![]() Describe what the punk scene was like then in New York and what the clubs were like. But this was the era - it was the era of punk. You came to New York to go to Parsons School of Design, and you planned on being a visual artist. You came to New York from Pittsburgh, where you grew up. I love that song "Dancing With Joey Ramone." You pay tribute to so many lyrics (laughter) in that song. GROSS: Amy Rigby, welcome back to FRESH AIR, and congratulations on your memoir. They played "The Worst That Could Happen" by the Brooklyn Bridge, "He Hit Me And It Felt Like A Kiss," "Glad All Over," "Needles And Pins," "Be My Baby" again and again, "Gloria" by The Shadows of Knight, "He's So Fine" and "I Feel Alright," "Charlie Brown," "Can't Sit Down." We were dancing around and around. Then they played "Hanging On The Telephone" last night when I was dancing with Joey Ramone. When I reached for his hand, he kind of brushed me off. He was cool in his leather jacket and his little dark shades. ![]() They're playing "Papa Was A Rolling Stone." Last night, I was dancing with Joey Ramone. He came up to me, and he didn't even have to ask. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DANCING WITH JOEY RAMONE")ĪMY RIGBY: (Singing) He walked into the party looking just like he had in the past. Let's start with a song that's a tribute to songs she loves. And as she said, she decided she wasn't going to scrub the bathroom floor unless she could write a song about it. The housewife part of the album title refers to how she was already married and a mother when she made the album. ![]() 8 in the Village Voice's annual music critics' poll. By the time she made her first solo album, "Diary Of A Mod Housewife," she was 37, but it wasn't too late to be noticed. From there, she sang with the all-women trio The Shams. She first performed in a band with her younger brother Michael called Last Roundup, which combined a punk and country sensibility and was described by some critics as cowpunk. It took a while before Rigby had the courage and confidence to stand on stage alone. It explains how a Catholic schoolgirl from Pittsburgh became part of New York's punk scene and invented and reinvented herself as a performer and songwriter. Her memoir "Girl To City" was described by our rock critic Ken Tucker as the best rock memoir he read in all of 2019. After years of being a devoted music fan and a regular at New York punk clubs in the late '70s, my guest Amy Rigby found her calling - writing songs and singing them herself.
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