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Amy Rigby launched her solo career with
Diary Of A Mod Housewife (Koch, 1996).
The tragic confessional Time For Me To Come Down sets the tone for
the rest of the album all the way to the melancholy closer
We're Stronger Than That
Musically, the country anthem Beer & Kisses and the rowdy boogie 20 Questions stand out.
Rigby continued her solo career with
Middlescence (Koch, 1998), containing
the country-pop lullaby All I Want, the solemn ode What I Need and the funk-soul shuffle Invisible,
and, after relocating to Nashville, with
the inferior The Sugar Tree (Koch, 2000), with the Rolling Stones-esque Balls and the delicate elegy
Sleeping With The Moon.
18 Again (2002) is a compilation of singles and album songs.
Til the Wheels Fall Off (Signature Sounds, 2003) contains the jangly folk-rock singalong Why Do I
but is mostly devoted to stories (like the cute and catchy Are We Ever Gonna Have Sex Again? on the former) rather than to music.
Little Fugitive (Signature Sounds, 2005) marked a major leap forward
in terms of composition, production and especially variety. It contains
her catchiest power-pop ditty, Dancing With Joey Ramone,
another cute and bouncy story, Like Rasputin,
a pop-soul ditty It's not Safe that evokes the J. Geils Band of the 1970s,
the distorted psychedelic ballad So You Know Now, in the "Madchester" vein,
the jazzy and cabaret-tish Needy Men that could be a lost 1950s gem,
and simple singalongs like Girls Got It Bad
The Old Guys (Southern Domestic, 2018), the first in more than a decade,
produced by former punk-rocker Wreckless Eric,
is derivative in every possible way.
We heard a zillion times
the anthemic folk-rock of
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the graceful country-rock of Back From Amarillo,
the Tom Petty-esque The Old Guys,
etc.
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