Suzanne Vega – Songs In Red And Gray

Suzanne Vega is back to square one. In Mitchell Froom found the singer/songwriter ever the ideal producer for her frail songs, after which they even with him in the marry. When the marriage ran, Suzanne had to look for another producer. The job went to Rupert Hine, who earlier plates made with Tina Turner and Stevie Nicks. Together with him is Suzanne returned to the intimate sound of her first albums. That will be for the fans of the first hour a relief. They were to a large extent pulled out when Suzanne went experimenting with dance rhythms, more or less following on from the success that the mixers of DNA had with their version of Tom's Dinner. Artistic were these plates certainly succeeded, already threatened the charm of Suzanne's songs to be snowed under by all production frills. On Songs In Red And Gray are still to hear echoes of these productions but the emphasis is on the acoustic guitar by Suzanne. Hine took care of an appropriate musical setting of the individual songs of Vega, which this record has clearly used to the frustrations surrounding the separation of. It has more than five years but the new album by Suzanne Vega turns out to be worth the wait.

This album really was a homecoming for Suzanne... it's kinda old now but when it came out she had an interview where she was talking about how she had a sort of writers block deal going on at the time and she decided to join a writers circle. It's where a bunch of songwriters get together and write songs and perform them for each other. She said that most of these tracks came from those sessions in the writing circle. You can REALLY tell the difference between this album and her previous couple.. this is definitely her strongest album since Solitude Standing, and in my opinion this is one of the best songwriting albums period.