"The heart and soul of the Roches"

October 14, 2018 1:28 PM

Suzzy Roche's goal for the posthumous Maggie Roche compilation Where Do I Come From was "for her voice to be heard as much as possible." But the video for the unreleased 1972 demo "Stayin' Home" […] provides a visual souvenir of the late singer-songwriter, too. […] "Right after she died I discovered a video of her dancing," Suzzy tells Billboard. "Maggie was very quiet and shy on stage, but then all of a sudden she would go and do this dance during the middle of one of the songs, which was so great. Dick took this dance and reconfigured it a bit and said, 'Why not let it be raw Maggie?'"
posted by Johnny Wallflower (8 comments total)

Too soon...

Their harmonies make me cry even more than they did before...
posted by Windopaene at 3:59 PM on October 14, 2018 [4 favorites]

Wow, memories That sound arrived like a first Spring day.

Not familiar? Try this one.
posted by Twang at 7:04 PM on October 14, 2018

What a wonderful way to present that dance - we get all the vitality and individuality, unspoiled by the particularity of a certain age or time or place. It is Maggie dancing her way through eternity.
posted by Modest House at 7:26 PM on October 14, 2018 [4 favorites]

I always wished they did more with Fripp. I loved his guitar sound with their voices.
posted by pracowity at 4:44 AM on October 15, 2018 [1 favorite]

I miss the Roches...
posted by Oh_Bobloblaw at 8:24 AM on October 15, 2018 [2 favorites]

I sang Happy Birthday to Suzzy with a couple thousand of my closest friends at the Orpheum in Madison a couple weeks ago, when Lucy Wainwright Roche opened for the Indigo Girls. Didn't know much about the Roches before then, but I am happy to say I've been listening since then.
posted by BrashTech at 10:25 AM on October 15, 2018

The album dropped today.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 6:10 PM on October 26, 2018 [1 favorite]

Tickets are gone but they're selling a livestream for ten bucks.

Tuesday, December 4, 2018 @ 8PM: A Celebration Of The Songs Of Maggie Roche with A Holiday Twist – Suzzy Roche And Lucy Wainwright Roche with Special Guests including The Indigo Girls

Mother/daughter singer-songwriters Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche celebrate the music of their sister/aunt Maggie Roche and the brand new Storysound Records release of Where Do I Come From, a 2 CD set of selected songs by Maggie Roche. Special guests for this show are Grammy Award–winners The Indigo Girls; singer-songwriter Dave Roche and his daughter actress-singer Oona Roche (brother and niece of Maggie and Suzzy); singer-songwriter-performance artist Rachelle Garniez; principal singer of Brooklyn’s House of Yes Daisy Press; producer-songwriter-musician Felix McTeigue; and songwriter-arranger-producer Dick Connette. In the tradition of The Roches, there will be holiday songs to welcome in the season.

posted by Johnny Wallflower at 7:57 PM on November 12, 2018 [1 favorite]