![]() “I was like, oh, now I have to learn ‘Cliffs of Dover,’” she said, referring to the Eric Johnson noodle-a-thon often heard in the aisles of Guitar Center. Jordan started attending a rock ’n’ roll camp, her passion became a competition, dulling her interest. “My parents were never like, ‘Go practice.’ I was just like, ‘I have to practice.’” She brought a similarly fervent work ethic to ice hockey, which she played through high school. “It’s an obsessive personality trait,” she said. She asked for a guitar when she was 5 and started classical training, forcing herself to practice two hours a day. Until she heard Paramore, she said, “I actually didn’t know women were allowed in bands.” But the artists her mother listened to (Coldplay, the Fray, Lifehouse) and her sister favored (angsty, harder-edged Warped Tour bands) shaped Ms. Jordan’s fascination with fashion, owns a lingerie store called Bra-la-la her father works for a company that provides textbooks and curriculum for home-school programs and her older sister is an outdoorswoman. Jordan has been playing guitar for 13 years, making her the odd woman out in her nonmusical, but very supportive, family. We discover when Snail Mail (I shall refer to her as such now, rather than Lindsey Jordan) was struck and compelled by music: The first interview is from The New York Times. Prior to that, there are some interviews I want to bring in, as Snail Mail’s Jordan is a compelling artist who warrants closer inspection. I am going to come to a review of a song from that album very soon. Snail Mail’s Valentine is s superb album from Lindsey Jordan.
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