From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V5 #47 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Saturday, March 23 2002 Volume 05 : Number 047 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] MLL in New Times [Recordings@aol.com] Re: [MLL] MLL in New Times ["Brian J. Bowe" ] Re: [MLL] MLL in New Times ["Jeff Penczak" ] Re: [MLL] MLL in New Times ["Jonathan Gillespie" Subject: Re: [MLL] MLL in New Times It seems fitting that she was playing there -- very Lester Bangs-ian. For those who don't know, Lester released an album with the Austin band The Delinquents called "Jook Savages on the Brazos" on 03/22/02 3:41 PM, Recordings@aol.com at Recordings@aol.com wrote: > From an article in this week's NEW TIMES LA (the same paper that slammed GNS): > > "But the greatest South by Southwest moment is one that replays itself each > night, and has for years. For hours and hours, Mary Lou Lord -- one-time Sony > Music signee and former Kurt Cobain lover -- plays on the corner of Sixth and > Brazos, outside a downtown Austin strip mall. She will strum and sing from 10 > p.m. until the drunks and deviants run her off the corner, usually sometime > before 4 a.m. > > "Lord endured the shouts ("Jewel!" screamed some smart-ass filing out of an > after-hours party nearby) and picked up pocket change every night, selling her > CDs and singing in that tiny baby voice of hers. She even had a showcase > forthcoming Saturday night, but she serenaded the chilly night and the curious > and bored and stoned for hours and hours. Near the end of her never-ending > set, she sang "Thunder Road," and in that setting, it sounded sad and > brand-new -- like she'd written it on the spot, for anyone who cared to > listen. She sang of promised lands, of how people scream your name at night, > about how she taught her guitar to talk and about how she was gonna get out of > this town full of losers. "I'm pulling out of here to win," and for that > moment, you kinda believed her." > > You GO, Girl! Love you so much! -- Dino > > (for full article go to LANEWTIMES.COM and select "Music") ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:07:19 -0500 From: "Jeff Penczak" Subject: Re: [MLL] MLL in New Times > >From an article in this week's NEW TIMES LA (the same paper that slammed GNS): > > "But the greatest South by Southwest moment is one that replays itself each night, and has for years. For hours and hours, Mary Lou Lord -- one-time Sony Music signee and former Kurt Cobain lover Will anybody ever write an article about Mary Lou without referring to her as "former Kurt Cobain lover?" Sheesh! Nice writeup nevertheless. Jeff (not a Kurt Cobain lover, former or otherwise) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:42:23 -0600 From: "Jonathan Gillespie" Subject: Re: [MLL] MLL in New Times ......and to think I missed it this year. Drats! J _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V5 #47 *********************************