Artist: Amy Rigby
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #59 Sept-Oct 2005
Amy Rigby – Little Fugitive
Beginning with her 1996 solo debut Diary Of A Mod Housewife, Amy Rigby has released five solo albums that examine the balance between romance and domesticity with sparkling wit and a kind of goofy charm. In the hands of a lesser artist, this methodology might have become a shtick by now, but Rigby’s talents are [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Amy Rigby – Til The Wheels Fall Off
Philip Larkin wrote that in all people there sleeps a sense of how their lives might have been different, had they been loved. “Nothing changes that,” he concluded. Amy Rigby’s fourth album alternates between awakening that sense and trying to bury it. Like her previous work, Til The Wheels Fall Off frames Rigby’s scuffles with [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #44 March-April 2003
Amy Rigby – I’ve Got The World On A Broken String
Having parted ways with Koch Records after three studio albums and an anthology, Amy Rigby returns with a live solo CD available through her website. Recorded between 1999 and 2002, I’ve Got The World On A Broken String contains sixteen Rigby originals plus covers of Mo Tucker’s “Spam Again” and Nick Lowe’s “(What’s So Funny [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #40 July-Aug 2002
Amy Rigby – 18 Again: An Anthology
Whatever the medium — literature, film, music — it’s rare enough for an artist to forge a truly distinct, expansive voice, a personal style at once immediately recognizable and endlessly flexible. Rarer still, to discover this gift in one’s late 30s, a period viewed all too typically by our youth-obsessed culture as creatively stagnant and [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #29 Sept-Oct 2000
Amy Rigby – Just like a woman
There have been approximately 111,000 rock ‘n’ roll songs written about 17-year-old girls. Their names are “Michelle”, “Maybellene”, “Sheena”, “Sherry”, “Wendy”, “Amie”, “Carrie-Ann”, “Bernadette”, “Georgy Girl”, “Gloria”, “Little Sister”, and “Ruby Tuesday”. These girls are always pretty and eager for fun. They are unencumbered by jobs, children, or any challenge more severe than algebra. They [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #18 Nov-Dec 1998
Amy Rigby – Middlescence
Amy Rigby gets you on her side right from the start on Middlescence, the follow-up to her acclaimed 1996 solo debut Diary Of A Mod Housewife. The irresistible twangy pop of “All I Want”, a plea to an insensitive male oblivious to his woman’s needs, is a singalong that will leave you wanting the head [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #7 Jan-Feb 1997
Amy Rigby / Jim Lauderdale – Southgate House (Newport, KY)
Alternative-country artists visit the Cincinnati area all too rarely, so it was a real treat to catch a double bill featuring these two talented songwriters, who have turned out heartfelt and original country gems that shine without the need of Nashville’s glare. Amy Rigby opened the show with her folksy brand of familiar and comfortable [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #5 Sept-Oct 1996
Amy Rigby – Mod, but not Squad
Judging from the acts she has shared a stage with, you’d think Amy Rigby might have come straight out of the Nashville songwriter scene. She has opened for Bill Monroe, Dwight Yoakam and James McMurtry, and has been a guest on Ernest Tubb’s Midnight Jamboree. She loves Merle Haggard and named her seven-year-old daughter after [...]
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