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Track Listing
1. Time For Me to Come Down
2. Sad Tale
3. Beer & Kisses
4. 20 Questions
5. Down Side of Love
6. Good Girls, The
7. Knapsack
8. Just Someone I Had in Mind
9. Don't Break the Heart
10. That Tone of Voice
11. Didn't I?
12. We're Stronger Than That
Album Notes
Personnel: Amy Rigby (vocals, guitar); John Wesley Harding (vocals); Elliot Easton (guitar, toy piano, organ, bass, background vocals); Jay Sherman-Godfrey (guitar, background vocals); Greg Leisz (Dobro, pedal steel guitar); Steve Gunner (piano, organ, keyboards); Ira Kaplan (organ); Tony Maimone (bass); Don Heffington (drums, tingelschlagen, percussion); Doug Wygal (drums); Will Rigby (cowbell, percussion); Sue Garner, Andy Paley (background vocals).
Recorded at Doug Messenger's, North Hollywood, California; Your Place Or Mine, Glendale, California; Pie Studio, Glen Cove, New York; Water Music, Hoboken, New Jersey. Includes liner notes by Amy Rigby.
After recording with a couple of different bands, Amy Rigby made her solo debut in 1996 with DIARY OF A MOD HOUSEWIFE, in the wake of her divorce from dB's/Steve Earle drummer, Will Rigby. An instant cult classic, it was a musical diary of a rock-&-roller entering middle age. Full of incisive lyrical detail and wisecracking humor in equal measure, the tunes incorporate an approachable mix of rootsy influences, as folk, country, and `60s rock flavors mix into a sound that suggests a quirkier, more urban Lucinda Williams.
Industry Reviews
...Dissatisfied but not bitter, her songs, a witty brew of Nancy Sinatra, Buck Owens, Rosanne Cash, and Paul Revere and the Raiders, occupy a world where relationships, jobs, and urban life are rife with unfulfilled promise. An impressive debut. - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (09/13/1996)
...considers the profound quandary of what to do when romance loses its glow. Walk away? Try Harder? Whatever the solution, she nails the dilemma with scary precision....Her spirited vocals retain a pleasingly optimistic edge, even when dispensing bitter medicine...
Musician (12/01/1996)
7 (out of 10) - ...She gives...characters life within songs that sound like Top 40 tunes, but a little more ragged, saved from blandness by their thrift-store charm...
Spin (10/01/1996)
3.5 Stars (out of 5) - ...a rock & roll album that speaks for those wives and mothers who still hit the club circuit whenever they can scare up a sitter and who would rather fold laundry to PJ Harvey than Mariah Carey...
Rolling Stone (11/14/1996)
Ranked #8 in the Village Voice's 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.
Village Voice (02/25/1997)
...Dissatisfied but not bitter, her songs, a witty brew of Nancy Sinatra, Buck Owens, Rosanne Cash, and Paul Revere and the Raiders, occupy a world where relationships, jobs, and urban life are rife with unfulfilled promise. An impressive debut. - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (09/13/1996)
...considers the profound quandary of what to do when romance loses its glow. Walk away? Try Harder? Whatever the solution, she nails the dilemma with scary precision....Her spirited vocals retain a pleasingly optimistic edge, even when dispensing bitter medicine...
Musician (12/01/1996)
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