This morning browsing the websites of various music acts (Mountain Goats, Black Lips, Lucy Roche Wainwright, The Roches) I came upon this Dictionary of Music Business Terminology on the Roches website. It’s kind of depressing but might be interesting/funny to some OTBKB readers.

I also found out that Terre Roche and Marian Wilson will lead a group in singing folksongs, rounds, and other goodies in beautiful Robert Wagner Park at Battery Park City on June 13th and June 27th from 7 until 8:30. “Everyone is welcome! Come sing, listen, play frisbee, or even just fall asleep on the grass among friends as the sun goes down over the river. (We’ll make sure someone wakes you up and sends you home at the end).”

Another thing I found out: Terre Roche gives guitar lessons. Yes. That’s right. All this and more on their website.

If you don’t know The Roches check out their self-named album from 1979. It is probably one of my fave LPs ever. Smart folk produced by Robert Fripp.

I like this description by Francis Karsten:

With a series of ’80s albums for Warner Brothers, Maggie, Terri, and Suzzy Roche invented a tart fusion of barber shop, doowop, and vaguely Celtic singing styles. Their voices could rise and dart around each other with the instinct only sisters possess, and their original material is by turn strangely funny and darkly evasive. Produced by the surprising choice of experimental guitarist Robert Fripp, the debut is their freshest recording, and a good avenue for new listeners to enter their captivating vocal world

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About the dictionary:

Compiled way back in the last century but perhaps still relevant, here are some helpful definitions for up and coming musicians and performers. They are the sort of thing you might hear coming out of the mouths of record company executives, club owners, agents, managers and record producers. We have found it helpful during our long career to be able to understand what people are really saying in a business context. We offer these to everyone who has the inclination to venture into the field of music.

On the left is the actual phrase that comes out of the person’s mouth. On the right is the meaning of that phrase.