SUZANNE VEGA : Close-Up Vol 2: People & Places

Oct 10 2010 by Paul Cole, Sunday Mercury

SUZANNE VEGA

Close Up Vol 2 (Cooking Vinyl)

wAMERICAN singer songwriter Vega is working her way through her back catalogue, stripping songs to their bare bones. With the subtitle People & Places, this is the second stage of a four-album project that allows the lyrics to take centre-stage. The headliners here include a new version of Tom’s Diner wound around a bassline more subtle than the DNA dance version, an acoustic take on Luka, the story of child abuse that made her a household name, and the tragic tale of The Queen And The Soldier. PC