It's been five years since her last studio album and, with the passage of time, one-time folk waif Suzanne Vega has become a world-wise, world-class diva. After the technological experiments of 99.9° and the transitional Nine Objects of Desire, it might be an overstatement to assert that Vega has...
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New Yorker Suzanne Vega's third album, Days of Open Hand (1990) isn't her bestselling disc, but it is her finest -- its cryptic lyrics sophisticated melodies, and complex, crack-jazz playing reveal a formidable progression from her impressive debut five years before. Starting off as a folkie, Vega hit big with "Luka," a haunting, cinema verité portrait of domestic violence. Taken from her second...
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