From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V6 #48 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Tuesday, September 2 2003 Volume 06 : Number 048 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] Re: Boston Busking article ["Marshall Levin" ] Re: [MLL] Re: Boston Busking article [Rasputina11@aol.com] [MLL] Mary Lou Article! [Bopst@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 17:51:47 -0400 From: "Marshall Levin" Subject: [MLL] Re: Boston Busking article BTW, when was the last time anybody saw Mary Lou busking in Boston or Cambridge? I haven't seen her in *ages* and I pass through Park Street and Harvard Square all the time. Where's she been hiding? - M - ----- Original Message ----- > Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:11:13 -0700 > From: Cinnamon Brunmier > Subject: [MLL] Boston Busking article > > How can you write an article on busking in Boston and NOT interview Mary > Lou??? > http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2003/08/17/streetwise_they_feel_th > e_fall/ > Who is this cheesehead? > XoX--Cin ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 20:12:11 -0400 From: Rasputina11@aol.com Subject: Re: [MLL] Re: Boston Busking article I lived in Cambridge last Summer and MLL was performing in July or Aug in Harvarc Sq. in front of the Coop. ~Natasha ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 21:28:22 EDT From: Bopst@aol.com Subject: [MLL] Mary Lou Article! The Salem News Online Edition Thursday, August 28, 2003 An ear for music, an eye for fashion: Singer opens secondhand clothing store, while preparing for new album By DAVE GERSHMAN Staff writer BEVERLY - At the height of her career a few years back, singer Mary Lou Lord would return home from a tour lugging bags full of vintage clothes, the sort of things that would become sought after by her fans. While playing clubs at night, Lord spent her days seeking out used clothing stores, partly to relax and partly out of necessity; there's no time for laundry in rock 'n' roll. Lord definitely has an eye for fashion. Yet, after her sweet and breezy voice earned her fame with her 1998 major-label debut, "Got No Shadow," she never expected to be on the other side of a cash register. In a case that her lawyer has called cosmetic surgery gone awry, she had to reinvent not only how she sings, but also how she sees herself, fearing that an allegedly botched operation would keep her from ever performing again. "It was really strange," Lord says. "I almost lost my identity. I said to myself, 'Who am I?'" That search led Lord and her husband, Kevin Patey, to contemplate a change in lifestyle. Patey left his band, The Raging Teens, and returned to his day job selling cars. Then they came up with a better idea, one that would be more fun. While they're still rock' n' roll people, they are now also owners of Retro Vixen, a new vintage clothing store at 265 Rantoul St. in Beverly. Music and fashion do go hand-in-hand, they say. Meanwhile, Lord has essentially relearned how to sing through vocal therapy and expects to release "Baby Blue," a new album of original and cover songs, in February. "I'm usually afraid to take chances and reinvent," Lord says of her singing style. "This has sort of forced me to reinvent." Patey hasn't left music behind either. His new band, Jittery Jack, will play Lonnie's Place in Salem next month on Thursdays. Passion for old clothes For the couple, who live in Beverly, opening the store was a completely new venture. They spent a month transforming the space (Patey had taken a driver's education class at the same spot, and discovered the old carpet was still there). Inside, Retro Vixen is filled with brightly colored dresses and shirts. Proving that everything old can be new again, some of the hottest items are old tour shirts of bands like Def Leppard and those alligator T-shirts you wore in the '80s. Lord joked that when she went to her Salem High School reunion this summer, she could hardly resist the urge to ask her classmates to grant her access to their old wardrobes. Already, the couple's work is paying off; the store is attracting customers of all ages. There's also some attention that's more difficult to deal with. On a recent afternoon, a passerby popped excitedly through the door to announce that the underwear on the mannequin in the front window is visible. Another man sat in a nearby doorway, clutching a Salem High School yearbook for Lord to sign. While playing in the subways, Lord says, "I could always walk away." Up from the subways Lord cut her teeth playing underground for 15 years in London and Boston. She also made a habit of playing in downtown Salem on Halloween night. After recording for the indie label Kill Rock Stars, Lord released "Got No Shadow" in 1998. But she cut short her tour in support of the album to have a child and took time out from the limelight. In March 2002, Lord wanted to have a mass removed from her cheek, but the person who performed the surgery cut so deeply, she said, that he injured her parotid gland, causing one side of her face to swell up. "She was in a situation where she was faced with potentially not being able to do what she did anymore," Patey says. The couple didn't know whether Lord would ever be able to sing again. They have filed a lawsuit, alleging malpractice. It is still pending. The whole experience sent Lord into an "emotional downward spiral," she said. But she's on her way back. That she recorded a new album in London, she said, is almost unbelievable. And the devotion to the store was therapy of a sort. Stocking it was like one big shopping trip. "They do say that shopping is some kind of emotional release," Lord says. NEWS BROWSER Home Page One Obituaries Police & Fire Court North Shore Sports Record Opinion Features Money Health At Home Weekender Living Classified Other pages on our Web Site & Business Information updated 24 hours a day . Click Here. Email a News Tip ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V6 #48 *********************************