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...needs to play for spare change, though she still enjoys playing in front of the Coop and in Brattle Square. Live City Sounds, her most recent release and her first for independent Rubric Records, quickly sold out its initial pressing and has generated excellent reviews. As an added bonus, Lord is nominated in the category of Best Singer/Songwriter for a Boston Music Award, which will be handed out on April 11 at the Orpheum Theatre...
Highly distrustful of music critics, Lord pays much less attention to press and awards than she does to her fans. Live City Sounds is an attempt to bottle the subterranean magic that has made T-riders reach into their pockets and purses for more than a decade. As she recently explained to Rolling Stone, “I figured people have been so supportive and generous, why not give them exactly what they’d heard. It’s why they liked me in the first place.” The album’s 16 tracks, which...
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...
...Lord, the glory of busking lies in the artistic freedom it affords her. “When you’re in the studio, you’re always looking at the clock, and on a stage I’ve never felt completely comfortable,” she says. She attributes her uneasiness on stage to the pressure she feels to please pre-paying customers. “I don’t want to have to do shit for them,” she says. “I’d rather play and then have them...
...early years of playing subways and streets in London and Boston allowed Lord to be a DJ again without the fetters of a playlist. She made it her mission to disseminate her favorite obscure songs, especially the work of then-unknown Shawn Colvin, who had yet to release an album. Lord vividly remembers when she first saw Colvin perform in 1988 at the Somerville Theatre. “Her songs were so good that I had to learn them,” she says. “I was just floored. I just sat there and I cried...