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Diary of a Mod Housewife
Diary of a Mod Housewife is the debut album by the American musician Amy Rigby, released in 1996.[2][3] It has been called a concept album about growing older in a music scene, marriage, motherhood, and romantic dissolution.[4][5] Rigby supported the album with a North American tour.[6] ProductionThe album was produced by the Cars guitarist Elliot Easton, with the dB member Gene Holder.[7][8] Rigby duets with John Wesley Harding on the album's third track, "Beer & Kisses".[9] Ira Kaplan contributed organ to "That Tone of Voice".[10] Diary of a Mod Housewife was written while Rigby was doing temp work in New York.[11] Critical receptionRobert Christgau thought that Rigby personalizes "the political for a bohemia that coexists oh so neatly with structural underemployment [and thinks] harder about marriage than a dozen Nashville homilizers."[5] Entertainment Weekly called the album "an impressive debut," writing that the songs "occupy a world where relationships, jobs, and urban life are rife with unfulfilled promise."[14] The New York Times wrote that, "like Kate McGarrigle and Iris DeMent, Ms. Rigby has a reedy voice with steely underpinnings," writing: "With clear-cut melodies and an exacting eye, songs like 'Beer and Kisses' and 'Just Someone I Had in Mind' measure the distance between romance and reality."[18] The Philadelphia Inquirer placed the album on the "short" list of "grown-up rock-and-roll records that examine monogamy with insight and intelligence."[19] Stereo Review deemed it "a cross between the Go-Go's, Buddy Holly, and a female cowpunk band."[20] The Winston-Salem Journal called it "a disgruntled look at the disheveled life of a creative thirtysomething woman."[17] AllMusic wrote that "in addition to her knowing lyrical eye, Rigby is also a terrific composer who synthesizes elements of rock, country, folk and girl group-era pop."[12] Track listing
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