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'I was a third-grade fan,' she puns, 'but that was in the days before I was cool.' So began a lifetime of pondering how and why some women can become cool and others never will of thinking about freedom and equality, life's promise and love's cost. The song paints the scene in saturated color, of Maggie peering through the dugout fence and watching the balls fly, seeing them as 'moonruns,' an allusion to the astronauts who also were all the rage then, and all men. Maggie remembers how, as a girl - already aware of 'a world of difference' splitting her off from the boys she admired - she longed to hit a homer with Gary, a dreamy fourth grader on a local baseball team. Terre sings lead Maggie's words tell the tale. The Roches' blend of distinctly slanted harmonies, vaudevillian humor and poignancy is all there in 'Moonruns,' a Seductive Reasoning outtake that's hardly long enough to be a saga, yet cultivates all those seeds. In a way, bending notes and tracing rhythms, Terre is always an author, too. She found in her sister Terre (who only occasionally wrote at this point) a mirror and a ballast: Terre's high, elastic voice could do things Maggie's contralto could not, and their intimacy made her interpretations of Maggie's versified thoughts highly intuitive. Now Terre tells that story in a keepsake-like book and accompanying anthology of recordings compiled from early live bootlegs, studio outtakes and tracks from a tour the two sisters did in 2000.Īs she absorbed the influences of master music crafters like Simon and Ry Cooder, Maggie began honing her unique gift for infusing wordplay-heavy magical-realist narratives with shocks of insight, particularly about how family and gender roles shape the lives of even the freest thinkers.

and made an album, Seductive Reasoning, with the help of Paul Simon. Earlier on, she and sister Terre had a high-school duo who toured the U.S. Roche, who died at 65 in 2017, was the anchor voice and primary songwriter in the scandalously undersung sister trio The Roches, whose catalog remains one of music's most inventive and enriching. But to my ears, none of the self-possessed wiz kids making bank today approach the wisdom and unfettered wit Maggie Roche possessed when she was 17. Precocity has become the norm in the TikTok-teened, Disney-fied pop world.

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