Lori McKenna

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The Time I've Wasted 00:00 Tools
Wreck You 03:18 Tools
Your Next Lover 04:28 Tools
Falter 00:00 Tools
Witness To Your Life 03:32 Tools
Unglamorous 00:00 Tools
I Know You 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Problem 00:00 Tools
Humble & Kind 04:04 Tools
I'm Not Crazy 00:00 Tools
What's One More Time 00:00 Tools
Confetti 00:00 Tools
People Get Old 03:42 Tools
Leaving This Life 00:00 Tools
How To Survive 00:00 Tools
Fireflies 00:00 Tools
The Bird & The Rifle 00:00 Tools
The Lot Behind St. Mary's 00:00 Tools
Stealing Kisses 00:00 Tools
Mr. Sunshine 00:00 Tools
Hardly Speaking a Word 00:00 Tools
Pour 00:00 Tools
It's Easy When You Smile 00:00 Tools
Written Permission 00:00 Tools
Would You Love Me Then 00:00 Tools
Ruby's Shoes 00:00 Tools
Two Solders Coming Home 00:00 Tools
Buy This Town 00:00 Tools
Don't Tell Her 00:00 Tools
Bible Song 00:00 Tools
Swallows Me Whole 00:00 Tools
Giving up on Your Hometown 00:00 Tools
Salt 00:00 Tools
The Luxury of Knowing 03:50 Tools
A Mother Never Rests 00:00 Tools
Monday Afternoon 00:00 Tools
Halfway Home 00:00 Tools
Never Die Young 00:00 Tools
Numbered Doors 00:00 Tools
We Were Cool 00:00 Tools
All These Things 00:00 Tools
Old Men Young Women 00:00 Tools
As I Am 00:00 Tools
Paper Wings & Halo 00:00 Tools
The Most 00:00 Tools
Girl Like Me 00:00 Tools
My Love Follows You Where You Go 03:37 Tools
The Needle and the Damage Done 00:00 Tools
Never Be Back 00:00 Tools
One Man 00:00 Tools
Lorraine 00:00 Tools
Happy People 00:00 Tools
Young and Angry Again 00:00 Tools
If Whiskey Were a Woman 00:00 Tools
Always Want You 00:00 Tools
The Fixer 00:00 Tools
Make Every Word Hurt 00:00 Tools
Grown Up Now 00:00 Tools
Beautiful Man 00:00 Tools
Paying the Price 00:00 Tools
If He Tried 00:00 Tools
If You Ask 00:00 Tools
Mars 00:00 Tools
You Can't Break a Woman 00:00 Tools
The Tree 00:00 Tools
You Won't Even Know I'm Gone 00:00 Tools
Holy Water 00:00 Tools
Deserving Song 00:00 Tools
Susanna 04:08 Tools
Sweet Disposition 00:00 Tools
Pieces of Me 00:00 Tools
One Kiss Goodnight 00:00 Tools
You Get a Love Song 00:00 Tools
How Romantic Is That 00:00 Tools
Paper Wings and Halo 00:00 Tools
The Way Back Home 00:00 Tools
Like Patsy Would 00:00 Tools
All I Ever Do 00:00 Tools
God Will Thank You 00:00 Tools
Smaller and Smaller 00:00 Tools
God Never Made One of Us to Be Alone 00:00 Tools
Instead 00:00 Tools
The Ledge 00:00 Tools
That's How You Know 00:00 Tools
Rocket Science 00:00 Tools
Shake 00:00 Tools
You Are Loved 00:00 Tools
Take Me With You When You Go 00:00 Tools
Fake Plastic Trees 00:00 Tools
Pink Sweater 00:00 Tools
Silver Bus 00:00 Tools
Better With Time 00:00 Tools
Cowardly Lion 00:00 Tools
My Sweetheart 00:00 Tools
Shouting 00:00 Tools
This Fire 00:00 Tools
Still Down Here 00:00 Tools
Stranger in His Kiss 00:00 Tools
American Revolver 00:00 Tools
Ladders & Parachutes 00:00 Tools
In Your Eyes 00:00 Tools
Love Can Put It Back Together 00:00 Tools
Rose of Jericho 00:00 Tools
All A Woman Wants 00:00 Tools
Mercy Now 00:00 Tools
Borrow Me 00:00 Tools
Good Marriage 00:00 Tools
Sometimes He Does 00:00 Tools
Starlight 00:00 Tools
Mr. Sunshine (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Three Kids No Husband 00:00 Tools
Lonestar 00:00 Tools
Love to Be Cruel for (feat. Mark Erelli) 00:00 Tools
If You Ask (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
What's Shakin' on the Hill 00:00 Tools
How to Be Righteous 00:00 Tools
Silver Bus (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
The Ledge (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Pour (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Lone Star 00:00 Tools
One Man (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Monday Afternoon (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
The Other Boys 00:00 Tools
Stealing Kisses (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
One Kiss Goodnight (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
All It Takes 00:00 Tools
Cowardly Lion (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Bible Song (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Unfinished Song #57 00:00 Tools
Lonestar (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
My Sweetheart (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Whiskey and Chewing Gum 00:00 Tools
You Better 00:00 Tools
Dance with the Ladies 00:00 Tools
