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...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...
...puzzling analogy, considering that it comes from a woman who is 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...
...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 of 1999, the label folded, transferring some artists to Sony’s Epic label and dropping the others. Whereas the demise of the Work Group might once have brought...
...first mammogram at age 62 and another a year later. The second one showed a shadow that turned out to be an early cancer that was virulent enough to pass on to my lymph nodes. I had a mastectomy and six months of chemotherapy. Thirteen years later, I am cancer free. Without that mammogram, I wouldn't today be a cancer survivor. Go get that mammogram! BERNICE RUBINSTEIN Baltimore...
...Swiss city of Lausanne is an enclave of cool. Roller-bladers fizz through its parks, students and locals with time to talk and money to spend fill the cafés and clubs, posters tell of a vibrant arts scene. But up near the Old Town, in the shadow of the gothic St. Laurent Church, the tolerance and discreet charm of the Lausannois has been stretched to the snapping point lately by scores of African asylum seekers peddling cocaine on its ancient, narrow streets...