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Songs in Red and Gray

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Released
  
September 25, 2001

Artist
  
Suzanne Vega

Producer
  
Rupert Hine

Genres
  
Folk rock, Pop rock

Length
  
45:31

Release date
  
25 September 2001

Label
  
A&M Records

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Recorded
  
November 2000 – May 2001 at Looking Glass Studio

Songs in Red and Gray (2001)
  
Retrospective The Best of Suzanne Vega (2003)

Similar
  
Suzanne Vega albums, Folk rock albums

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Songs in Red and Gray is the sixth studio album release by New York-based singer/songwriter and musician Suzanne Vega. The album was Vega's final album for A&M Records (with whom she had been since 1983) and also marks the divorce from her husband and producer Mitchell Froom.

Contents

Suzanne vega songs in red and gray


Music and lyrics

The album shows a return to Vega's early musical form of acoustic folk-pop, shedding the stylistic experimentalism she had developed with producer and husband Mitchell Froom in the 1990s. New producer Rupert Hine shows some traces of his past work with '80s new wave bands by employing electronic beats, but mostly allows Vega's voice and guitar to dominate the tracks in a manner reminiscent of her debut album and its 1987 follow-up, Solitude Standing.

Lyrically, most of the songs, like "Widow's Walk" and "(I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May", deal with the unhappy dissolution of her romance with Froom. Vega's "calm, hushed, clear singing" belies the album's "mood of heartbroken defiance". Its lyrical content represents "the most personally revealing songs she has written" in her career.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Suzanne Vega; except where indicated:

  1. "Penitent" – 4:16
  2. "Widow's Walk" – 3:33
  3. "(I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May" – 3:47
  4. "It Makes Me Wonder" – 4:00
  5. "Soap and Water" – 3:03
  6. "Songs in Red and Gray" – 4:18
  7. "Last Year's Troubles" – 3:35
  8. "Priscilla" – 4:14
  9. "If I Were a Weapon" – 2:45
  10. "Harbor Song" – 4:18
  11. "Machine Ballerina" – 2:57
  12. "Solitaire" – 2:10
  13. "St. Clare" – 2:30 (Jack Hardy)
  14. "Golden" – 3:53 (available in the Japanese release only)

Personnel

  • Suzanne Vega – lead vocal, acoustic guitar, harmony vocals, distorted acoustic guitar
  • Rupert Hine – drum programming, bass, piano, strings, keyboards, percussion, woodwinds, orchestral percussion
  • Nick Hugh – drum programming, synth lead
  • Gerry Leonard – electric guitars, acoustic guitars, mandolins, zither, dulcimer
  • Elizabeth Taubman – harmony vocals
  • Matt Johnson – drums
  • Mike Visceglia – bass
  • Jay Bellerose – drums
  • Doug Yowell – drums, percussion
  • Pamela Sue Man – backing vocals, harmony vocals

    • Songs

    1Penitent4:19
    2Widow's Walk3:34
    3(I'll Never Be) Your Maggie May3:48

    References

    Songs in Red and Gray Wikipedia
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