Suzanne Vega - 'Close-Up Vol 2, People & Places'

The second album in Suzanne Vega's 'Close-Up' series, in which she re-interprets her own songs, is 'People & Places' and it's due out on 12 October. Suzanne says:

Volume 2 of the Close-Up series are songs about people and places, some of them real and some of them mythic.

This album begins and ends in New York City, where I am from. In between we visit other lands, some of them imaginary. The songs in between are about goddesses, whores, unhappy wives, honest men, and forgotten kids. We end, of course, at Tom’s Diner.

I put the songs together in certain ways because they reflect off of each other. For example, there are two songs about children back to back in “Luka” and “Zephyr & I”; also two men battling something bigger than themselves in “Queen and the Soldier” and “Rock In This Pocket.” Each song leads into another one that relates to it in some way.

There is one new song here, "The Man Who Played God," which is based on Pablo Picasso. The original of this song is on the album Dark Night of the Soul by Sparklehorse.

These songs are the ones people have called “objective” or “journalistic”. Anyway I hope you like our journey!

The tracklisting is:

1 Luka
2 Zephyr & I
3 New York Is a Woman
4 In Liverpool
5 Calypso
6 Fat Man and Dancing Girl
7 The Queen and the Soldier
8 Rock In This Pocket (Song of David)
9 Angels Doorway
10 Ironbound/Fancy Poultry
11 Neighborhood Girls
12 Tom’s Diner
13 The Man Who Played God

If you pre-order through Suzanne's site you get an immediate download of 'Priscilla', plus there are five other bonus track downloads.