Suzanne Vega

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010

New York has often been a theme and muse for singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega. "Luka" was inspired by a child she saw on a street in the Chelsea neighborhood; "Tom’s Diner" was about an Upper West Side restaurant and her last album, "Beauty & Crime," was a collection of tunes of how the city changed by tragedies. She joins us to play live songs with a new theme, love, the subject of her new album.

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