PEL Presents NEM#222: Amy Rigby's Nostalgic Simplicity

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

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🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Amy started out as an NYC punk fan, was in the "cow punk" band Last Roundup with her brother, and then in a vocal trio called The Shams that released an album and an EP around 1993. She finally emerged as a full front-person as a solo artist in 1997; she's since released nine solo albums plus three more with her husband Wreckless Eric, who now serves as her producer.

We discuss "Bricks" from Hang In There With Me (2024), "Genovese Bag" by Amy Rigby and Wreckless Eric from A Working Museum (2012), and "Beer and Kisses" from Diary of a Mod Housewife (1997). End song: "Dancing with Joey Ramone" from Little Fugitive (2005). Intro: "Dark Angel" by The Shams from Quilt (1993). More at amyrigby.com.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Naked Lee Examined Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters.
0:09.0	My name is Mark Lintenmeyer.
0:10.6	My guest for episode 222 is Amy Rigby and you can hear all about her early life in her memoir
0:16.6	podcast Girl to City. Her musical life's really started when she moved to New York City,
0:21.5	fell in love with the punk scene in the late 70s or
0:23.8	in early 80s, played briefly with a punk band, but then with her brother Michael was in a
0:27.5	band called Last Roundup that released an album in 87. The genre is generally called cowpunk and recorded a whole other album that didn't get released
0:36.3	She was not the singer in that band was not confident enough about her voice and she and her fellow backing vocalists in last round up started a band
0:44.6	called The Shams, a sort of Andrew's sister's thing.
0:47.6	They released an album in an EP around 93, 94.
0:51.2	You are right now hearing Dark Angel by The Shams from that album, Quilt.
0:55.6	She finally became the full lead singer only as a solo artist.
0:59.3	Starting in 1997 with Diary of a Mad Housewife.
1:03.0	She's since released nine solo albums,
1:05.0	the first couple with Elliot Easton,
1:07.3	guitarist for the Cars producing.
1:09.2	She had been married to Will Rigby from the DBs that broke up around when she started her solo career.
1:15.0	With the new millennium, she paired up with Reckless Eric, whom I've had on the show,
1:20.0	who has been the engineer for her recent solo work, and they also recorded three albums as a duo.
1:25.0	We're going to discuss bricks from her brand new album Hang In There With Me,
1:29.0	then Genovese Bag from the last Amy Rigby Reckless Eric Album, A Working Museum from 2012, and then go back to
1:37.2	Beer and Kisses from her debut album, Diary of a Housewife 1997, which also features another person I've had on the show
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