Keep On Doing is the third studio album by the folk trio the Roches, released in 1982 on Warner Bros. Records. It is their second collaboration with Robert Fripp, following their 1979 debut album.
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Critical reception
The New York Times opined that "the trio's close-harmony singing reaches an unprecedented richness and complexity." The Christian Science Monitor deemed the album "a charmingly rough-cut LP full of whimsical folk." Less supportive, The Boston Phoenix felt that "the Roches haven't yet become the rule-breaking interpreters of urban, bohemian, feminine experience they once promised to be — perhaps because they draw too often on a common adolescence and a shared conversation for their satire."
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) – 3:33
"Losing True" (Margaret Roche) – 4:56
"Steady with the Maestro" (George Gerdes) – 3:45
"The Largest Elizabeth in the World" (Terre Roche) – 3:24
"On the Road to Fairfax County" (David Massengill) – 4:47
"I Fell in Love" (Terre and Suzzy Roche) – 4:20
"The Scorpion Lament" (Margaret Roche) – 3:34
"Want Not Want Not" (Suzzy and Terre Roche) – 2:56
"Sex Is for Children" (Terre Roche) – 3:38
"Keep On Doing What You Do / Jerks on the Loose" (Suzzy and Terre Roche) – 3:58
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
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