Feeding The Angels 00:00 Tools
No Hard Feelings 00:00 Tools
Jealousy 00:00 Tools
Afternoons 00:00 Tools
This and the Next Life 00:00 Tools
Heart Shaped Bullet Hole 00:00 Tools
Not in This Life (live) 00:00 Tools
Mama's Cooking (amazon Original) 00:00 Tools
Unglamorous (Radio Edit) 00:00 Tools
Paper Wings and Halo (live) 00:00 Tools
Humble and Kind 00:00 Tools
Mercy Now (feat. Mark Erelli, Zach Hickman & Nathan Chapman) 00:00 Tools
The Bird And The Rifle 00:00 Tools
Josephine (live) 00:00 Tools
Fake Plastic Trees (Radiohead Cover) 00:00 Tools
In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel cover) 00:00 Tools
In This Fire 00:00 Tools
Abbie is Sad 00:00 Tools
Lori McKenna - One Kiss Goodnight 00:00 Tools
big dreams 00:00 Tools
Map Back To You 00:00 Tools
Unglamorous [Edit] 00:00 Tools
Sick of That Lie (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Impossible 00:00 Tools
Lori McKenna - One Man 00:00 Tools
Jealously 00:00 Tools
The Bird The Rifle 00:00 Tools
Swallows Me Whole (Live) 00:00 Tools
Girl Crush [Cello Version] 00:00 Tools
Ignorance 00:00 Tools
Wish List 00:00 Tools
“Still Down Here” 00:00 Tools
I Know You (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Josephine 00:00 Tools
Witness To Your Life (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
I'm Not Crazy (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Your Next Lover (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Humble Kind 00:00 Tools
Paper Wings And Halo [Live] 00:00 Tools
Swallows Me Whole [live] 00:00 Tools
Holy Water [live] 00:00 Tools
Unglamorous (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Falter (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Holy Water (Live) 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Problem (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
In Your Eyes (Remastered) 00:00 Tools
Unglamorous - Radio Edit 00:00 Tools
Sick of That Lie 00:00 Tools
How To Survive (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Cry for You 00:00 Tools
Bonus Track - Not In This Life - Live 00:00 Tools
Ignorance (Kasey Chambers cover) 00:00 Tools
Fireflies (Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Bonus Track - Josephine - Live 00:00 Tools
Now I Know You 00:00 Tools
The Exploding Man 00:00 Tools
Confetti (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Leaving This Life (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Ruby's Shoes (live) 00:00 Tools
Josephine [Live][#][*] 00:00 Tools
Your Next Lover (Unplugged At Studio 330) 00:00 Tools
Written Permission (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Unfinished Song 00:00 Tools
Bonus Track - Paper Wings And Halo - Live 00:00 Tools
Nobody Knows 00:00 Tools
Hurt 00:00 Tools
Stealing Kisses (Unplugged At Studio 330) 00:00 Tools
Witness To Your Life (Unplugged At Studio 330) 00:00 Tools
Leaving This Life (Unplugged At Studio 330) 00:00 Tools
Girl Crush (Piano Version) 00:00 Tools
What Will You Say About Me 00:00 Tools
Happy Drunk 00:00 Tools
My Last Hope 00:00 Tools
Arms of a Lion 00:00 Tools
Girl Crush 00:00 Tools
In Your Eyes (Peter Gabriel) 00:00 Tools
It Hurts For a Reason 00:00 Tools
Needle and the Damage Done 00:00 Tools
Unglamorous (Unplugged At Studio 330) 00:00 Tools
Drinking Problem 00:00 Tools
Not in This Life [Live][#][*] 00:00 Tools
Unglamorous [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
How I Love That Man 00:00 Tools
Mama's Cooking 00:00 Tools
Paper Wings Halo 00:00 Tools
Cowboy Strong 00:00 Tools
DRINKIN' PROBLEM - LORI MCKENNA 00:00 Tools
Witness To Your Life [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go 00:00 Tools
06 Shake 00:00 Tools
No Love, No Tears 00:00 Tools
Hanging By a Thread 00:00 Tools
Josephine (Live and Previously Unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Personal Disaster 00:00 Tools
Damned If I 00:00 Tools
Not In This Life (Live and Previously Unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Halfway Home [Explicit] 00:00 Tools
I Know You [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Your Next Lover [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
Lori Mckenna - Fireflies 00:00 Tools
The Lot Behind St. Mary’s 00:00 Tools
Unsaid 00:00 Tools
Mean Streak 00:00 Tools
Falling From the Sky 00:00 Tools
I Don't Think I Deserve This 00:00 Tools
All Wrong 00:00 Tools
How Far Are You Gonna Go 00:00 Tools
True Believer 00:00 Tools
Unraveling 00:00 Tools
