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...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, an acclaimed small record label that...
Through Moon, Lord met two people who would greatly influence the course of her career. After a gig in Portland in 1995, Moon introduced her to future Academy Award nominee Elliott Smith, who instantly became one of her favorite songwriters. “I’ve never heard a piece-of-shit guitar sound so good,” Lord recalls of her first exposure to Smith. The two decided to tour together, and each of them released a self-titled album on Kill Rock Stars. Later that year, Moon persuaded a BMG Music Publishing executive named Margaret Mittleman...
Mittleman’s crazy guy turned out to be Beck, and the phenomenal success of Mellow Gold and Odelay spurred record companies to court her next catch aggressively. After being wined and dined by more than a dozen labels, Lord decided to sign with The Work Group, a Sony label that had released Fiona Apple’s Tidal and several albums from Jamiroquai. The Mary Lou Lord with little more to her name than a guitar and a futon was no more—she had become a big-league recording artist with a six-figure advance...
...Brion, a versatile Los Angeles musician who has produced albums for Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple and Rufus Wainwright. Lord’s old friends Colvin and Smith contributed as well. Though the album received a solid three-and-a-half stars from Rolling Stone and many other kudos, Lord says she feels it lacks emotion and energy. “If we had been in a band, we would have had the right dynamic,” she says. “It was just missing the thing you get when you’re in a band and you?...
...busy raising a three-year-old child, and it sheds light on the jarring effect that childbirth had on Lord’s career. The success of Got No Shadow was tempered by two events that occurred soon after its release. Within the space of a few weeks, Lord checked into rehab for alcoholism and discovered that she was pregnant. Although Lord says she was very much in love with the baby’s father, long-time boyfriend Kevin Patey of the Raging Teens, the pregnancy was not planned. As for her heavy drinking, she says the habit arose...