Over the Hills

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Over the Hills
Over the Hills Lucy Kaplansky.jpg
Studio album by Lucy Kaplansky
Released March 13, 2007
Recorded August 2006
Genre Folk, singer–songwriter
Label Red House
Producer Ben Wittman
Lucy Kaplansky chronology
The Red Thread
(2004) The Red Thread2004		Over the Hills
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Dirty Linen (favorable) [1]
Folkwax8/10) [2]
Vintage Guitar (favorable) [3]
The Washington Post (favorable) [4]

Over the Hills is the sixth solo album by New York singer–songwriter Lucy Kaplansky, released in 2007. [5] The album contains a mix of covers and original songs written with her husband, Rick Litvin.

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Lucy Kaplansky American folk musician

Lucy Kaplansky is an American folk musician based in New York City. Kaplansky has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Yeshiva University and plays guitar, mandolin, and piano.

Contents

The album is dedicated to the memories of the artist's father, Irving Kaplansky, and Red House Records founder, Bob Feldman. Several of the songs acknowledge the "gifts" that Kaplansky has received from these men.

Irving Kaplansky Canadian mathematician

Irving Kaplansky was a mathematician, college professor, author, and musician.

Red House Records is an independent folk and Americana record label in St. Paul, Minnesota. The label was founded in 1983 by Bob Feldman after seeing a performance by Iowa folk singer Greg Brown.

Over the Hills topped the Folk Radio Airplay Chart in March 2007. [6]

Track listing

Unless noted otherwise, lyrics by Lucy Kaplansky & Richard Litvin, music by Lucy Kaplansky

  1. "Manhattan Moon" – 3:54
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  2. "Amelia" – 4:08
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  3. "More Than This" (Bryan Ferry) – 4:22
    Jonatha Brooke American musician

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  4. "Ring of Fire" (June Carter, Merle Kilgore) – 4:25
    • Larry Campbell - electric guitar
    • Duke Levine - electric guitar
    • Stephan Crump - acoustic bass
    • Ben Wittman - drum set, organ
    • Lucy Kaplansky - acoustic guitar, background vocals
  5. "Swimming Song" (Loudon Wainwright III) – 3:01
  6. "Today's the Day" – 3:11
    • Ben Wittman - harmonium
    • Lucy Kaplansky - acoustic guitar, background vocals
  7. "Over the Hills" – 3:45
    • Charlie Giordano - accordion
    • Jon Herington - acoustic guitar
    • Stephan Crump - acoustic bass
    • Eliza Gilkyson - background vocals
    • Ben Wittman - harmonium
    • Lucy Kaplansky - acoustic guitar, background vocals
  8. "Somewhere Trouble Don't Go" (Julie Miller) – 3:31
    • Larry Campbell - electric slide guitar
    • Duke Levine - mandola
    • Stephan Crump - acoustic bass
    • Ben Wittman - percussion
    • Buddy Miller - background vocals
    • Lucy Kaplansky - background vocals
  9. "Someday Soon" (Ian Tyson) – 4:01
  10. "The Gift" – 3:43
    • Larry Campbell - pedal steel guitar
    • Duke Levine - electric mandolin
    • Stephan Crump - acoustic bass
    • Ben Wittman - floor tom
    • Richard Shindell - background vocals
    • Lucy Kaplansky - acoustic guitar

Charts

date chart peak
March 2007 Folk Radio Airplay Chart [6] 1

Credits

Musicians

See track listing above

Production

Artwork

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References

  1. ↑ Tom Nelligan, "Over the Hills", Dirty Linen , 131, August–September 2007, p.42
  2. ↑ Arthur Wood, "Memories and More" (REQUIRES FREE MEMBERSHIP), Folkwax , April 11, 2007
  3. ↑ Steven Stone, "Review: Lucy Kaplansky - Over the Hills", Vintage Guitar , June 2007
  4. ↑ Cathrine P. Lewis, "Review: Lucy Kaplansky - Over the Hills Red House Records", The Washington Post , May 4, 2007
  5. ↑ Allmusic entry for Over the Hills. Accessed May 4, 2009
  6. 1 2 March 2007 Top Albums, from playlists submitted to FolkDJ-L
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