My Used to Be 00:00 Tools
Two Cents 00:00 Tools
UNGLAMOROUS - LORI MCKENNA 00:00 Tools
Your Next Lover - Lori Mckenna 00:00 Tools
You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome 00:00 Tools
I KNOW YOU - LORI MCKENNA 00:00 Tools
Paper Wings and Halo [Live][#][*] 00:00 Tools
In Your Eyes [From Say Anything] 00:00 Tools
You Won’t Even Know I'm Gone 00:00 Tools
You Can’t Break a Woman 00:00 Tools
Paper Wings & Halo (Live and Previously Unreleased) 00:00 Tools
Mr.Sunshine 00:00 Tools
Feel It Everyday 00:00 Tools
Love to Be Cruel For 00:00 Tools
I See Smoke 00:00 Tools
Where the Dandelions Don't Grow 00:00 Tools
God Didn't Build You That Way 00:00 Tools
Special Occasion 00:00 Tools
Devil's Hands 00:00 Tools
Poor Baby 00:00 Tools
I'll Make It Easy 00:00 Tools
Love In Everything 00:00 Tools
Drinkin' Problem [Unglam] 00:00 Tools
WITNESS TO YOUR LIFE - LORI MCKENNA 00:00 Tools
Now I Know You - Lori McKenna 00:00 Tools
Bible Song [Album Version] 00:00 Tools
I`m Not Crazy 00:00 Tools
Ignorance (Lori McKenna) 00:00 Tools
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Lori McKenna (née Lorraine Giroux, born December 22, 1968) is an American folk singer/songwriter. Her album releases to date include Paper Wings and Halo (2000), Pieces of Me (2001), The Kitchen Tapes (2004), Bittertown (2004), Unglamorous (2007), Lorraine (2011), and Massachusetts (2013). Lori McKenna’s first name is actually Lorraine. She is named after the mother she lost when she was only seven, but whose impact on Lori’s life reverberates to this day. In her sixth album, Lorraine, she considers the influence of her mother, who died at roughly the same age Lori is now, as well as her own place in relationship to her husband, family and community. It is her most personal album to date. On the title track, Lori thinks back to scenes she remembers from her childhood (or thinks she does: “Well I don’t know if this part is true/How memories lie the way they do”) and how they reflect on her mother’s character: hard working, uncomplaining, sacrificing and loving, despite the health challenges that would eventually take her from her family. Lori allows the small details to carry the story. She remembers her mother smiling and dancing to a Judy Garland Carnegie Hall concert recording: “She said her cousin had a balcony seat.” If you lean in closely, you see the portrait of Lorraine taking shape. Her mother found joy in the music and joy that someone close to her had been lucky enough to be there, but no hint of feeling deprived for not experiencing it herself. Lorraine’s place was with her family, and she found contentment there. In the last verse, Lori looks at herself with the hope that she’s worthy of the name she was given, and the recognition that she might just be falling short (“I swear I’ve tried to be worthy of/The name they gave me when I was young/But I ain’t that pretty and I ain’t that brave/My kids have seen me cry/They should have given her name to my sister Marie/That don’t mean a thing to you but it does to me”). Lori’s unusual combination of professional and personal life, at least in the context of the modern music industry, is well-documented. She grew up in Massachusetts in a musical household. Her father was an excellent singer, and her mother played the piano. Two of her older brothers were songwriters, one of whom (Richard) she considers largely responsible for her career. He accompanied a reluctant Lori to open mic nights and gave her confidence that she was good enough. She began performing her songs in public at age 27, after she and her husband Gene already had three children. She and Gene continue to maintain a happy home in Stoughton, Massachusetts, adding two more children to their full lives. In addition to family, place has an important role in Lori’s songs. “Buy This Town” almost didn’t make the album. It was written the day after the album was completed, but Lori felt so strongly about the song, she and album producer Barry Dean went back to the studio to record it. It’s a love letter to Stoughton, replete with images of the working class environment and the good, hard-working people that are her neighbors. In the last verse of the song, she writes of a firefighter at the high school football game because his kid is playing. “That’s my neighbor John,” she says, “and his son Lucas is on the football team.” She also speaks about how place plays a role in some