Amy Rigby - 18 Again Anthology

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Like King, Rigby has mastered the paradox of rendering a generation through songs that are utterly personal; with their vivid detail and knowing observations, her lyrics cut deeper than a weekend's worth of Lilith Fair anthems. This May her three albums on Koch Records - Diary Of A Mod Housewife (1996), Middlescence (1998), and The Sugar Tree (2000) - will be condensed into a single-disc anthology as she closes out her deal with the label, and if you're unfamiliar with her music, you couldn't do better than the 17 tracks earmarked for the still-untitled release.

The frustrating working woman on the cowbell-pounding rocker "The Good Girls" declares, "My mother didn't go to work / She stayed at home and she never got paid / Now I do double time, I'm slaving six to nine/I'm so tired at night I think I've got it made." In the slinky, bongo-propelled blues "Invisible" the singer laments, "I walked into a bar, now what was I thinking / Nobody asked me, `Honey what are you drinking?'/ I'm invisible / Since I hit 35 what I want I gotta buy/I'm invisible."

For all her vulnerability, Rigby can strip the paint off a lover better than Richard Thompson: on the hammering "Balls," she snaps, "I've been seeing a pattern here, how you get lost when I get too near / Then you come `round maybe once a week, like some guys go out to bowl." Yet for all her disappointment she still savors romance like wine: on "Magicians," when a sometime boyfriend tells her he won't be around forever, she replies, "Let's leave reality out of this, shall we? / No need to mention it, it's always here / Leave the cold hard facts to the mathematicians / We're magicians / We make reality disappear."

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