How The Hell Did That Happen? with Mary Lou Lord and Maryanne Window

After a long time in the wilds of the world Mary Lou and Maryanne are finally back to shoot the shit.

Mary Lou and Maryanne are back in conversation and check in to discuss what's been happening and music of course!

This episode, Mary Lou shares some more recollections of Kurt Cobain and shares her thoughts and feelings as we approach the 25th anniversary of his tragic death. If any of you our listeners and friends are struggling with depression, there is help available so please know you are not alone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines

This episode we bring you the long awaited part 2 of Mary Lou's story of her relationship with Kurt Cobain and the ensuing crazy dealings she had with Courtney Love. It's really a case of fact being crazier than fiction and it's all true!

This week on February 20, Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain would have turned 52. Episode 8 is the first in a series which sees Mary Lou tell the story of how she met Kurt, how their relationship began, the early '90s and the storm that was about to unleash. A fascinating look into the burgeoning Grunge scene and the beginning of Nirvana's sharp trajectory into the pages of rock history.

This week Mary Lou recounts a cautionary tale about being held at gunpoint by a random stranger.

This week Mary Lou and Maryanne discuss Bird Box, the new music they've been listening to including Better Oblivion Community Centre, Ryan Adams, Jenny Lewis, Tim Bluhm and The Lemonheads. They discuss the Bikini Kill reformation shows that were just announced which leads to the topic of Courtney Love.

This episode Mary Lou tells Maryanne a few of her favourite busking stories as well as talking new music and new books.

This week Mary Lou and Maryanne talk to Michael Adams about meeting the Beatles the first time they played on The Ed Sullivan Show, seeing them at Shea Stadium, being in a high school band with The Stooges' James Williamson, having Susan Day as a lab partner and working on The Exorcist. We find out how the hell all of that happened!

Our first ever guest is the super talented and super sweet singer songwriter Phoebe Bridgers! Mary Lou and Maryanne spoke to Phoebe when she was recently in Boston during the Boy Genius tour, Boy Genius being Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus' new collaborative venture. They talk busking, mumbletwang and Elliott Smith as well as life on the road for touring musicians.

In this episode, Mary Lou tells Maryanne a somewhat rambling story about Russ Kunkel and Jimmy Buffett. The story starts out with Mary Lou having dinner with Irving Azoff at the Ivy in LA, and ends with her naked, in a GLASS elevator in a hotel in West Palm Beach, just after having dinner with Jimmy Buffett and his daughter Savannah. It's like a weird dream. "How the hell did that happen?" indeed! Stay tuned!!

How the hell did that happen? Well that’s a good question! We thought it was a good question anyway and we hope you, our good listeners do too, we being Boston based singer-songwriter Mary Lou Lord and Melbourne based musician and music writer Maryanne Window. Mary Lou and Maryanne have been musical collaborators for the past 6 years. Having connected over their love of good songs and a series of musical parallels, they began writing and recording together and formed a fast friendship. They both found that they had a multitude of funny stories from their involvement in the music industry during its corporate hey day – the 1990s – where money still flowed and artists were wined and dined and indulgence was at a prime. Mary Lou Lord has been known to tell many a cracking yarn via her Facebook page and the question was asked – “When are you going to write a book Mary Lou?” Rather than write a book for now, Mary Lou is going to be telling some of her stories here in this podcast and together with Maryanne, will be asking some of her favourite artists and friends some of their “How the Hell Did That Happen?” moments of life.