Suzanne Vega - The Best of Suzanne Vega: Tried and True

This excellent overview of Vega's career contains all the hits and a fair sampling from each of her five albums, though Days Of Open Hand receives a cold shoulder (only "Book of Dreams" represents it here), being a critical and personal failure. The CD as a whole shows that while Vega has stayed fairly consistent as a songwriter, her growth has been marked in the collaborations with various producers, from the spare, simplistic sound stages of Steve Addabbo and Lenny Kaye to the lush metallurgy of Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake. Read More