[1] After playing with several New York bands she began a solo career, recording several albums which had only modest sales despite enthusiastic reviews.
She settled into a career of touring while raising a daughter, then formed a duo with Wreckless Eric, whom she also married.
She married dB's drummer Will Rigby in the 1980s, and during the late 1980s and early 1990s recorded with New York bands such as The Shams and Last Roundup.
After leaving Koch, she recorded for the Signature Sounds label, and also sold live CD and DVD material through her website.
Til The Wheels Fall Off, with its opening track, "Why Do I," produced by Richard Barone, was released on Signature in 2003, and Little Fugitive in 2005.
The weekly newspaper The Nashville Scene said that Little Fugitive "finds Rigby as sharp as ever, even as many of the songs evince the fuzz of dislocation...or the exasperation of a survivor who hasn't lost her sense of humor but knows that jokes have their limits."
Her influences also include New York City punk rock, especially as played at the famous CBGB club, as well as the Beatles and other mid-1960s pop.