Vega, Suzanne: Lover, Beloved: Songs From An Evening With Carson Mccullers
Vega, Suzanne: Lover, Beloved: Songs From An Evening With Carson Mccullers
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Vega, Suzanne
Label: Perpetual Obscurity
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 698519260123
Genre: Folk
Vinyl LP pressing. Suzanne Vega celebrates the remarkable life of another distinguished writer, Carson McCullers, with the release of the new studio album inspired by the novelist entitled Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers. The songs, which she co-wrote with longtime friend and theatrical collaborator Duncan Sheik, richly capture the essence of McCuller's insightful words and forward-thinking philosophies on gender and love. "I feel that McCullers' ideas and thoughts are very modern," Vega says, "and she incarnates them in a way that other authors don't. She tried to live them and paid a price for it." In songs like "New York Is My Destination," "We of Me" and "Lover, Beloved," you can hear the signature cool detachment of Vega's singing and revel in the characteristically incisive observation of her lyrics, many of which deftly draw on McCullers' own writing. But the songs' elastic melody lines, loping rhythms, idiosyncratic instrumentation (including clarinet, harmonium, banjo, ukulele, trombone and accordion), and surprising arrangements (by guitarist extraordinaire Gerry Leonard, who also produced the album) are like nothing we've heard from Vega before.
Tracks:
1.1 Carson's Blues
1.2 New York Is My Destination
1.3 Instant of the Hour After
1.4 We of Me
1.5 Annemarie
1.6 12 Mortal Men
1.7 Harper Lee
1.8 Lover, Beloved
1.9 The Ballad of Miss Amelia
1.10 Carson's Last Supper
