From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V7 #20 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Monday, February 23 2004 Volume 07 : Number 020 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [none] [Lisa Price ] [MLL] Herald review of Middle East show... [K3285@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 13:44:47 -0800 (PST) From: Lisa Price Subject: [none] How do I get removed from this list? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:52:01 EST From: K3285@aol.com Subject: [MLL] Herald review of Middle East show... Lord deserves praise for her fun, `Baby Blue' style By Sarah Rodman Sunday, February 22, 2004 Adorable and steely are not usually adjectives used to describe one individual. But there was Mary Lou Lord onstage Friday night at the Middle East Club downstairs grinning and joking and flashing her girlish smile one moment and riveting in her delicacy, giving voice to her musical rage and somehow sweetly spewing invective at Courtney Love the next. In a fun, if occasionally ramshackle, 80-minute performance, Lord and her backing band, labelmates Gingersol, who served as one of the opening acts, breathed life into the hushed and lovely songs from her upcoming album ``Baby Blue'' and her back catalog, many written by Bevis Frond leader Nick Saloman, Lord herself and a raft of excellent covers. For those used to hearing Lord in an acoustic setting - often in the Red Line Park Street Station - the band was a welcome addition. Especially tart was the searing, heartbreaking ``She Had You,'' which featured some scorching Neil Young-esque guitar solos from the evening's occasional guest Dave Fisher, and Lord claimed was not about Courtney Love, whom she proclaimed was ``going down.'' Acoustic sets were littered with gems including the despairing ballad ``Ron,'' the detailed observations of ``Camden Town Rain,'' a spirited run through the Richard Thompson motorcycle melodrama ``1952 Vincent Black Lightning'' and the brief, Elliot Smith-style ``Farming it Out.'' The late Smith, a friend, tourmate and musical kindred spirit of Lord's, was given props by a reverential audience member Lord invited onstage to sing his dreamy ``Say, Yes,'' and Lord dedicated a poignant rendition of Bob Dylan's ``You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go'' to the songwriter. Joking about mentoring a young fan in the audience and her own musical explorations of growing older, Lord explained how she has gone from the press-anointed ``indie princess'' to an ``indie auntie.'' It's a role that suits her just right. Arkansas punk blues trio the Gossip served as a stunning warm-up act, heating up the crowd with its gritty, gutbucket blooze. The group blazed through a white-hot 40-minute set. ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V7 #20 *********************************