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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 F****r 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.

Diary Of Amy Rigby Amy Rigby

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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 F****r 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.

    Blowing Up

    Blowing Up

    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

    • 13 min
    Last Exit In New York

    Last Exit In New York

    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! 

    • 10 min
    Factory Of Dreams

    Factory Of Dreams

    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://theamyrigby.bandcamp.com/album/the-sugar-tree

    • 12 min
    I Got You

    I Got You

    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

    • 9 min
    The Keeper Of Time

    The Keeper Of Time

    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!

    • 11 min
    I Can't Quit You

    I Can't Quit You

    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!

    • 9 min

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