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 Post subject: [2018-10-26] Maggie Roche "Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs" 2CD set (StorySound)
PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 5:06 am 
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Where Do I Come From is a collection of songs by Maggie Roche (1951-2017) that spans forty years, providing a glimpse into one of our most original American songwriters. Maggie was at the center of the long-running and much-admired music group The Roches, created with her sisters Terre and Suzzy. Maggie composed her songs for three voices to sing, fashioning the signature sound of The Roches. Where Do I Come From is a 32 track 2CD set of Maggie's songs, spanning her entire music career from her 1979 duo album with her sister Terre, through the Roches' 2007 reunion record. The collection, which has been compiled in close collaboration with Suzzy, also features 4 previously unreleased recordings: "Stayin' Home," an early song provides a snapshot of a young feisty Maggie as she ventures out into the world. "Down The Dream," a live studio track, was recorded after word that Columbia Records had doubts about the progress Maggie and Terre were making in their recording sessions. Another version of the song wound up on Seductive Reasoning, but this demo is classic, unedited Maggie Roche. "Where Do I Come From," the title track, was found among Maggie's things after her death and is most likely the last song she wrote. The newly recorded Christmas song, "Christmas Love," was not written in time to make it onto We Three Kings, the Roches' beloved Christmas recording. Her family, in loving memory, sings "Christmas Love" for this collection.

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[CD1]
1. Malachy's
2. Burden Of Proof
3. Jill Of All Trades
4. Underneath The Moon
5. West Virginia
6. Stayin' Home
7. Down The Dream
8. Hammond Song
9. The Married Men
10. Quitting Time
11. Pretty And High
12. The Female Position
13. Losing True
14. The Scorpion Lament
15. No Trespassing
16. Christmas Love

[CD2]
1. Speak
2. Big Nuthin'
3. Cloud Dancing
4. In The World
5. Nocturne
6. Feeling Is Mutual
7. A Dove
8. You're The One
9. Can We Go Home Now
10. You (Make My Life Come True)
11. My Winter Coat
12. A Prayer
13. One Season
14. Broken Places
15. Family Of Bones
16. Where Do I Come From

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 Post subject: [2018-10-26] Maggie Roche "Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs" 2CD set (StorySound)
PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 5:12 am 
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 Post subject: [2018-10-26] Maggie Roche "Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs" 2CD set (StorySound)
PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 1:18 pm 
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I didn't know that Maggie had passed in 2017. I will have to investigate the previously unreleased material.


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 Post subject: [2018-10-26] Maggie Roche "Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs" 2CD set (StorySound)
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The Roches were soooo good. I need to check into this as well.

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 Post subject: [2018-10-26] Maggie Roche "Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs" 2CD set (StorySound)
PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2018 5:52 pm 
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Big fan of The Roches, saw them twice in the 80's, and always preferred Maggie's songs by far. The best and most serious songwriter of the three. I may have most of these tracks, but it'll be great to have all her best work in one set, and the stuff I don't have will be a bonus.


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 Post subject: [2018-10-26] Maggie Roche "Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs" 2CD set (StorySound)
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are we to assume that the rendition of the song "Christmas Love" is a group effort by the family - in choral style?


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 Post subject: [2018-10-26] Maggie Roche "Where Do I Come From: Selected Songs" 2CD set (StorySound)
PostPosted: Fri Oct 19, 2018 2:51 pm 
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Suzzy Roche Shares 'Stayin' Home' From Sister Maggie's Posthumous Solo Release



Suzzy Roche's goal for the posthumous Maggie Roche compilation Where Do I Come From was "for her voice to be heard as much as possible." But the video for the unreleased 1972 demo "Stayin' Home," premiering exclusively above, provides a visual souvenir of the late singer-songwriter, too.

The clip, which features Roche dancing along to the song, was the idea of StorySound Records chief Dick Connette, who's releasing the compilation. "Right after she died I discovered a video of her dancing," Suzzy tells Billboard. "Maggie was very quiet and shy on stage, but then all of a sudden she would go and do this dance during the middle of one of the songs, which was so great. Dick took this dance and reconfigured it a bit and said, 'Why not let it be raw Maggie?'

"It really is her, and a different side of her. That's the thing I wanted, to put out the most possible information about her."

Suzzy acknowledges that the Where Do I Come From project has been "quite an emotional roller coaster" for her. It came from a direct charge from Maggie, who passed away during January 2017 from cancer at the age of 65. "In the last week of her life she asked me to please do something with her music," Suzzy recalls. "I was completely devastated by her death, and it really took me a year to even lift my head because my mother died four months later. It was a terrible year."

With Connette's assistance, Suzzy dove into a wealth of material Maggie left behind, putting together a two-disc, 32-track package due out on Oct. 26, which would have been Maggie's 67th birthday. The set spans her career up to 2007, with plenty of Roches material and songs from Maggie's 1975 duo album with the third Roche sister, Terre. It also features three other unreleased tracks -- the title track, "Down the Dream" and "Christmas Love," the latter a song Maggie wrote for the Roches' We Three Kings holiday album in 1990 that was recorded by members of the family especially for the compilation.

"(Maggie) told me she had always wanted to make a solo record, which I didn't know," Suzzy says. "So I wanted this to be that, and I wanted the songs to really have her voice as much as possible and span her entire songwriting life. Her songs are quite complicated -- deceptively simple but sophisticated, musically. And her songs really affected people."

Suzzy, who's curating a memorial concert for Maggie -- "the heart and soul of the Roches" -- on Dec. 4 at the Sheen Center in New York, has plenty of additional unreleased material from her sister's archives. But she isn't promising any future releases yet.

"Under my bed I have everything, all of her music," Suzzy says. "I was very hesitant to use some of these very rough things on (the compilation) because I didn't know if she would want half-finished things out. So I was very careful about the four things that are on there. It practically killed me putting this together, so I can't say if I'll let more of this material out or not."

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