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	Article: "The Mystery of Style Evolved: Lori McKenna at Rosendale Cafe" (by Irv Yarg) (06/26/02)
		Now, Lori McKenna, a rising talent from Stoughton, Massachusetts, who'll be playing her first area gig at Rosendale Cafe this Saturday evening, has lived all of her 32 years in an area crawling with Red Sox fans and she has scarcely a trace of Bostonian inflection in her normal speaking voice.
		McKenna acknowledges seeing a vocal coach when she first started playing local clubs, learning new breathing techniques and modifying a natural twist in her tone which drifted in unexpectedly now and then but, she insists, she doesn't sound dramatically different now than she did six years ago at her professional debut.
		McKenna recalls a time when an office she was working at was putting in an answering machine system and McKenna was the first of 10 women in the office to be nixed for the role of machine voice because her accent was "too strong."
	www.hvmusic.com /article/yarg/lori_mckenna/index.shtml (1546 words)

	Lori McKenna
		Lori McKenna is a mother of five from Stoughton, Mass.
		Lori McKenna is also an acclaimed singer-songwriter who has just been thrust into the limelight thanks to superstar Faith Hill's decision to record three of McKenna's songs for her chart-topping Fireflies album.
		McKenna's unique talent for getting such honest emotion on paper may be the result of her similarly unique career path.
	www.lorimckenna.com /?view=press&press_id=13 (982 words)

	TANGMONKEY.COM [ REVIEW: Lori McKenna: Pieces of Me ]
		Lori McKenna's free, agile voice bounds from word to word, coaxing meaning from simple turns of phrase, singing with a joy that's enough to clear the clouds.
		Lori McKenna's sophomore album is a fine collection of songs, wrapping longing and loving around subtle-voiced tunes and a moving, confessional spirit.
		McKenna is at her strongest when she is singing of twilight, and although she stumbles over some happier songs, it's more than made up for in the fiery melancholy of the others.
	www.tangmonkey.com /columns/102494460040920.php (717 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Living / Arts / Calendar / Lori McKenna unfurls her new rocking sound
		Music runs in singer-songwriter Lori McKenna's family, and like the number of people in her household, McKenna's musical palette is ever-expanding.
		The disc is McKenna's first studio album in three years (she released an Internet-only collection of homemade recordings last year), and it heralds a departure from her acoustic folk beginnings.
		McKenna's favorite subjects and observations -- rural snapshots of small-town American life and the restless wanderlust and homespun comforts such a life can bring -- remain intact, as does her tailor-made twang.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/calendar/articles/2004/04/22/lori_mckenna_unfurls_her_new_rocking_sound?mode=PF (511 words)

	George Graham Reviews Lori McKenna's "Bittertown"
		McKenna, home is Stoughton, Massachusetts, a small town southwest of Boston, where, during the recording of this CD, she was expecting her fifth child.
		Lori McKenna emerged on the well-populated Bay State folk and singer-songwriter scene with an independent debut album in 1998 called Paper Wings and Halo, which attracted critical praise, and led to her recording for the Western-Massachusetts-based national folk label Signature Sounds Records.
		Massachusetts singer-songwriter Lori McKenna, on her new CD Bittertown created a thoughtful and appealing CD that not only has tasteful musicianship and worthwhile songs, but is rather like a well-executed concept album, with most of the songs arising from the ordinary lives and passions of the hypothetical town's citizens.
	georgegraham.com /reviews/mckenna.html (828 words)

	Allindie.com \| Bands \| Lori McKenna
		Lori McKenna's debut CD was selected as one of the Top 10 albums of 1998 by The Boston Globe and heralded as "the most impressive local debut since Dar Williams' The Honesty Room."
		The listeners and staff at WUMB 91.9 FM in Boston then voted Lori new artist of the year, in April she took home the Boston Music Award for Outstanding Debut Contemporary Folk Act, and in May she won the Boston Lilith Fair talent search, which snagged her a spot on the Lilith Fair tour.
		As Lori continues to gain critical acclaim and wow audiences in the Northeast, her fan base is spreading across the US and even abroad, based almost exclusively on word-of-mouth.
	www.allindie.com /bands/mckenna (251 words)

