On April 10, 1991, “A&M” label released “Days of Open Hand”, the third Suzanne Vega album. It was recorded in 1990, at “Skyline Studios”, “RPM Studios” and “The Living Room”, and was produced by Anton Sanko and Suzanne Vega. The album won “Grammy Award for Best Recording Package” in 1991.
Personnel:
- Suzanne Vega – lead and backing vocals, acoustic guitar, Fairlight, hand claps
- Marc Shulman – electric guitar, tiple, electric 12-string guitar, E-Bow guitar, bouzouki
- Richard Horowitz– ney
- Anton Sanko – Hammond C3, Akai S1000, Sequential Circuits Prophet VS, Fairlight CMI percussion programming on 3 11, Voyetra Eight on 5 11, Fairlight, DX7II, string arrangements, classical guitar, tiple, harmonium, electric guitar
- John Linnell– accordion
- Michael Visceglia – five-string bass, fretless bass
- Erik Sanko– fretless bass
- Percy Jones– fretless bass
- Frank Vilardi – drums, rims, brushes, Akai S-1000, shaker, percussion, floor tom, snare drum, cymbal, Blastics
- Michael Blair – metal percussion, tambourine, wood percussion, shaker, orchestral bass drum, Chinese drum, hand drum
- Hearn Gadbois – dumbek
- Glen Velez– frame drum
- Shawn Colvin– backing vocals
- Sandra Park – 1st violin
- Hae-Young Ham – violin
- Tim Baker – violin
- Barry Finclair – violin
- Rebecca Young Schatz – viola
- Al Brown – viola
- Fred Zlotkin – cello
- Maria Kitsoupolos – cello
- Philip Glass– strings arrangements
Track listing:
All tracks by Suzanne Vega except where noted.
- Tired of Sleeping
- Men in a War
- Rusted Pipe – Suzanne Vega, Anton Sanko
- Book of Dreams – Suzanne Vega, Anton Sanko
- Institution Green – Suzanne Vega, Anton Sanko
- Those Whole Girls (Run in Grace)
- Room off the Street – Suzanne Vega, Anton Sanko
- Big Space – Suzanne Vega, Anton Sanko
- Predictions
- Fifty-Fifty Chance
- Pilgrimage – Suzanne Vega, Anton Sanko
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