indie World" on it. I think that it was '95 or '96. I fell in love with the sound of her voice instantly. And the song it's self is so a trend in my life. I always find myself in lust with Indie boys that are always looking for the blonde and not the brunette. And when I'm done with my lusting I go back to my folk music and play guitar in my living room. I always wanted to see Mary Lou play. My schedule never worked out for me to see a show until she played some church on the UCONN campus in Storrs back in I think 2001. The first band that opened the show was Farewood. They kicked butt in true Indie style. Check them out. Butterflies of Love, could have done without 'em. And then Mary Lou came on. I was sooo excited. I couldn't sit on the floor with everyone else. I met her after. She was very nice. I really wish that she would play more shows in CT. But, I love to travel so seeing her in Boston is nothing for me. The show at Passim just before X-mas was great. I would love a copy of it if anyone knows where I can get it. _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 23:47:44 +1100 From: "Elwyn Chow" Subject: [MLL] Re: Discovering the Lord Hi, Here's my story of discovering MLL and several other Boston bands I love. A couple of years ago, I was at my farewell drinks after quitting a job. (Much to my annoyance, none of the people I actually spent real time with turned up. B****** but the shift workers turned up!) I went for a stroll on Chapel Street in Melbourne, Australia and went to Borders. I often check out which CDs they have by my favourite bands even though I have everything by most of these artists. I found a copy of "Everybody Wants Some: A Loose Interpretation of Van Halen". What the hey, I bought it. I was really impressed because these Boston artists were totally reworking old classics. MLL's cover of "Jump" was one of the songs I loved on first listen. I also loved the Gigolo Aunt's Beatlesque cover of "Why Can't This Be Love?", Fuzzy's "Feel Your Love" and Manhole's "Everybody Wants Some". Ever since getting that CD, I've measured all other tribute CDs to that one and none of them have really held up. It's how the songs are so radically different from the original... well the best songs, IMHO, are the not distant from the original. Bye Elwyn ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:30:25 +0000 From: "Journey Bear" Subject: Re: [MLL] Discovering Mary Lou Well, my introduction to Mary Lou Lord is not as interesting as most of those reported so far. In fact, I don't really remember how I first heard of her. I believe a friend suggested I check her out. Or perhaps someone on The Nields' discussion list mentioned her. I'm not sure now whether I got her album "Got No Shadow" before or after seeing her on the Conan O'Brien show. But I think I was sitting on the fence until I saw her there, and that did it for me. (She did "Lights Are Changing.") As a magazine writer, I do enjoy a bit of a luxury in these matters, and occasionally get CDs on spec that I might not be willing to take a chance on buying; in retrospect I would have gladly paid for this one. Sony/Work Group sent me her CD, I was suitably impressed, and soon after bought every EP of hers in the local used CD store in an effort to find out everything I could about her. I still am inordinately fond of the Martian Saints EP. I ultimately put "Got No Shadow" on my Best of 1998 list. And though this wasn't asked, the first time I saw her was Valentine's Day 1999, at The Iron Horse in Northampton MA, in the first of many Respond Showcases I saw that year, with Merrie Amsterburg, Deb Paternak, and Jules Verdone. Incredible show. This was Mary Lou's first show after having had her daughter on New Year's Eve, and she admitted to being a little shaky. I thought she was just fine, quite charming in fact, and as anyone who has seen her can attest, won the crowd over with her personality as well as her music. As Jenny Allard pointed out, she doesn't play in CT too much. One good reason for this is the place she played most often, The Tune Inn in New Haven, closed down. (I think she had had a falling out with the management before this, but that sealed it.) And another place I've suggested, the Equator Cafe in Manchester, has now also closed. Bad news indeed for acoustic music fans, as there weren't that many such places previously. That leaves The Acoustic Cafe in Bridgeport, The Vanilla Bean in Pomfret, and a smattering of coffeehouses around the state. If anyone has suggestions of places Mary Lou could play please shout out. And Darren From Oregon mentioned giving away copies of CDs in hopes of converting others to "the cause." I do the exact same thing! Whenever I see a favorite CD in the used bins - most often, Joan Osborne's "Relish" and Patti Rothberg's "Between The 1 And The 9," though there are plenty of others - I'll pick it up, rescue it from this horrible fate, knowing that I will eventually find it a home with someone who will appreciate it. In fact, this is how I met and made friends with Patti, as the first time I saw her do a full show I told her this and showed her this CD with the 99" sticker still on it (Gasp! Such effrontery!). Fortunately, this was one time that I guessed right about an artist's personality and attitude - she was not at all insulted; indeed she was actually quite tickled. She said that she does the very same thing and then shrink wraps them and sells them at shows (it's out of print and it's her album, so I believe she's entitled). She signed it, saying "Thank you for rescuing me." Sweet. OK, enough blather for now. More later, I'm sure ;-) JourneyBear PS: Does anyone know why she named the album "Got No Shadow"? There's a Little Feat song by that name, but it's not on the album. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:31:18 +0000 From: "Journey Bear" Subject: Re: [MLL] Re: "On The Avenue" OK folks. I've been searching the web for Jimmy Bruno, and I am fairly well convinced that the songwriter of "I'm Talking to You" is not the jazz guitarist by the same name. There seems to be precious little info on this person, and how Mary Lou ever heard of him is a mystery. However, I've found a few glimmers of info. Apparently he is from the San Francisco area, as evidenced by this listing at Carol Denney's website (www.caroldenney.com): Wednesday, May 8th, 2002, Strings, 6320 San Pablo Avenue, (unmarked door to the right of the beauty parlor) Emeryville, CA, special line-up with musicians Jimmy Bruno and John Palme, special guests Jim Nelson. Want to hear the best, funniest, most unsung songwriters in the Bay Area? This is the show. Bring your friends, donations and food (potluck dishes, beverages) gladly accepted, please do not advertise. No children under twelve. (510) 653-5700 for more information. Perhaps if someone on this list were to go to this show, she or he could talk to Mr. Bruno himself. He does not seem to have a website of his own (jimmybruno.com is the jazz guitarist). According to this, Carol is "Berkeley's funniest, most radical songwriter; a guitar stylist, concertina player, tireless political activist, and editor of the nefarious Pepper Spray Times. Selected as one of the San Francisco Bay Guardian's 2001 "Best of the Bay"." Other than that, I see that Shawn Colvin used to do "I'm Talking to You." Maybe that's how ML heard it. After all, there's "Polaroids" ... Well, that's all I've been able to learn. If someone else wants to take it from here, please do! JourneyBear >From: Stefan Bloom > >It's the same Jimmy Bruno that wrote "I'm Talking to >You," I'm assuming. I don't know much - hell, >anything - about him, but neither of those songs >sounds much like the work of a jazz guitarist. _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V5 #42 *********************************