Maggie, Terre and Suzzy--They're Back!
The Roches are Maggie, Terre and Suzzy — three Irish, Catholic, suburban, middle class sisters who have made their mark in folk music with quirky song lyrics and intricate harmonies. The trio has developed a loyal following over the years of being on the road or recording for nearly three decades.
In early 1997, the Roches announced they were going their separate ways; while Maggie remained quiet, Terre formed a new group, Terre Roche and Her Moodswings, and Suzzy issued her first solo LP, Holy Smokes.
Singing and touring together again after a 10-year hiatus. They haven't lost the off-kilter humor, vocal diversity or distinctive, poetic songwriting ability that earned them a loyal fan base, drawn to the eclectic musical synergy of the sisters. Fans are welcoming them back.
Suzzy believes the time apart has really helped them, and that evidence of that is really clear on their latest album "Moonswept."
"Each of us over the last 10 years have gotten better at what we do and explored our strengths. On this album, and in performing, we let each other do what we do best, stay out each other's way and support each other," Suzzy says. "In that way, it's a real classic Roche Sisters record. The arrangements are us. There's a lot of information on it, the music is beautiful, and people who are interested in us will really like it."
Bio
The Roche Sisters have been a staple on the folk and singer-songwriter scene since the 1970s, when they were recruited by Paul Simon to sing backup on his best-selling LP There Goes Rhymin' Simon.
Shortly thereafter, the duo released their own LP, Seductive Reasoning (one track produced by Paul Simon, 1975), an all-but-ignored album. The pair appeared as a duo for the last time at the Women's Music Festival in the summer of 1976.
That same year baby sis Suzzy dropped out of college to join them. "The power of three, blood ties and raw talent worked a strange alchemy, yielding something quite original and extraordinary."
Now a trio, The Roches immediately earned a loyal following on the Greenwhich Village club scene, where their wide ranging musical tastes and penchant for lyric wordplay garnered critical raves.
The New York Times named The Roches its Record of the Year for 1979. Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy developed a following, but it never went beyond a cult.
Moonswept, the trio's first album in 12 years, is their best album in 18 years.
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It's New York, 1979. Punk is petering out, disco's dying, hip hop's an inchoate art, new wave's ascendant. And The Roches . . . The Roches, where the hell did they come from? So far out of left field, it turns out, they might as well be in - Family reunion - Peabody, MA - North Shore Sunday
- The Roche Sisters in Newburyport. The uncanny harmonies remain, the ability to pen literate and witty lyrics has only sharpened with the insights gained through living another decade of life; and while they have been missed as a trio, they have not missed a beat as artists of relevance.
- Roche sisters enchant the audience
- At their very best, the Roches sound like angels setting haikus to music. On the ping-ponging "Ing," for example, Terre sang, "I'm always wondering/When it's thundering/Which is the better thing/To be still or running?"
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Holly Crenshaw described their music in The Performing Songwriter: "The Roches' art is filled with flashes of unexpected beauty, weird turns of phrase that suddenly veer off to the left, self-deprecating humor tinged with an edge of seriousness, and choir-like, three-part harmonies that dip and soar with an easy grace. It's a one-of-a-kind commodity that confounds categorization--and consequently, their ten albums have often fallen outside the safe parameters of commercial pop music."
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Live Performance!
They began like this:
We are Maggie and Terre and Suzzy.
Maggie and Terre and Suzzy Roche.
We don't give out our ages and we don't give out our phone numbers.
Sometimes our voices give out but not our ages and our phone numbers.
Suzzy spoke to the Herald News:
"Still, it constantly amazes us how our fans come out of the woodwork when and wherever we have a concert. The commercial world does not support us, but there is an element of magic at work when we are out there performing together. I guess that must be why people seek us out. %u2026 It is really a beautiful relationship with the audience, special."
And that was my experience!
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