Lori McKenna is tagged as: folk, female vocalists, singer-songwriter, americana, country Lori McKenna is a mother of five from Stoughton, Mass. (pop. 27,000), about 20 miles outside Boston. There, she lives quietly—well, as quietly as a house with five children can get—with her husband of 18 years, Gene, a plumber for the local gas company. For years she drove her kids to school in a 1999 Ford Windstar minivan with 150,000 miles on it. It is fitting Lori entitled her Warner Bros. debut album Unglamorous. Lori McKenna is also an acclaimed singer-songwriter who was thrust into the limelight last year when superstar Faith Hill included three of McKenna’s songs on her Number One album Fireflies, including Hill’s poignant single “Stealing Kisses.” Hill (herself a wife and mother of three) heard in McKenna’s work what a steadily growing audience has been hearing since her 1998 debut, Paper Wings & Halo: an intimate understanding and honest expression of the realities of domestic life. Now many more will have the opportunity to discover what Hill did early on as McKenna prepares to release her new album summer 2007. The album’s 11 songs— produced by Tim McGraw and award winning producer Byron Gallimore — prove once again that this singer-songwriter stay-at-home mom is the real deal; an authentic artist whose “fearless musical snapshots lay ba... Read More About Lori McKenna Biography...  Send Lori McKenna ringtones to your cell
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