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One thing I’ve always appreciated — and been inspired by — regarding songwriter Amy Rigby is that she writes about exactly where she is, right at the exact moment she is in her life. Her 1996 debut ...

I caught singer Amy Rigby’s June 2018 appearance at Dee’s Country Cocktail Lounge in Madison, and it was one of the finest performances I’ve ever seen by a singer-songwriter. That term doesn’t fully ...

Pop and R&B artist Okay Kaya has lined up a short North American tour for September that kicks off at new Brooklyn club/roller rink Xanadu on 9/5, and from there heads to Montreal, Toronto, Austin, ...

“I’ve been a mod housewife since 1993 when I decided I was not going to get down on my hands and knees and scrub the bathroom floor unless I could get up on stage and sing about it,” says the ...

Amy Rigby’s latest solo album, Hang In There With Me, was co-produced by Wreckless Eric (AKA Eric Goulden), Amy’s husband and sometime duo partner at their home studio in upstate New York. Here is a ...

Amy Rigby is the best songwriter you’ve never heard. Post-punk grad, former temp worker, single mom, touring musician: Rigby made her bid to be American music’s chief chronicler of underemployment and ...

Here’s a bill featuring one of America’s finest songwriters, Amy Rigby, who opens her new full-length The Old Guys with a song about another excellent songwriter, Bob Dylan. Well, it’s sort of about ...

Musical appreciation is passed down from generation to generation in many households. Just ask acclaimed songwriter Amy Rigby, who currently is bonding with her teenage daughter through the likes of ...

It might be tempting to think that after just one collaborative album, the unlikely couple of Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby have run dry creatively. I mean, why else would they record an entire album ...

In the early 1990s, I saw the New York City folk-pop trio The Shams play a show at Albany’s QE2. The Central Avenue club, a staple of the Capital Region music scene in the 1980s and ‘90s, was known ...