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Mary Lyn Maiscott

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Read her short story “Pueblo Piedra” in The Portland Review . Read her blog postings on Vanityfair.com and The Looseleaf Report .

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“‘Blue Lights’ is an instant Christmas classic.” —Louie Free, WGFT AM, Ohio

“Mary Lyn Maiscott has the voice of the very angels.” —Guillermo Henry, Radio Etiopía, Mexico City

“Her music reminds me of a wide beach, of America.” —George Shtefan, a musician in Yugoslavia



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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 CD, Blue Lights, includes original songs about a war-time romance at Christmas (“Blue Lights”), an expat in Mallorca longing for her California love (“Midnight in California”), and a woman fed up with her painter boyfriend (“Paint It Over”), as well as covers of "Be-Bop-A-Lula" and the Beatles’ “You Can’t Do That.” 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.


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Member Since: 19/10/2007
Band Website: http://marylynmaiscott.blogspot.com/
Influences: Stevie Nicks, the Pretenders, Lucinda Williams, Sheryl Crow
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Vanity Fair blog: Nellie McKay

............ Last night I met singer Nellie McKay at a listening party at Jazz at Lincoln Center for her new CD, a Doris Day tribute called Normal as Blueberry Pie. Besides being talented, Ne...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:52:00 GMT

Findlay Brown

Have you heard the Brit singer Findlay Brown? He recently toured in the UK with Duffy. Read about my conversation with him--about guitars, among other things--after his recent show at the Mercury Loun...
Posted by on Tue, 19 May 2009 14:05:00 GMT

Holiday Radio Interview

On December 23 I was interviewed on "The Louis Free Show," a radio show out of Ohio, about my new song, "Things I Lost," as well as my CD, Blue Lights, especially the two Christmas-related songs. If y...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:02:00 GMT

New song!

Please check out my new song, "Things I Lost," currently on my player. It was produced by my talented nephew Sean. I'll soon be singing it on the cable-TV show "The Looseleaf Report," which will event...
Posted by on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:55:00 GMT

Aretha Franklin concert

Saw the amazing Aretha Franklin in concert over the weekend in East Hampton. To read about it--including my encounter with Christie Brinkley and a great photo of her taken by Robert Rosen--go to Areth...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:07:00 GMT

Vanity Fair blog: David Letterman

Just posted a thought piece on David Letterman, inspired by his interview with Julia Roberts last night:"A Kinder, Gentler Letterman?"Hope you get a chance to check it out!Thanks,Mary Lyn
Posted by on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:48:00 GMT

Vanity Fair blog: Donna Summer Returns!

Hi! I have a new post on Vanity Fair's blog; it's about an incredible concert Donna Summer did the other night in New York. Hope you get a chance to read it:Hot Stuff! Donna Summer ReturnsThanks a lot...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:24:00 GMT

Vanity Fair Blogs/Radio Show

I've been blogging for Vanity Fair the last few weeks. The first posts were about musicians at the Tribeca Film Festival Music Lounge (you can find them by searching my name or the names of the singer...
Posted by on Tue, 27 May 2008 11:41:00 GMT

My Muse, Mallorca

If you've listened to my song "Midnight in California" (currently the first song on the player), you may have gotten a sense of the beautiful Spanish island of Mallorca (where, in the song, an expat l...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:45:00 GMT

Mexican Radio

As my husband, Robert Rosen, just pointed out to me, John Lennon opened the door for us in Mexico, and we walked through it. The people of Mexico, Chile, and other parts of Latin America have been ext...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:51:00 GMT