Keep On Doing Explained
Keep On Doing is the third studio album by the folk trio the Roches, released in 1982 on Warner Bros. Records.[1] [2] It is their second collaboration with Robert Fripp, following their 1979 debut album.
Critical reception
The New York Times opined that "the trio's close-harmony singing reaches an unprecedented richness and complexity."[1] The Christian Science Monitor deemed the album "a charmingly rough-cut LP full of whimsical folk."[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide wrote that the trio "regain some oddball focus from another oddball Fripp treatment."
Track listing
- "The Hallelujah Chorus" (George Frideric Handel)
- "Losing True" (Margaret Roche)
- "Steady with the Maestro" (George Gerdes)
- "The Largest Elizabeth in the World" (Terre Roche)
- "On the Road to Fairfax County" (David Massengill)
- "I Fell in Love" (Terre and Suzzy Roche)
- "The Scorpion Lament" (Margaret Roche)
- "Want Not Want Not" (Suzzy and Terre Roche)
- "Sex Is for Children" (Terre Roche)
- "Keep On Doing What You Do / Jerks on the Loose" (Suzzy and Terre Roche)
Personnel
- Recorded by Craig Leon. Assisted by Ken Tracht
- Recorded June, 1982 at Blue Rock Studios, New York City
- Maggie Roche – acoustic guitar, synthesizer, piano, singing
- Terre Roche – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, singing
- Suzzy Roche – acoustic guitar, singing
- Tony Levin – bass guitar
- Bill Bruford – percussion
- Robert Fripp – guitar and devices, on tracks 2, 9, and 10
- Tony Levin, Bill Bruford and Robert Fripp appear courtesy of E.G. Records
- Photography – front cover – Peter Cunningham
- Back cover – Irene Young
- Front and Back cover – Art Direction, Design – Rise Daniels
- Special thanks to Teddy Wainwright, Elizabeth Rush, Glen Zdon, Loudon Wainwright III, Mark Johnson
Notes and References
- News: Holden . Stephen . Roche Sisters' Big Step . The New York Times . 19 Nov 1982 . C5.
- News: Sullivan . Jim . Roches Are Where They Want to Be . The Boston Globe . 10 Dec 1982 . Arts . 1.
- News: Smith . David Hugh . Record Guide . The Christian Science Monitor . Arts . 16.
