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...wake of Lord’s double whammy, her record company abruptly curtailed promotion for the album. Without a tour to support it, sales fell short of their potential. For a female musician, Lord says, “it’s never the right time to have a baby, and it’s never the right time to go into rehab,” and yet she had done both simultaneously. Got No Shadow was be Lord’s first and last album released by The Work Group. Amid the sweeping music industry consolidations...
While obviously a milestone in Lord’s personal life, the birth of her daughter Annabelle has also ushered in a new stage of her professional life. As touring has become less practical, Lord is switching gears to focus on promoting the budding careers of new and unrecognized musicians. She views DJing, busking and music publishing as natural steps in a career devoted to the belief that “everyone deserves a good song.” Lord admits that finding new talent has been difficult because of her strict standards. “But I found something...
...Lord cannot contain her passion for long, grinning from rosy cheek to rosy cheek as she declares, “It’s Rachael Davis.” After hearing the young folk singer on the radio last summer, Lord persuaded her to relocate to New England and uses her own gigs to showcase Davis’ talent. She takes pride in the fact that Davis, who had never played outside of Michigan when they first met, is now up for a Boston Music Award. (Modest as always, Lord fails to mention her own nomination.) When Lord dragged...
...Lord is not upset by the fact that her career as a touring musician may be waning, or that superstardom has eluded her. “I think I was somewhat afraid of it,” she says. “I’ve seen success. I’ve seen it. I know what it would take to get there. And I was right there, I was so close. And I fucked it up. I did everything I could do to fuck it up. I think that there was a part of me that just knew that...
...decades after rebelling against her manager at the radio station, Lord still worries about the pressure to please others and fears letting them down. “I just really don’t want to be committed to having to prove myself to anyone, and I feel like that’s what happens when you become famous or when you become successful,” she says. “If I let myself down, that’s one thing. But if I let somebody down because I did a thing like having a baby or whatever...