Working: When Music Is the Family Business: Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche

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🗓️ 13 December 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This week, host June Thomas talks to Suzzy Roche, the youngest member of the harmonious folk group The Roches, and Suzzy’s daughter, Lucy Wainwright Roche. The duo recently released an album called I Can Still Hear You that was inspired by the pandemic, the Trump presidency, and the #metoo movement. In the interview, Suzzy and Lucy discuss their songwriting process and explain what it’s like to collaborate with a family member. Suzzy also reflects on her time writing songs with her sisters in The Roches. After the interview June and co-host Isaac Butler discuss their mutual love of The Roches. In the exclusive Slate Plus section, Suzzy and Lucy talk about how the pandemic has affected the music industry. Then June asks Suzzy about The Roches’ Christmas album, We Three Kings. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-WORK. That’s (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. It’s only $35 for the first year, and you can get a free two-week trial. Sign up now to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody it's Tim Heidecker you know me Tim and Eric Bridesmaids and
0:03.4	Fantastic Four. I'd like to personally invite you to listen to office hours live
0:07.8	with me and my co-host DJ Doug Pound and Vic Berger.
0:12.3	Howdy.
0:13.0	Every week we bring you laughs, fun, games and lots of other surprises.
0:16.4	It's live, we take your Zoom calls.
0:18.0	We love having fun.
0:19.0	Excuse me?
0:20.0	Vicks said something.
0:21.0	Music, music.
0:22.0	Music. I like having fun. like to laugh I like to meet people who can make me laugh
0:29.0	Please subscribe
0:31.0	No Subscribe now. I was thinking about
0:37.0	I was thinking about writing a swan song for myself because I'm old and that song just kind of plopped out like you know when it a cat throws up have you ever seen the cat throwing up.
0:53.0	You know, it looks at it, like, whoa, what's that as if you didn't even do it?
0:59.0	Welcome back to Working. I'm your host Isaac Butler and I'm your other host June Thomas.
1:08.0	June we just heard the great folk singerwriter, Susie Roach.
1:14.0	I can't wait to talk about your conversation with her and her daughter Lucy Wainwright Roach,
1:19.0	but first, the days are getting shorter,
1:22.0	the air a bit colder, while we're recording this there's a surprise snow flurry going on outside.
1:28.0	We're stumbling towards a very peculiar version of the holidays, how's it going for you?
1:34.0	Well, 2020 has been the year when I finally learned how Prospect Park, which I live very close to, changes the seasons because instead of getting my exercise if you can call it that on my commute to work
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