You're listening to Nakedly Examined Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters.

My name is Mark Lintonmeyer.

My guest for episode 22 is Amy Rigby, and you can hear all about her early life in her memoir podcast, Girl to City.

Her musical life's really started when she moved to New York City,

fell in love with the punk scene in the late 70s, and early 80s, played briefly with a punk band,

but then with her brother Michael was in a band called Last Roundup that released an album in 87.

The genre is generally called a cow punk and recorded a whole other album that didn't get

released. She was not the singer in that band,

was not confident enough about her voice, and she and her fellow backing vocalists in last roundup

started a band called The Shams, a sort of Andrew's sisters thing. They released an album in an

EP around 93, 94. You're right now hearing Dark Angel by the Shams from that album Quilt.

She finally became the full lead singer, only as a solo artist, starting in 1997 with Diary of Amad

Housewife.

She since released nine solo albums, the first couple with Elliot Easton, guitarist for

the cars producing.

She had been married to Will Rigby from the D.Bs that broke up around when she started her solo career.

With the new millennium, she paired up with Reckless Eric, whom I've had on the show, who has been the engineer for her recent solo work, and they also recorded three albums as a duo.

We're going to discuss Bricks from her brand new album, Hang in There With Me, then

Genevies Bag from the last Amy Rigby, Reckless Eric album, a working museum from 2012,

and then go back to beer and kisses from her debut album Diary of a Mott housewife,

1997, which also features another person I've had on the show, John Wesley Harding,

aka Wesley Stace.

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