Maggie & Terre Roche's album Seductive Reasoning, released 50 years ago, represents a misfit record that failed to garner commercial success, leading the sisters to leave the music industry temporarily. The album is hailed for its unique blend of personal reflections, harmonies, and youthful perception, emblematic of the sisters' college and high school drop-out experiences. Despite the lack of recognition at the time, Seductive Reasoning stands out as a poignant and rich collection of songs that has been overlooked for too long, deserving renewed appreciation and attention from listeners.
It's funny how one always wants to play their favorite records for friends, and they never listen properly, never understand them, Patricia Highsmith wrote in her diary in 1943.
Seductive Reasoning was such a non-hit that it drove Maggie and Terre, sisters from Park Ridge, N.J., out of the music business.
Seductive Reasoning is a young person's record, a product of overlapping propinquities, made by a college dropout (Maggie) and a high school dropout (Terre) who possessed swooping blood harmonies.
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