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...level of faith commitment." How better to test that commitment than to leave the classroom door wide open? Waters' class is held at the back of the church grounds--so that anyone can easily hop on a skateboard and go. --Reported by Amy Bonesteel and Collette McKenna Parker/Atlanta, Amanda Bower/New York, Karen Ann Cullotta/Chicago, Adam Pitluk/Longview, Jill Underwood/San Diego and Alice Jackson Baughn/Pensacola
...voice has the warble of a country singer, but she says she’s never been particularly admiring of country music. Growing up, she always thought she had an “ugly voice” and never tried to hone it. As an adult, McKenna saw a vocal coach because she felt she was singing wrong, as her talking voice was different from her singing one. The coach told McKenna that, “I was talking wrong,” she says with a laugh...
...McKenna felt a literary urge when a teen, but discovered that her attention span was not up to the extended demands of writing a novel. At the time, she was playing guitar and found she did have enough patience for songwriting, which soon became her literary form. For 12 years, McKenna wrote songs for herself. Now, though her songs remain personal, she says that “the best thing [she] can wish for” is that listeners can identify with her music and derive from it the consolation it has given McKenna...
These days, Lori McKenna is busy with her four children and is in the process of recording a new studio album. Unsurprisingly, McKenna’s songs revolve around relationships and love within the different elements of the family. She gets her inspiration from watching people and “how they manage to get through [life],” she says. The songs on her new album, Pieces of Me, range from upbeat folk-rock to slow music in a minor key reminiscent of the Goo Goo Dolls. The arrangements are denser than Ritter’s. Many...
...you’re in search of good music? Maybe you should check out Josh Ritter and Lori McKenna at the Paradise next Thursday...