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Vega gives props to NYC in New Album

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Monday, July 16, 2007

Twenty years ago Suzanne Vega became famous with "Luka," an unlikely single about child abuse. Later she struck a groove with "Tom's Diner." Today, she performs from her new album, "Beauty & Crime," which pays homage to her native New York. Later on the show: David Garland, host of WNYC's Evening Music and Spinning on Air, performs songs from his new album, "Noise In You."

Suzanne Vega

Suzanne Vega collects New York stories like a cop walking a beat. First it was the hit song "Luka," inspired by a child she saw on a street in the Chelsea neighborhood. Then it was "Tom’s Diner" which described an Upper West Side restaurant over a throbbing urban beat. Now, ...

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David Garland

For the last 20 years David Garland has been a host WNYC listeners turn to when they want to hear the latest in space-age bachelor pad music, pixie-ish folk-rock, and just about anything else offbeat and under the radar. But when he's not busy hosting two programs on our airwaves ...

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