![]() Though still possessed of a girlish voice, the 48-year-old Vega seems to have hit her middle aged stride on this cool, quintessentially New York set in which she assesses her past and long since vanished scenes, beginning with the Lou Reed-ish "Zephyr and I." Looking down West End Avenue with her late brother Tim's friend, the graffiti artist Zephyr, she recalls the now vanished 1970's scene. The album won a well-deserved Grammy, this past February (2008), for "Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical." At a time when the shortsighted have all but declared the album form either dead or dying, Suzanne Vega's latest one (issued on CD July, 2007 and more recently on vinyl by Classic Records) is a cool reminder that putting together a coherent program of well-produced (and carefully recorded) tunes remains a most satisfying musical art form. ![]()
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