Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second release, Martian Saints!, somehow neglected her characteristic earthiness and honesty in favor of the slickness of the package. Ironically, Lord is most disappointed in the delivery of the last two songs on the album, which returned to the acoustic route. Her versions of Pete Droge's "Sunspot Stopwatch" and Peter Laughner's "Cinderella Backstreet," she laments, were "done a long time ago" and therefore "rough around the edges." It's a little dubious, then, whether a full-length band album can successfully maintain the sincerity of Mary Lou Lord while integrating studio production elements...
According to Lord, the five months she's spent in the studio have all but obliterated any uncertainty she may have had regarding the artistic feasibility of a studio recording of subway songs. She's done her time touring the country, made some friends and foes and brings less venomous alliances with her into the new effort: Stevie Nicks and Shawn Colvin sing backup up some of the tracks...
Colvin, in particular, has been incredibly supportive throughout Lord's progression from subway singer to indie artist. Lord refers to her as an "inspirator and guardian angel" and is psyched that Colvin has met with her own commercial success. "I've always felt that it's my mission in life to turn the world on to Shawn Colvin," she says. Lord calls Colvin's contribution to Got No Shadow "haunting," and remarks "It's very rare to love anything I do, but this...this is a beautiful record...
...Middle East, Lord teased the audience by starting her set with a Ween cover, and then moving on to two new original pieces--"His Lamest Flame" and "Western Union Song"--which may or may not appear on Got No Shadow. Although Lord played both songs solo, either could easily be adapted as band material, especially "His Lamest Flame," an upbeat and gregarious sour grapes song which wouldn't easily be adulterated by backup accompaniment. The audience responded enthusiastically to the new material, crowding up to the stage for the first time during the sequence of bands that evening; they also...
...large extent, Lord's artistic sustenance has depended on her ability to draw a crowd to her stage; busking (playing in subways) in Boston, Seattle and L.A. requires an artist's material to have a certain universal appeal...