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Suzanne Vega, Days of Open Hand, 1990 on A&M

Third studio album from Vega, following the massive commercial success of Solitude Standing, recorded in 1989 and 1990 and released in April 1990 by A&M. Contributors include Shawn Colvin (backing vocals on three tracks) and Anton Sanko who also co-produced with Vega. Philip Glass arranged the strings on “Fifty-Fifty Chance.” Certainly not as commercially successful...

John Eckman
Nov 2, 20261 min read

hird studio album from Vega, following the massive commercial success of Solitude Standing, recorded in 1989 and 1990 and released in April 1990 by A&M. Contributors include Shawn Colvin (backing vocals on three tracks) and Anton Sanko who also co-produced with Vega. Philip Glass arranged the strings on “Fifty-Fifty Chance.”

Certainly not as commercially successful as the previous album but a nice continued evolution of Vega’s songwriting and sound.

My copy—via Lemezkuckó in Budapest—is a Hungarian pressing on Gong labels.

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