	Lori McKenna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		McKenna has been making and releasing independent albums to critical acclaim since 1998 and rose to prominence on Music Row after landing three cuts, including the title track, on Warner Bros. recording artist Faith Hill's #1 album, Fireflies.
		Now, with her first major label recording contract, the magic of Lori McKenna's music will be available to the masses.
		Warner Bros. is thrilled to have Lori onboard, and is excited to have the opportunity bring her music to the world.
	www.lorimckenna.com /?view=press&press_id=13 (269 words)

	pastemusic.com: Lori McKenna
		This new internet-only release from acclaimed songwriter Lori McKenna, featuring 12 new songs and a cover of Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees." The album was recorded live in Lori's kitchen, and features her amazing voice and guitar-playing.
		McKenna signed to Signature Sounds in 2001 and released her second album, the roots-pop Pieces of Me which garnered McKenna rave comparisons to Rosanne Cash, Lucinda Williams, and Nanci Griffith.
		Recorded entirely by McKenna at her kitchen table in under an hour one afternoon armed with just her guitar, a cheap microphone, and her mini-disc player, this accidental album was intended only to preserve some freshly written songs.
	www.pastestore.com /artist/10226 (1277 words)

	LORI McKENNA "Bittertown" Signature Sounds (washingtonpost.com)
		McKenna never looks down on these couples and their kids, but neither does she give them a soap-opera gloss or a family-values halo.
		McKenna lives with her plumber husband and four kids a stone's throw from her childhood home in the blue-collar, South Shore town of Stoughton, Mass.
		McKenna has a pinched soprano, but she uses it effectively in these songs of mixed feelings, never naive about her hopes and never whining about her disappointments.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A59726-2004Aug12.html (336 words)

	SingSong PR - Lori McKenna - CD album - Pieces Of Me
		While McKenna grew up listening to the radio music of her day - the Cure's "Just Like Heaven" remains one of her favorite songs to cover - the music she penned at her kitchen table, after the kids had been sent off to school, has drawn more immediate comparisons.
		While she'll tell you that hers was a musical family, there was nothing in her upbringing to suggest the magic she unleashed on Paper Wings and Halo, the 1998 self-released CD that quickly placed her among the elite of New England's teeming singer-songwriter scene.
		For many people, their introduction to McKenna may have been the song "Fireflies", which was featured on the much acclaimed Respond benefit CD (Signature Sounds), including Billboard's Album of the Year honors.
	www.pmpr.co.uk /msm26.htm (527 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Magazine :: Homegrown Folk Fare
		Josh Ritter and Lori McKenna, performing at the Paradise next Thursday night, are two Boston-area singer/songwriters who present their listeners with thought-provoking lyrics and sweet melodies as an antidote to the mainstream.
		Lori McKenna’s voice has the warble of a country singer, but she says she’s never been particularly admiring of country music.
		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.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=254687 (541 words)

	FolkWeb: Artist Page: Lori McKenna
		Signature Sounds/Catalyst Disc is proud to present the first chapter in the Lori McKenna story, a re-issue of her debut album Paper Wings & Halo.
		Lori McKenna stunned the music world with her debut CD "Paper Wings & Halo" and has come back to release a record surpassing and expectations you thought possible.
		McKenna's new CD is masterfully produced by Crit Harmon and she is joined by a who's who of the best in singer-songwriters including Ellis Paul, Richard Shindell, Jennifer Kimball, Meghan Toohey and Kris Delmhorst.
	www.folkweb.com /lorimckenna (882 words)

	ASCAP Audio Portrait: Lori McKenna
		Lori McKenna's songs are strong snapshots of personal struggles in working-class America.
		McKenna draws on her experiences to sing about people who are restless and hoping for more.
		Bittertown - Lori McKenna describes her hometown of Stoughton, MA, the backdrop for many of her songs.
	www.ascap.com /audioportraits/lorimckenna.html (146 words)

