September 11, 2008 Music

Amy Rigby Plays Memphis Tonight 

by John Branston
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  • Amy Rigby
Amy Rigby is the best songwriter you've never heard. Post-punk grad, former temp worker, single mom, touring musician: Rigby made her bid to be American music's chief chronicler of underemployment and bohemian domesticity with her 1996 debut, Diary of a Mod Housewife. This week she'll make her second appearance in Memphis, at the Hi-Tone Thursday night ...

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