From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V7 #19 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Saturday, February 21 2004 Volume 07 : Number 019 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] Re : jinglejangle-digest V7 #18 [AidMerr@aol.com] [MLL] Re: Concert Friday ["Marshall Levin" ] [MLL] Boston Herald... [K3285@aol.com] [MLL] Baltimore City Paper / Desperately Kind / Boston Globe [Patrick T P] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 05:36:35 -0500 From: AidMerr@aol.com Subject: [MLL] Re : jinglejangle-digest V7 #18 No comment... (apologies if this has already been posted - I've not been on the list long - but it needs sharing with the world. From www.amiright.com) - ------------------------------- Mary Lou Lord's, "Martian Saints" Misheard Lyrics: I cut up my ex-boyfriend Correct Lyrics: I called up my ex-boyfriend ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:17:21 -0500 From: "Marshall Levin" Subject: [MLL] Re: Concert Friday > Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:56:28 GMT > From: Patrick T Power > Subject: Re: [MLL] Concert Friday > > Since there are three bands playing (Mary Lou, The Gossip, Gingersol) according to the Middle East's website, it's likely that Mary Lou won't start until close to 10. > > But you didn't hear that from me!! My guess would have been 11ish, but I just called the box office and they said she should go on at around 12:15... ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:37:10 EST From: K3285@aol.com Subject: [MLL] Boston Herald... Lord's 'Blue' period By Sarah Rodman Friday, February 20, 2004 ``It wasn't this thing that was meant to compete or be over the top,'' says Mary Lou Lord of the rustic and reflective``Baby Blue,'' her first studio album in five years. ``It was just a lovely Polaroid and not a fixed-up, fluffed-up, proper photo shoot. Sometimes you can capture a much better sunset that way than if you planned it, really.'' Recorded in nine days in London with longtime collaborator Nick Saloman of the Bevis Frond, ``Baby Blue'' is rife with sparkling and clean piano licks, smoky harmonica runs and warm acoustic and electric guitars. It plays to Lord's delicate yet steely roots-rock strengths and examines themes of past, present and future. ``It's definitely not as in-your-face poppy'' as 1999's major label effort ``Got No Shadow,'' says Salem native Lord. ``It's a little bit more grownup at times and it's a lot more hushed as far as the delivery goes.'' Maturity is a major theme in songs as different as the softly inviting ``43'' - ``it's totally Mrs. Robinson in `The Graduate,' '' she says - and the folk-rocking opener ``The Wind Blew All Around Me.'' ``The last line says, `Look at me lying in the golden sand, look at me here with this note in my hand, I lost my gig to a tribute band,' '' she says. ``Metaphorically, what is that?It could be death or it could just be hanging up that rock 'n' roll jacket.'' Lord, who plays the Middle East in Cambridge tonight, more or less hung up her rock 'n' roll jacket when she became pregnant with her daughter five years ago, just as ``Got No Shadow'' was launched. For Lord, that effectively, but not unhappily, ended her expectations of a large-scale music career. ``It did well but labels all have a formula: You make a record and then you go on tour with Bob Dylan for a year. And if you're not going to support the record by touring, they're not going to support it either.'' Playing only sporadically and recording a live covers album, the singer-songwriter, who got her start busking in T and Tube stations in Boston and London, got fidgety. ``I'm a very good mom, but I didn't want to be just a mom. I am a musician and I do write songs and some people like me,'' she says with a laugh. ``The kissing goodbye to the music part has been a bummer.'' Getting back into it has been great fun, she says. ``I love Nick and it gave me a really good excuse to get back into this again and challenge myself and not just sit there all gloom and doom.'' Recording is one thing, however, while touring is quite another. Following tonight's gig, Lord hits the road for six weeks with labelmates Gingersol, who also serve as her backing band. She admits to some nervousness. ``I'm a completely neurotic back-seat driver,'' she says. ``By the end of the tour I'm going to be wrapped up in duct tape, shoved in the back with the equipment with a strip of tape over my mouth. I'm so bad, if anyone is going over 50 and I'm the passenger, I'm like, `Slow down!' '' She's also loath to leave her daughter behind, although she knows she'll be safe in Salem with Lord's husband, Kevin Patey of local rockabilly band the Raging Teens. ``When I went over to England to make the record, those two weeks were the longest I've been away from her, and I was going nuts.'' But growing up means making sacrifices and, Lord knows, she's a grownup. ``I listen to WBZ now and I watch PBS and the History Channel and `60 Minutes' when I catch it,'' she says with another laugh. ``It is weird but the flavors just become much more attractive. It's something that I never thought that I would be comfortable with, just because doing music gives you the pass to have an extended adolescence in a way and get away with it and still be cool. How can you be cool if you're grownup? But it is very cool and I'm finally embracing that side of myself.'' Lord also wanted to thank everyone who came to the recent Elliott Smith tribute concert she organized at T.T. the Bear's Place, in honor of her recently departed friend and tourmate. ``I couldn't have asked for a better day,'' says Lord, whose lovely new tune ``Farming It Out'' on ``Baby Blue'' has Smith's haunting sound stamped on it. ``It was sold out, we showed movies, everybody got to play that wanted to play. Twenty-two people played. It was just a really good day and we gave the proceeds to the Elliott Smith Fund. People needed a place to put their feelings and they got to give back to Elliott.'' ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 05:22:20 GMT From: Patrick T Power Subject: [MLL] Baltimore City Paper / Desperately Kind / Boston Globe A mini-preview of Mary Lou's show next week: http://tinyurl.com/yv9lu ...of Baby Blue" in "Desperately Kind": http://tinyurl.com/2rfhv ...and in the Globe: http://tinyurl.com/3cnbb Pat ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V7 #19 *********************************