Hi everybody! Just a quick word before Thanksgiving. My CD, Blue Lights, is now on sale at CD Baby for the special price of $9.99. To order, just click on the button above. (All the tracks, of course, are still available for downloading in the Snocap store, and will soon be available on iTunes.)
There’s going to be a lot more news in the coming weeks, so please keep checking this page, and my Myspace page, where you can listen to four complete songs and see many more pictures.
I especially want to thank all the people all over the world who’ve already downloaded my songs, and those who've shared with me their thoughts about my music. You are an inspiration!
That’s my guitar above—at least it used to be. It was stolen from the 13th-century house my husband and I rented in a tiny Mallorcan town in the summer of 2002 (for a belated honeymoon). I’d had that guitar for many years, and although it was very inexpensive, I loved it and still miss it. At least I’ve got this picture, taken in our courtyard shortly before the theft. My latest recording, “Midnight in California,” which will be on Blue Lights, my new CD, was inspired by a British expat in Mallorca, a singer who calls herself Penny Lane. She and I were invited by an Australian couple to sing at a rooftop party one evening. Along with a few original songs, I sang the beginning of the Beatles’ “You Never Give Me Your Money,” leading into “You Can’t Do That.” My husband, Bob, who wrote the John Lennon bio Nowhere Man, pointed out that it was Paul McCartney’s birthday.
As you can see in the Snocap “store” above, “Midnight in California” and a few other tracks can be downloaded (click on the titles to listen to samples). For now that’s the only place to buy my songs, but in the near future both the CD and individual tracks will be available on CD Baby and iTunes. Soon you’ll also be able to hear the songs on “The Louie Free Show”; click here to listen live to Louie’s show (Mon.-Fri., 3-7 p.m. ET). You can also hear the songs in their entirety on my MySpace page.
Thanks for listening, and check back often for updates!
Mary Lyn Maiscott, who grew up in West Virginia and Missouri, is a writer, singer, and songwriter based in New York City. She’s written personal essays for The Village Voice and Cosmopolitan, music items for Vanity Fair and starpolish.com, movie reviews for the arts blog The Looseleaf Report, fiction for The Portland Review, and plays that have been staged at various New York theatres. She began writing alt-rock songs in her 20s and has appeared at such clubs as Folk City, the Bitter End, and CBGB’s. Her influences include Stevie Nicks, the Pretenders, Lucinda Williams, and Sheryl Crow. She has also worked as an editor, most notably on the John Lennon bio Nowhere Man, written by Robert Rosen, whom she married in 2001.