From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V6 #61 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Wednesday, November 5 2003 Volume 06 : Number 061 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] New Album Baby Blue Out in February [Hanson Ho ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 11:14:39 -0800 From: Hanson Ho Subject: [MLL] New Album Baby Blue Out in February News from Pitchfork (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/03-11/04.shtml#story3) //------------------------------- Mary Lou Lord To Release Second Studio Album In February Second coming of Lord probably inevitable given recent pre-apocalyptic events [Posted Tuesday, November 4th, 2003 04:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time] Chris Rediske reports: By any measure, Mary Lou Lord has had a bit of an odd career so far. Starting out playing subways in Boston, she attracted the attention of Kill Rock Stars and recorded a couple of EP's, put out one album on Sony's ill-fated WORK label, and then proceeded to mostly disappear for a bit. Then she had a child, which apparently provided her with the proper motivation to head back into the subways, of course-- hey, she's gotta provide. Her most recent release, 2001's Live City Sounds, collected a number of those subterranean performances, and was relatively well received and not nearly as crappy-sounding as you might suppose for a single-mic, in-the-subway affair. Numerous reports have placed Lord in London over much of the last year, recording with long-time collaborator Nick Saloman of The Bevis Frond. Now she's back in the states, the album is finished, and she's even planning to play a proper tour or two. Take that, commuters of Boston: you're just going to have to listen to the crazy old guy with the accordion and the drum machine from now on. According to David Gwiazdowski of Rubric Records, the new album is titled Baby Blue, after the included Badfinger cover (also recently covered by Portastatic-- getting quite a workout for one '70s power-pop song), and consists largely of Nick Saloman tunes penned specifically for Lord. She'll be backed by a full band on the album, which is scheduled to be released on February 24th, 2004. Here's the tracklist (all songs by Nick Saloman except where noted): 01 The Wind Blew All Around Me [The Bevis Frond] 02 Long Way From Tupelo [Mary Lou Lord] 03 43 04 Baby Blue [Badfinger] 05 Cold Kilburn Rain 06 Farming It Out 07 The Inhibition Twist [The Bevis Frond] 08 Because He's Leaving 09 Someone Always Talks 10 Turn Me Round [Saloman/Lord] 11 Stars Burn Out [The Bevis Frond] 12 Ron 13 Fearless [Pink Floyd] 14 Old Tin Tray Lord has played the occasional show recently, and according to fansite Not Necessarily The Best Homepage, a more comprehensive U.S. and European tour is planned for spring 2004. We will, of course, bring you the dates when they're available. Lord also recently commented on the death of close friend Elliott Smith, who played some guitar on Got No Shadow and wrote one of Lord's signature tunes, "I Figured You Out." "He sort of shut everyone out for the last three or four years," Lord told the Associated Press. "He just became really reclusive... maybe he was in a downward spiral and he didn't want to take everyone else with him." - -- "Oi with the poodles already!" Synapse to Synapse 2.0: http://www.sfu.ca/~hwho/ My Indie World: http://myindieworld.blogspot.com ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V6 #61 *********************************