She's really cute and plays you with the vulnerability angle (and confesses to it), but you can't help rooting for Mary Lou Lord anyway. Sunday night at Cafe Nine, she played a wonderful acoustic hour-plus set to a packed house, seeming genuinely surprised that there were so many in attendance and that they knew her songs.
Lord is afflicted with spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder that involves involuntary spasms of the vocal cords which can make one's voice sound strained or strangled (similar to that of Linda Thompson, whom she emails daily) and told us that she hadn't performed in quite some time. During the set, she gave a nod to Elvis' Latest Flame with her His Lamest Flame and to Salem's Elizabeth Montgomery (did I note a similarity in face?) with She's Still Bewitching Me (after all these years).
After the show, I picked up her LIVE City Sounds, which was recorded live (per the liner notes) in the subway at Park Street in Boston and Harvard Square in the fall of 2000. She recorded it herself with a portable DAT.
I caught an enjoyable slice of the Shellye Valauskas Experience's opening set, but turned down a slice of her Lithuanian (or something like that) birthday cake served shortly thereafter as her many friends/family in attendance serenaded her. It allowed me to sneak into better position near the bar.
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Eric Danton, Htfd Courant rock critic, concert review - here
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