Mary Lee's Corvette
Mary Lee's Corvette | |
|---|---|
| Genres | Alternative folk |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Associated acts | Eric Ambel |
| Members | Mary Lee Kortes Andy York Joe Chianfolo |
Mary Lee's Corvette is an American band led by Michigan-born singer-songwriter Mary Lee Kortes. The group has recorded five albums, notably a 2002 cover album of Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks, recorded live in at Arlene's Grocery.[1]
Career[edit]
Although Kortes was already writing songs and poetry when she moved to New York, she says she didn't expect a musical career to follow. However, she soon found work as a session singer, and her fourth completed song "Everywhere I Go" was recorded by Christian artist Amy Grant for her 1985 album Unguarded. Kortes later began recording her own songs and released her first EP, Mary Lee's Corvette, in 1997, produced by her husband Eric Ambel.[2][3]
Rolling Stone critic David Fricke wrote that "the bright bite in Mary Lee Kortes' voice [has] the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton, with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde." MLC's work has also been championed by British radio presenter Bob Harris and Jim Bessman of Billboard, among others.
MLC's breakthrough recording was of a live performance of the Bob Dylan album, Blood on the Tracks. The album attracted attention from many quarters, not least Dylan himself, for whom MLC later opened in New York.[4][not in citation given]
Kortes says of the title of the latest MLC album, Love, Loss & Lunacy: "If you don't love something, you can't lose it. When you lose something you love, it makes you crazy. And if you're crazy enough, you can fall back in love."
The band has been greatly involved with "Feel the Music", a non-profit music and healing organization. She runs songwriting workshops and leads seminars for this organization.
Discography[edit]
- Mary Lee's Corvette (1997)
- True Lovers of Adventure (1999)
- Blood on the Tracks (2002)
- 700 Miles (2003)
- Love, Loss & Lunacy (2006)
References[edit]
- ↑ Goldberg, Michael (2014-12-17). "Video: Mary Lee Kortes Performs Entire 'Blood On The Tracks' Album Live (Dylan Digs Her)". DAYS OF THE CRAZY-WILD. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
- ↑ "Mary Lees Corvette". Bar/None Records. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
- ↑ "Mary Lees Corvette". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
- ↑ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. 1997-10-25. Search this book on
External links[edit]
 | This article on a United States-based pop music group is a stub. You can help EverybodyWiki by expanding it. |
This article "Mary Lee's Corvette" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Mary Lee's Corvette. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.
|
This page exists already on Wikipedia. |