of her strongest and most enduring memories. It’s moments like a tearful one at the kitchen sink in the home she shares with Gene that Lori holds most dear (”If I could buy one night, I wouldn’t buy the one you’d think/I’d buy the one when my eyes teared up by the light above the kitchen sink/And you held me tight, and you begged me not to cry/If I could buy the sweetness of one kiss, that’s the one I’d buy/If I could buy one night”). The love of home and community is not some abstraction for Lori. It’s central to who she is. She eventually became a staple of the Boston folk music scene, where she became friendly with Mary Gauthier. “We were the two old ladies in a sea of young faces,” she jokes. When Gauthier picked up and left for Nashville, she brought Lori’s music to the attention of her publisher. They got her music into the hands of Faith Hill, who fell hard for Lori’s songs. Hill recorded three of them for her album Fireflies. Lori’s way of articulating the love, pain and pathos of domestic life had a huge impact on Hill, and Hill’s very public championing of Lori’s music led other artists to Lori’s songs. Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood, Alison Krauss, Keith Urban and LeAnn Rimes are among the many that have recorded her songs in recent years. That Lori is a master at chronicling the small, difficult moments between romantic partners as they navigate their relationships is a big reason her songs have been so popular with other artists. Though she and Gene have a strong and happy marriage, they, like all couples, have their moments when they are not connecting. Lori channels the vulnerability of those moments in songs that give voice to anyone who has felt insecure even in the most committed of relationships. In the lead track of the album, “The Luxury Of Knowing,” the protagonist’s constancy is juxtaposed against her partner’s mercurial nature (“But just when I think you’re a hurricane/You freeze right over and all that rain/Turns to ice and your whole world just starts snowing/And I don’t have the luxury of knowing”), leaving her unable to feel secure in the relationship (“Damn it must be easy/Being in love with someone so blind/Cuz I’ll tell you right now the only thing I really know/Is that you might change your mind”). There are also moments that celebrate the love that accompanies the daily grind. “You Get A Love Song” is a fun romp that reminds us that often there’s no gold star or plaque for just showing up every day for your loved one, but at least for Gene, he gets the starring role in one of his wife’s songs. The increased acclaim for her song craft led to a record deal with Warner Brothers, who released her 2007 album Unglamorous. Working with Tim McGraw (who co-produced the album), an appearance on Oprah and an opening slot on McGraw and Faith Hill’s Soul2Soul tour were heady experiences, and Lori is grateful for them. “The whole experience was wonderful, and there were several at Warner Brothers that worked so hard for my album,” she says, but there was always a sense that her music and their goals were not going to result in a perfect professional marriage. “Recording in Nashville, as good as the experience has been in many ways, is not exactly the safest way to guard your creative instincts.” Sales levels that would seem astronomical by the standards of the folk community that nurtured her were not enough for a subsequent regime at Warner Brothers, and they parted amicably. “One thing that did come out of that experience was a much deeper confidence in myself as an artist,” says Lori, which was one reason she decided to take the reins back in her professional life. By choice, she has no label and no manager for the first time in her career. The album closes with a prayer to Lorraine. Lori used to pray to her mother when she was a child: there was a strong sense that Lorraine was watching over her. “I think I made better choices in my life because I felt she was there,” Lori says. “Still Down Here” is a prayer that Lorraine and all the loved ones who leave their earthly burdens behind remember the ones still here on Earth, still in need of their love and guidance. With a daughter so empathetic to the human condition and so loyal and loving to her family and community, one guesses that Lorraine is looking down, very proud. www.lorimckenna.com Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.