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Mod about you
You too may fall in love with "mod housewife" Amy Rigby when she straps on her guitar and sings her King-, Kinks- and Cline-style songs.
By DAWN EDEN
Offoffoff.com
Although I'm a card-carrying heterosexual and proud of it, there are
times when I look at another woman and think, "Damn!" That's how I feel
when I see Amy Rigby
perform.
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It's not that I want to make love to her. If you put a naked me on a
desert island with only a naked Miss Universe for company, I'd run and hide behind the nearest palm tree. A gurl! Yuck! But that doesn't mean I
wouldn't sneak a glance at the curve of her . . . cheekbones. It's not a
question of wanting another woman, but of wanting to be one. And if
I ever wanted to be another woman, I couldn't choose anyone cooler —
visually or vocally — than Amy Rigby when she's onstage.
OK, maybe she evokes just a tiny stirring. But you really can't
blame me. She is, after all, a special case. On the one hand, Rigby the
performer is a petite powerhouse, a pillar of femininity (her 1996 debut behind the nearest palm tree. A gurl! Yuck! But that doesn't mean I
wouldn't sneak a glance at the curve of her . . . cheekbones. It's not a
question of wanting another woman, but of wanting to be one. And if
I ever wanted to be another woman, I couldn't choose anyone cooler —
visually or vocally — than Amy Rigby when she's onstage.
OK, maybe she evokes just a tiny stirring. But you really can't
blame me. She is, after all, a special case. On the one hand, Rigby the
performer is a petite powerhouse, a pillar of femininity (her 1996 debut
necessary air of universality. The melodies of "Middlescence" (Koch)
aren't quite as memorable, but Rigby's songs always sound better live.
That, and the fact that she's playing on a bill with Nashville roots-rocker
Jim Lauderdale and the one and only Marshall Crenshaw are reason enough to
see her this Thursday at the Bowery Ballroom. And how can you not love a
woman who writes on her Web site that she is currently listening to Mott
The Hoople and P.F. Sloan?
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DECEMBER 6, 1999
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