Mary Lee's Corvette

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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 at Arlene's Grocery.^[1]

Career[]

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.^{[citation needed]} 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][failed verification]}

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."^{[citation needed]} MLC's work has also been championed by British radio presenter Bob Harris and Jim Bessman of Billboard, among others.^{[citation needed]}

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][failed verification]}

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."^{[citation needed]}

The band has been greatly involved with "Feel the Music", a non-profit music and healing organization.^{[citation needed]} She runs songwriting workshops and leads seminars for this organization.^{[citation needed]}

Discography[]

• Mary Lee's Corvette (1997)
• True Lovers of Adventure (1999)
• Blood on the Tracks (2002)
• 700 Miles (2003)
• Love, Loss & Lunacy (2006)

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• Mary Lee's Corvette at AllMusic

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