Word: albums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some effect on your life. And I think that when it seems that everyone's runnin' your life, you have to scream. You know? Scream to hear you're there," she said in a high, quiet, somewhat squeamish voice. She was talking mostly about punk, about her first album, "Horses," and the musical movement with which her music has evolved...
...shine like sunlight on a spring lake, but the songs are often dark. "There's a bitterness there that won't go away," Maggie acknowledges, a feeling that may have come in part from some bruising years on the folkie circuit and a wrangle over a first album (released by Columbia in 1975). When the record came out, and bombed, Maggie and Terre were hiding out in Hammond, La., waitressing in the Magnolia Restaurant and living at a friend's Kung Fu temple, where they picked up a few rudiments of self-defense...
...album has already brought a first rush of attention that both soothes and spooks the Roches. "The more things people say about us the better," says Terre, trying to look on the bright side. "I guess it gives us room to move...
Maggie and Suzzy share an apartment in Greenwich Village, and Terre lives a few blocks away with her boyfriend. Just now, the sisters are starting on a concert tour to promote the new album and are packing their own winning skepticism along with their guitars. "There's no sense of permanence to any of this," says Suzzy, and if the Roches were to be judged by the impact of their celebrity, rather than the staying power of their work, she might be right. But Maggie, characteristically, goes a little deeper. "There's a fear," she says, "that...
...Stadium on Old Timers' Day after a decade of bitterness, still wearing the aircraft-carrier haircut, arms spread wide to the applause. It stands out among the over 100 pictures, including some fine old shots of Ruth and Gehrig, which give this book the quality of a family picture album. The appendix lists the all-time Yankee statistical leaders and provides a game-by-game abstract of DiMaggio's streak and Maris's miracle year. And there's smooth writing throughout, particularly in Anderson's chapter on the DiMaggio years...