	Lori McKenna, Paper Wings & Halo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Thankfully, the association was fleeting, and McKenna immediately asserted herself as a rich and powerful singer-songwriter, clever and sincere as I feel the best of such singers are.
		McKenna painfully evokes the pull backwards alongside the resignation that comes when that battle has finished without one side's quite ready to admit defeat and leave the battlefield.
		McKenna here highlights the jealousy and secrets that remain concerning certain people which are a part of you through past closeness but are necessarily moving on without you.
	www.rambles.net /mckenna_paper.html (1240 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lori McKenna isn't from South Carolina, Texas or Southern Mississippi — she was born and raised in Stoughton, on the south shore of Massachusetts, just a stone's throw from where she now lives, writes and raises her four children.
		Lori is an exceptional example of how some songwriters just seem to find their way to the homespun sound of a strummed acoustic guitar, an honest voice and a touch of twang.
		While Lori grew up listening to the radio music of her day — The Cure's "Just Like Heaven" remains one of her favorite songs to cover —; the music she pens at her kitchen table, after the kids have been sent off the school, has drawn more immediate comparisons.
	www.soup.org /pr2003-44.html (474 words)

	Lori McKenna
		Lori also has a rather unique vision for a songwriter, having married and mothered early, and staying in the neighborhood where she was raised, in the South Shore town of Stoughton, Massachusetts.
		And when you combine those qualities with the beauty and power of her music, it's no wonder that people are falling in love with her, now all over the globe.
		There are also rumors of a major label deal for Lori as an artist, and it's easy to predict that she is going to get a Lot bigger in the next five years.
	www.puremusic.com /lori1.html (477 words)

	Lori McKenna - Bittertown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		McKenna tells their stories of hard times, devotion, young love, suicide, stealing kisses and drinkin’ beer behind the high school with a unique understanding and authenticity.
		McKenna’s fourth album of alt country and folk rock places her firmly in the same league as Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams and Patty Griffin.
		Bittertown is a bittersweet and darkly beautiful place where Lori McKenna does her best to bring a little sunshine.
	www.730ckdm.com /cd/LoriMcKenna-Bittertown.htm (152 words)

	Songwriter Lori Mckenna to perform at Railway Café - iBerkshires.com - Home
		McKenna, a 32 year-old mother of four whose love of music and performing had her taking the stage well into the last trimester of her most recent pregnancy, isn’t from South Carolina, southern Mississippi, or even southern California.
		No, McKenna was born and raised on the south shore of Massachusetts, just a stone’s throw from where she now lives, writes, and raises her four kids in Stoughton, Massachusetts.
		Lori is currently recording her next project, due to be released on Signature Sounds in the Spring of 2004.
	www.iberkshires.com /story.php?story_id=12802 (599 words)

	Amazon.com: Bittertown: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		These songs grab you with Lori's signature strident, soulful, and unapologetic vocals sharing earnest observations and stories of growing up and growing old, of loves and losses, winners and losers, guns and god, and drinkers and dreamers in a town that is resting uncomfortably between its blue collar roots and modern suburbia.
		Incapable of artifice, Lori McKenna speaks of the bitter and the sweet, but doesn't simply write songs, she documents her life, and in turn ours, in word and melody.
		McKenna's voice is riveting, her songwriting is stark and original, and the band backs her up like a fond embrace.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0001Z4PGE?v=glance (1300 words)

	She seems right at home with growing fame - The Boston Globe
		As McKenna recounts the recent Oprah crew visit, she reveals a glimpse of the down-home charm and honesty that permeates her songs.
		McKenna doubted her songs could take her much further than her small local stardom.
		There are at least six people in McKenna's life who seem determined to ensure that fame doesn't spoil her.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2005/09/24/she_seems_right_at_home_with_growing_fame (1040 words)

