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Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche - Christmas Love

from Have Yourself A Merry Indie Christmas Volume I by Various Artists

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A few years back, I blogged a piece on my favourite 50 albums of all time. At no 7, sandwiched between Joy Division and Bob Dylan, I listed the Roches eponymous debut from 1979. The Roches were three sisters from New Jersey. Maggie and Terre had sung harmony on “Was a Sunny Day”, a track on Paul Simon’s third album There Goes Rhyming Simon (1973) before joining up with their younger sister Suzzy to form the folk-pop combo The Roches in 1977.

The Roches introduced themselves to the world on the opening track of their debut album (a New York Times record of the year) in a way that characterised their often-quirky approach to making music - ‘We are Maggie and Terre and Suzzy, Maggie and Terre and Suzzy Roche / We don’t give out our ages and we don’t give out our phone numbers’. The Roches is a wonderful album and it’s most memorable tune “Hammond Song” was included in Pitchforks best songs of the 1970’s, as a result of its ‘unprecedented harmonies and perfect lyric’. 'Christmas Love' wasn't written in time for We Three Kings, The Roches seminal Christmas album, and was only recorded for the first time to be included in the Maggie Roche retrospective Where Do I Come From, Selected Songs (2018). I would like to thank Suzzy Roche for lending me a song that is very dear to her.

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from Have Yourself A Merry Indie Christmas Volume I, track released October 26, 2018

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