Moonswept

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Moonswept
The Roches - moonswept.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 13, 2007
Genre Folk
Label 429 Records [1]
Producer Stewart Lerman and The Roches
The Roches chronology
The Collected Works of the Roches
(2003)
Moonswept
(2007)
Rhino HiFive: The Roches
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Moonswept is the final studio album by the folk trio The Roches, released in 2007. [5] The trio did not release any further studio albums before Maggie Roche's death in January 2017.

Track listing

  1. "Us Little Kids"
  2. "Only You Know How"
  3. "No Shoes"
  4. "Moonswept"
  5. "Family of Bones"
  6. "That Naughty Lady of Shady Lane"
  7. "Long Before"
  8. "Piggy Mask"
  9. "Huh"
  10. "Stop Performing"
  11. "Gung Ho"
  12. "Instead I Choose"
  13. "September 11th at the Shambhala Center"
  14. "Jesus Shaves"

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References

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  5. Pareles, Jon (January 21, 2017). "Maggie Roche, Who Harmonized With Her Singing Sisters, Dies at 65" via NYTimes.com.