New Music Friday For Oct. 26: The 8 Albums You Should Hear Now

NPR ‘New Music Friday’ featuring “Stayin' Home" a previously unreleased demo recording from the collection 'Where Do I Come From' Selected Songs by Maggie Roche.  Robin Hilton and Ann Powers discuss the release and talk about the power of Maggie’s songwriting. 

For those who don’t, know Maggie Roche was in a group called the Roches with her two sisters, Suzzy and Terre, and I honestly can’t think of a more important songwriter and more important group, and Maggie is the songwriter’s songwriter in that trio. I think of the Roches as the great forgotten singer/songwriter group, cult favorites of aficianados of the form. How to explain what Maggie Roche does as a songwriter - she was the most wry, the most deeply observational, the most, at once, sort of down home and philisophical songwriter that I know of. I just long for people to hear her music so much, so I’m so excited that this collection exists for the world to discover. - Ann Powers NPR All Song Considered

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