	Lori McKenna to perform tomorrow at downtown cafe: 10/ 13/ 2005
		Lori McKenna, who recently signed a new recording contract with Warner Bros. Records, will perform at Cafe Arpeggio in New Bedford tomorrow evening.
		McKenna has been creating a body of work that is beginning to receive nationwide recognition.
		Three of her songs have been included on the new bestselling album by Faith Hill, including the title track, "Fireflies." She has signed a new recording contract with Warner Bros. Records and was invited to appear on "Oprah" for a full hour segment with Faith Hill.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/10-05/10-13-05/c06co431.htm (386 words)

	music reviews
		Early in the set, Kris asked Lori to join her on stage to sing background vocals on one song.
		Sorry that I can't remember the song, but Lori sounded beautiful, and I told her just that when she walked right by me after leaving the stage.
		Lori is apparently a housewife and mother of 4 who lives in the town where she grew up, Staunton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.
	unit14.net /mckenna.html (802 words)

	Suffragette Station Top Ten of 2004
		Lori McKenna may be the best singer-songwriter of our time.
		Lori's third full-length release, Bittertown, features more alt-country influences, but if you strip it all down to the bare bones, you're left with Lori's rich songs sung in her haunting voice.
		And that really is the essence of Lori's music -- rich songs that haunt you like a memory of a life so familiar yet agonizingly out of reach.
	www.geocities.com /Colosseum/Midfield/1244/ss/top2004.html (1154 words)

	Custom Pets Dog Training - About The Trainers
		Lori's education and experience in canine behavior and her love of working with dogs has led her to develop the Everyday Obedience program, which helps to provide a common language between dogs and their owners.
		Lori’s an avid dog lover and finds dog training to be ultimately rewarding.Her lifelong dream has been to train dogs professionally, so she’s thrilled to have been given this opportunity to learn from and train alongside Lori McKenna of Custom Pets Dog Training.
		Lori hopes Lucy will be ready to begin her agility career in 2006.
	www.custompets.com /bio.htm (410 words)

	Lori McKenna
		Frank Black, Matthew Sweet, Lori McKenna, John P. Strohm (The Blake Babies), Kristin Hersh (Throwing Muses), and the Dresden Dolls are just several of the great artists covering tracks from films like Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Say Anything, Valley Girl, Repo Man, and more.
		Lori was also a presenter at the awards ceremony Wednesday night at The Avalon Rock Club in Boston.
		Lori McKenna's "Bible Song" was selected to be featured on a forthcoming Americana Music Association retail sampler along with artists like Johnny Cash, The Jayhawks, Lucinda Williams, Willie Nelson and others.
	www.lorimckenna.com (1070 words)

	Fishman Transducers, Inc - Who's Using Fishman
		Lori McKenna is a mother of five from
		There, she lives quietly—well, as quietly as a house with five children can get—with her husband of 17 years, Gene, a plumber for the local gas company.
		Lori McKenna is also an acclaimed singer-songwriter who has just been thrust into the limelight thanks to superstar Faith Hill’s decision to record three of McKenna’s songs for her chart-topping
	www.fishman.com /artists?id=451 (216 words)

	dreamsawake.com - Interview - Lori McKenna
		Okay, so she's only joking about writing the book, but she did get married eight years before she played her first open mic, and by that time she was well on her way to raising a family.
		McKenna, 33, has a cooler job than most of her peers.
		McKenna says that she is hooked to world news.
	www.dreamsawake.com /interviews/lorimckenna (2023 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		McKenna, a 31 year-old mother of four, now only lives a stone's throw from where she was born and raised.
		For so many people, their introduction to Lori may have been the song "Fireflies," which was featured on the much acclaimed Respond benefit CD (Signature Sounds), including Billboard's Album of the Year honors.
		Like Lori, Maria spent her childhood on Massachusetts' South Shore, singing since she could hear the "angel of music" while riding in the back seat of her parents' blue Chevy wagon.
	www.soup.org /pr2002-45.html (517 words)

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