Article: McKenna enjoys a career with a 'Halo' over it.(Scene)

Lori McKenna's "Deserving Song" starts off with these self-deprecating words: "I don't deserve anything I get."

That surely can't be true, but the song's next line neatly sums up McKenna's short yet astonishing career: "Things just come easy to me."

McKenna could be called "the people's favorite." The Stoughton songwriter often refers to herself as a beloved youngest sibling, and in recent years, the Boston folk-pop scene has become like her extended adoring family. Or as her lyrics admit: "People just take care of me."

Just consider her career arc. In 1996, McKenna, then a 27-year-old mother of three, publicly presented her songs for the ...

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