| Songs from an Unmarried Housewife and Mother, Greenwich Village, USA | ||||
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| Released | 2000 | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Label | Red House [1] | |||
| Producer | Stewart Lerman, Suzzy Roche | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Courier-News |  [3] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
| The San Diego Union-Tribune | [5] |
Songs from an Unmarried Housewife and Mother, Greenwich Village, USA is the second album by Suzzy Roche, released in 2000. [6] [7]
The album was produced by Roche and Stewart Lerman, and contains appearances from Jules Shear and Loudon Wainwright III, among others. [8]
AllMusic wrote that "producers Stewart Lerman and Roche have just the right touch with her heartfelt and strong folk music; it sings out rather than sits back sounding quaint -- no easy task for a voice as sweet and old-fashioned as Roche's." [2] SF Weekly thought that "Roche sings out strong rather than getting played down in a creaky, back porch mix." [9] The Morning Call called the album a "much brighter second solo record," writing that it "has a stardust shuffle, a bluegrass shuffle and a bundle of healthy romantic compromises." [10]
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