![]() THIS is the show I will miss most this year. “Pregnancies, blizzards, flat tires, hangovers, broken guitars…The audience. “Every year since my kids were babies we’ve been playing a series of holiday shows at Club Passim,” she posted on Facebook. 18, she performed a livestream to benefit Cambridge’s Club Passim, a venue she considers home. Now a two-time Grammy winner and 10-time nominee - she’s up for a 2021 Best Country Song Grammy for “Crowded Table” - she often writes hits from her Stoughton basement. (Courtesy Becky Fluke)Īt this point, McKenna’s songwriting resume reads like a Who’s Who in Nashville: George Strait, Miranda Lambert, Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood, Holly Williams, Reba McEntire among them. Heck, she worked with Lady Gaga on the soundtrack of Oscar-winner “A Star is Born.” Singer-songwriter Lori McKenna. " Girl Crush" - which she wrote with writing partners Hillary Lindsey and Liz Rose - went quintuple platinum for Little Big Town. A talented singer in her own right, McKenna found her niche writing hits for the stars: Tim McGraw took " Humble and Kind" to the top of the country charts. Today, millions have heard (and cried) to her words. Once I stepped into it, I just got the bug.” But we have such a nurturing live music scene in Boston. “I thought, if music isn’t my thing, I’m happy just continuing on the way I was, raising kids. “That was my goal: If I had the guts to get up at the Old Vienna Kaffeehaus,” says Lori McKenna, now 52 and a mother of five, from her Stoughton home. ![]() ![]() Then one night around 1996, the then-28-year-old mother of three mustered up the courage to sing at Old Vienna Kaffeehaus in Westborough. Facebook Email Singer-songwriter Lori McKenna performing at Club Passim in July during the premiere of her album "The Balladeer." (Courtesy)įor years, no one heard a word Lori McKenna wrote.
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