SXSW Music: Suzanne Vega

The music portion of the SXSW festival began Wednesday, March 17, and just after midnight, at St. David's Historic Sanctuary, Suzanne Vega performed. She has been a favorite of mine since she first hit the scene about 25 years ago. She's putting out a new series of CDs under the banner "Close Up," acoustic solo versions of some of her best work. The first volume is Love Songs, which Ms. Vega kindly autographed for me. I had the chance to tell her that her album 99.9Fº is one of my all-time favorites. SXSW seems to have inconsistent policies about videotaping, sometimes they stop you, sometimes they don't. They didn't during Ms Vega's performance, so I'm happy to be able to present you with a song from that 99.9Fº album, Blood Makes Noise.