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Art, aging, identity and overalls. What happens when you realize this thing you started doing for fun in your twenties is your life's work? Amy Rigby has been writing, performing and recording her transcendent songs about the everyday for years, first with bands Last Roundup and the Shams in NYC’s East Village, then as a solo artist beginning with Diary Of A Mod Housewife up through The Old Guys and 2020 single “Vote That Fucker Out” with sometime duo partner Wreckless Eric. Her first book, Girl To City: A Memoir was published in 2019. Her new album Hang In There With Me comes out August 2024.
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Send us a text A US tour recap... Mass Pike rest area memories, my daughter's wedding, gigs and old familiar places (I can't remember where this photo is from!)
Send us a text Trying it on... A trip to Liberty, preparing for the role of Mother of the Bride. This was a nice chance to use a Shams track, called Dressed To Kill.
Send us a text Sense memory past and present... Played a festival, went boating, finished a book, had a barbq—my first English summer.
Send us a text Good things about growing old(er) Summer in England: gardens, peaches and pulling the plug on Too Much early (too early?) and a poem about being here: A Yank In North Walsham
Send us a text All the English summer stuff (bits n bobs?) and advice for my new memoir I didn't know I needed from Keith McNally. Plus a bit of a Pulp cover.
Send us a text I was going to talk about summer in England, but Brian Wilson is gone, every fan has their own Beach Boys
Send us a text On the rails...with my first episode in almost a year! Out playing gigs in Sweden and Germany; thinking about Jill Sobule (recorded a bit of one of my favorite songs of hers, felt like I could've written it myself), toughing it out and working on things. Hope you're hanging in there - thanks for finding me here again.
Send us a text Unexpected endings Goodbyes of all kinds as Eric and I pack up to move. I've included a bit of an old live track from a legendary show at the Mercury Lounge in NYC circa...1994 (?) put together by dear recently departed Jeremy Tepper and his band the World Famous Blue Jays - giving it my best blues rock shouting to keep up with what must've been about ten musicians onstage. Everyone chose or wrote a song in keeping with the theme Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, glad I have this...
Send us a text A visit to the county of Shropshire and a 70th birthday makes me think about the past, long ago and more recent. Eric's pal Dave loves Neil; a cool record store encounter...includes an old favorite.
Send us a text Putting a house up for sale to move across the ocean, trying the change on for size...Soon to be an All American Alien Girl - nothing a little Roger Miller won't fix.
Send us a text A momentous occasion for me, a brand new single and video ON A LABEL (Tapete). Nerd alert! The nuts and bolts of Dylan In Dubuque- song, recording and video. What inspired it, how it got made and out into the world. Hear the demo turn into the record before your eyes or ears! Thanks for listening, you can find the full Dylan In Dubuque single here: https://orcd.co/amyrigby and video here: https://youtu.be/D9iTxYcrB5A?si=if7xdlXuBfSxxAl3
Send us a text A drive back home from an NYC gig...feeling that nostalgia you get when you know you're leaving. O'Jays, Nazareth, and a little Wreckless Eric in the background. Thanks for listening!
Send us a text Getting photos taken to publicize a new album, it's almost like being in showbiz. Looking forward to my release date in August 2024, and looking back at an album photo shoot for The Sugar Tree (a fan on Bandcamp calls the cover "one of the worst I've ever seen"! I agree that's one awful font but Jim Herrington's photo is quite striking) Nashville in the year 2000, with an excerpt from Girl To Country work in progress and a snippet of music from that album. https://theamy...
Send us a text A catalogue of everyday moments as Eric and I prepare to sell this house and move on. Suggested tag for this piece on WordPress was...Jesus? Does kinda feel like our fate is in the hands of the gods. Affection for this place we've called home for almost thirteen years. Stuck a rough demo of a song -in-progress on the end: Too Damn Late To Call It A Day
Send us a text Letting go...it's a process. Cleaning up to try and sell this house there's a lot to sift through Saw Lenny Kaye play his great song The Things You Leave Behind last week but I cover a different song here, one I heard for the first time in a long time as I sorted through my old CDs. Thanks for listening!
Send us a text It's Never Too Late To Do A Little Planet Fitness, 30-Day Sketch Challenge, guitar dreams all attempts at self-improvement Sunny Side of Heaven from Bare Trees fumbling attempt Thanks for listening!
Send us a text January, radio and IG posts from the 30A Songwriter Fest get me thinking about David Olney . Includes a song Life Is Change that's on a demo/rough collection Cut Two
Send us a text The taste of travel...and Babs riding shotgun. Songwriting camp on the shores of Lake Michigan and heading west to Chicago listening to My Name Is Barbra all the while. Bit of a rough demo from a song camp prompt: Build A Better Girl, notes from a reluctant stage mother
Send us a text Border crossings, house concerts, Michigan and good ole Tom Petty. Wonder which snippet of a cover I recorded for this one?
Send us a text What makes an article of clothing special? And does it work to try and duplicate the magic? Hope the power pop community will allow me the cover song at the end of this, it couldn't be helped.
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