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Lucy Kaplansky - Every Single Day Audio CD

A fair review of the Lucy Kaplansky "Every Single Day" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Lucy Kaplansky reviews here, or go back to the Lucy Kaplansky tabs.

Lucy Kaplansky Band: Lucy Kaplansky
Title: Every Single Day
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Release Date: 2001-09-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Written On The Back Of His Hand 2: Crazy Dreams 3: Every Single Day 4: Don't Mind Me 5: Broken Things 6: Guilty As Sin 7: Nowhere 8: No More Excuses 9: Song For Molly 10: You're Still Standing There 11: The Angels Rejoiced Last Night

It's OK
I liked "Ten Year Night" much better. I was rather disappointed with this album. This one was often very depressing, and sometimes really cheesy. There were a couple of good tracks in the beginning, but it slips downhill after about the third song, and by the end you're glad it's over.


Absolute Brilliance!
:) This is new folk on an intellectual level, and far from brainless pop. Did you know that Lucy is also a PhD Psychologist?? She is also one of the best folk singers in the world. I got interested in LK's music after discovering John Gorka about ten years ago. She has crafted her own style and doesn't hide behind the styles of others, something to be greatly respected!
The best tracks on this fantastic CD are the title track and "Crazy Dreams. "

She has so much more to contribute to the music world. I hope she keeps growing. LK has tremendous talent. I hope to see her live some day. .


Summer Night Dream
I was not blown away and I was not utterly speechless. I picked up this album when I was working at Newbury Comics based upon the performance at New Bedford's Summerfest by Lucy. I was comforted by soothing vocals and little guitar lines that you miss the first time you hear the songs. I would play this cd almost every night over the course of that summer, soundtracking my falling in love with my girlfriend. If you want a top effort by a singer/songwriter, check this out. I did and I'm veddy veddy happy.


A step backward, but still has gems
Not knowing the area, I left early in the rental and found a clustering of people already waiting in line (a good sign, I thought). I stumbled upon LK in San Diego a few years ago, with time to kill on a business trip, simply wanting to visit a coffee house I had heard so much about (Java Joe's). I had never heard LK, but I quickly assumed I was in for a treat as those in line (who had seen her before again and again and again) gave me the head's up. I was not disappointed----she was mesmerizing. I bought everything she had with her (four CD's up through Ten Year Night--the track she had on Nod to Bob, and many others, made that CD a special treat).

A half dozens shows later, including some cuts off the new Every Single Day CD, I was only more and more mesmerized, I was rabidly awaiting the release of the new CD.

Got it. First song is a killer. Then, unexpectedly, with each song, almost in a linear fashion, instead of more and more, I gradually found less and less. . . . .

I can't imagine not going to see her live any chance I can (next in Pittsburg in a couple of months!), but going back to this CD has repeatedly elicited the same response. . .

The problem may be very simple: how can one follow-up Ten Year Night? THAT is the CD that captures LK more than any other.

Every Single Day is a good album, but only good, relative to LK in general. After many stellar live shows and Ten Year Night, this new CD had a lot to live up to.


THE all-time perfect voice for harmonies! Lucy is fantastic.
Topics of songs she penned for this one range from the domestic violence of opener "Written on the Back of His Hand" to true human guilt, to the three generations of women and a wedding ring of "Molly's Song. This is Lucy Kaplansky's 4th and best solo album with guest appearances from Steve Earl, John Gorka, and others. " Her own songs have a quality of observation of human nature that rings true.

Lucy Kaplansky began 20 or so years ago singing harmonies with Shawn Colvin in the Northeast folk circut. She is no Colvin clone, though, and is actually a more accomplished vocalist than her old partner. She came of age with fellow artist John Gorka, with whom she still often collaborates on stage. She left music for many years to complete a PhD and work as a psychologist. 7 years ago she returned to recording and touring on her own as well as being 1/3 of the super group Cry, Cry, Cry (Dar Williams & Richard Shindell). She is at the height of her talents when she harmonizes, and creates absolutely magical, spiritually trancendent moments in concert. A capable guitarist, and stunning interpreter of other's as well as her own compositions, she is a truth teller. Her voice is clear and perfect and unaffected. Perhaps her best, most beautiful recorded work to date is found on The Wayfaring Strangers' album "Shifting Sands of Time. " Be sure to check out "High on a Mountain" and "Wayfaring Stranger" on that offering. She also appears on Nina Gerber's new album in a standout cover of a Nancy Griffith tune. She appears on "A Nod To Bob" a tribute album by various artists celebrating Dylan's 60th b-day, and on the Greg Brown trubute "Going Driftless" that raised money for breast cancer research.

Her cover of Julie Miller's "Broken Things" on Every Single Day is stunning. She is maturing rapidly as a songwriter, and as a performing musician she is a knockout! Be sure to also check out "Ten Year Night," a solid album which preceeded this one. Run, do not walk, to see this woman in concert, solo or with anyone. She is superb.


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