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...singer/songwriter began as an attempt to keep warm. While studying music production and engineering at the London School of Audio, Lord lived as a squatter in a room where the heat was operated by an electricity meter that ran on 50-pence coins. One day a street musician asked her to hold his guitar while he went to the bathroom. Lord, whose guitar skills at the time were crude at best, took the opportunity to play one of the few songs she knew, John Prine’s “Angel From Montgomery...
...sole product of Lord’s contract with The Work Group was the 1998 Got No Shadow, which she recorded with various session musicians. The album features guest appearances by several heavyweights, including Roger McGuinn of the Byrds and Jon 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...
...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...
...shoestring skills honed by 20 years of Hong Kong filmmaking did the rest. Doyle didn't pick up a camera until his late twenties, when he accompanied a musician friend on a 20-day trek around Taiwan to record folk songs: "He had a camera and I had the time." Without a visa and under the pseudonym Du Ke Feng ("like the wind"), he joined the news department of China Television, making documentaries for the Taiwanese version of 60 Minutes. Then, director friend Edward Yang invited Doyle to work on his feature debut That Day, On the Beach...
...when he served as a non-resident Chemistry tutor in Eliot House last year. “He performed in lecture at the end of Chem. 5 last year, so I knew that in addition to being a chemistry genius and excellent teacher, he was also a very talented musician,” says Morrissey...