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Songs from an Unmarried Housewife and Mother, Greenwich Village, USA

album by Suzzy Roche

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia

Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0

Source revisionMar 17, 2026

Entity authorityQ7561466 ↗

Source-derived summary

Songs from an Unmarried Housewife and Mother, Greenwich Village, USA is the second album by Suzzy Roche, released in 2000.

Production

The album was produced by Roche and Stewart Lerman, and contains appearances from Jules Shear and Loudon Wainwright III, among others.

Editorial summary

“Songs from an Unmarried Housewife and Mother, Greenwich Village, USA” enters the record as album by Suzzy Roche. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Songs, Unmarried and Housewife can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Songs, Unmarried and Housewife.

Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Songs from an Unmarried Housewife and Mother, Greenwich Village, USA” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Songs, Unmarried and Housewife provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7561466. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2000.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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Three-step research path

Establish the record: confirm the title “Songs from an Unmarried Housewife and Mother, Greenwich Village, USA”, its source revision and the description used here.
Expand the search: follow Songs from an Unmarried Housewife and Mother, Greenwich Village, USA primary sources, Songs from an Unmarried Housewife and Mother, Greenwich Village, USA archive and Songs research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Songs from an Unmarried Housewife and Mother, Greenwich Village, USA” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.