Amy Rigby ’s latest album, last year’s Hang In There (Tapete), includes “I’m Too Old to Be So Crazy,” a song about gearing up for another go-round where she recounts the reasons a musician in her mid-60s shouldn’t tour again. She sings from plenty of experience: Rigby has been in bands since the 1970s, when she played country music in New York City punk clubs with the Last Roundup. Since then, she’s been a member of girl group the Shams, a celebrated solo performer, and a close collaborator with fellow singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Wreckless Eric (who’s also her spouse). She knows the travails of subsistence-level music-making firsthand. But as Rigby reveals over and over again in her two memoirs, Girl to City and Girl to Country (published in 2019 and 2025, re
Songwriter, memoirist, and resident of the world Amy Rigby returns with a new book

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