Artist: Lucy Kaplansky
Genre(s):
Pop
Folk
Discography:
The Red Thread
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
Every Single Day
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
When Lucy Kaplansky was 18 years previous, she appalled her neighbors in the Hyde Park area approximate the University of Chicago when, instead of going to college, she went to New York City with her fellow to become a folksinger. Fifteen years later, having suit a clinical psychologist as substantially as a sought-after dyad and harmony singer, she made another surprising decision: she gave up her private practice session and her attitude at a New York hospital to act on a full-time tattle calling.
Haggard to Greenwich Village in the late '70s by the revitalization of the folk music scene, she became a steady at Gerde's Folk City. By 1982, she was a fellow member of the CooP (later Fast Folk) and was featured on nine-spot of the group's "melodious magazines," along with Suzanne Vega, Shawn Colvin, John Gorka, Richard Shindell, and others. By 1983, however, Kaplansky had enrolled in New York University with the calculate of becoming a psychologist. Well known on the folk scene for her crystalline harmonies, Kaplansky american ginseng harmony vocals on Nanci Griffith's Lonesome Star State of Mind and Little Love Affairs albums and performed in New York clubs as a duet with Colvin while earning her Ph.D. from Yeshiva University. But when she and Colvin attracted attention from disc companies, Kaplansky declined, decorous a staff psychologist at a New York hospital and establishing a private pattern piece Colvin recorded her first base three albums for Columbia Records.
As a record of what Lucy had accomplished on the tribe scene, and to dedicate Colvin a chance to strain her hand at production, the two collaborated on Kaplansky's first album, The Tide, comprising trinity of Kaplansky's have compositions and a collection of trite covers, including songs by Richard Thompson, Sting, and Robin Batteau. By 1994, when The Tide was released by Red House Records, Kaplansky distinct to shift gears once again and turn a full-time touring folksinger. She exhausted much of the next few eld playing the folk circuit of coffeehouses, church halls, and festivals, accompanying herself on guitar and playacting in concert with Shindell and Gorka. In 1996, Red House Records released her second base album, Flesh and Bone, produced by Anton Sanko (Vega's Solitude Standing and Days of Open Hand). It includes 8 original songs (co-written with Kaplansky's hubby, film maker Richard Litvin), as well as duets with Shindell and Gorka. Ten Year Night followed in 1999. Every Single Day appeared in 2001 on Red House Records, with Bolshevik Thread in 2004 and Over the Hills in 2007, both besides on Red House.
