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...introduction is quite fitting, considering that Mary Lou Lord??s career as a singer/songwriter began as an attempt to keep warm. While studying music production and engineering at the London School of Audio, Lord lived as a squatter in a room where the heat was operated by an electricity meter that ran on 50-pence coins. One day a street musician asked her to hold his guitar while he went to the bathroom. Lord, whose guitar skills at the time were crude at best, took the opportunity to play one of the few songs she knew, John Prine?...
...Square, consist almost entirely of covers, including Big Star’s “Thirteen,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road” and the Pogues’ “Sayonara.” The disc also features songs by Lord??s longtime friends Nick Saloman (of the Bevis Frond) and Grammy-winning mainstream breakout Shawn Colvin (of “Sunny Came Home” fame...
...Many of Lord??s fans view the live album as a refreshing follow-up to her major label debut in 1998, which was produced in a studio with a band. One purist commented, “Mary Lou Lord is best just stripped down to an acoustic guitar. You can’t get any closer to real sound than that. Overproduction ruins music.” The intimate street performances allow Lord??s audience to connect with her on a level that other venues do not permit. To know the effect of her playing...
...story of Lord??s transformation from a struggling busker to a major-label recording artist is well known to her fans and filled with twists and turns that will one day make for a fine “Behind The Music.” The underground Boston music scene brought Lord into the path of a woman named Tinuviel, a punk rocker based in Olympia, Wash., who was spending her summer in Boston. They became close friends and several months later Lord moved to Olympia to join Tinuviel and Slim Moon, the man who ran Kill Rock Stars...
...great Viennese psychotherapist Viktor Frankl wrote, “Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord??s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.” This quotation, found in Frankl’s seminal work, Man’s Search for Meaning, is a reminder that even in the darkness of great evil the light of human dignity shines...