Suzanne Vega – Close Up vol. 2

Releasedate: 04-10-2010; Label: Cooking Vinyl
By: Sabine van Gameren

Suzanne Vega is an American singer/songwriter. In the latest 80’s she got her breakthrough and songs as “Luka” and “Tom’s Dinner” scored high on the international charts. Anno 2010 Suzanne releases two albums with remakes of her old songs.

The songs of this album are all stripped down. So this gives the total focus to the lyrics and the actual song. Her two greatest hits are on it two and about “Tom’s Dinner” it must be said that it was used as reference track for mp3. So basically it made her the mother of the mp3, but that does not mean that the album will be available as mp3 only. As physical release is there as well for the fans. In total there will be four of these stripped down albums, this being just the second one, gives you something to wait for if you are into this special material. No matter how long you have known Suzanne Vega’s music, these new versions give you more space to listen to the lyrics and hear things you did not hear any time before. So after all, this line of releases seem to be a perfect idea, cause after so many years of her, there is still not enough of her.

Tracklist: 01 Luka 02 Zephyr & I 03 New York Is a Woman 04 In Liverpool 05 Calypso 06 Fat Man and Dancing Girl 07 The Queen and the Soldier 08 Rock In This Pocket (Song of David) 09 Angels Doorway 10 Ironbound/Fancy Poultry 11 Neighborhood Girls 12 Tom’s Diner 13 The Man Who Played God

Links:
Suzanne Vega Official