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Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers is the ninth studio album by the American singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega, which was released on October 14, 2016. [1] The album is based on the 2011 play Carson McCullers Talks About Love about the life of the writer Carson McCullers , written and performed by Vega.
They praised Froom for "diversifying Vega's folkie feel by introducing tempo changes, weird background stuff and providing a great base for her soft voice". [6] A reviewer from Music Week rated it four out of five, adding, "A poppy lead single to Vega's forthcoming boundary-blurring album.
Suzanne Nadine Vega (née Peck; born July 11, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter of folk-inspired music. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Vega's music career spans almost 40 years. In the mid-1980s and 1990s she released four singles that entered the Top 40 charts in the UK, " Marlene on the Wall ", " Left of Center ", " Luka " and " No Cheap Thrill ".
"Caramel" was influenced by the Bossa nova music of the 1960s, which Vega grew up listening to. In a 1997 interview for Power Music Network, Vega said, "'Caramel' was intended to be one of those old fashioned songs, like "The Girl from Ipanema," or what Astrud Gilberto would sing. I used to really love that kind of music when I was a teenager."
In a review for Rolling Stone, Paul Evans awarded the album four out of five stars, stating it consists of "her hardest and loveliest music yet". He went on to refer to the trio of "Men in a War", "Institution Green" and "Fifty-Fity Chance" as a "suite of songs astonishing for their cleareyed gaze at pain", comparing Vega to poets Emily ...
An Evening of New York Songs and Stories is a live album by the American singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. It was recorded in March 2019 [7] at Café Carlyle in the Upper East Side, Manhattan, New York City. This recording was released on September 11, 2020. [1]
99.9F° (pronounced Ninety-Nine Point Nine Fahrenheit Degrees) is the fourth album by American singer and songwriter Suzanne Vega. [3] Released in 1992, the album marked a departure for Vega, as she embraced a more electronic, experimental sound. [4] It peaked at No. 86 on Billboard magazine's album chart and was Vega's fourth Top 20 album in ...
"Blood Makes Noise" is a song written and performed by American singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. It was released as the second single from her fourth album, 99.9F° , in August 1992. It debuted at number 14 on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart [ 2 ] and reached number one a month later.