Lover, Beloved : Songs from an evening with Carson McCullers

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Admiring McCullers’ work for a long time, Suzanne Vega had already determined, when she was young, to pay tribute to her one day. On her new album, Vega inhabits McCullers’ extraordinary character and portrays the life of a woman who, revolted by the politics and racism of her upbringing in the American South, arrived in New York in her early twenties and became one of the literary lights of the 20th century. Lover, Beloved is a collection of 10 tracks from the musical Lover, Beloved: An Evening With Carson McCullers. In the play, McCullers is shown at two historical moments that changed her career: the first, in 1941, when The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter propelled her to literary fame, and the second shortly before her death, as a moving reflection on her life and work. The songs, written by Suzanne Vega and Duncan Sheik, richly capture the essence of the depth of the words and the avant-garde philosophical thoughts on gender and love. The recordings of Lover, Beloved evoke Gerry Leonard and the atmosphere of his electric guitar playing, over a beautiful acoustic bed with piano, bass, drums, accordion, trombone and clarinet.