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Days of Open Hand is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, released on April 10, 1990 by A&M Records. Anton Sanko and Vega produced the album. It won the Grammy Award for Best Recording Package in 1991.

Days of Open Hand
Studio album by Suzanne Vega
Released	April 10, 1990 (1990-04-10)
Recorded	September 1989-January 1990
Studio	Skyline Studios (New York City) RPM Studios (New York City) The Living Room (New York City)
Genre	Folk rock pop
Length	45:51
Label	A&M
Producer	Anton Sanko Suzanne Vega
Suzanne Vega chronology
Solitude Standing (1987) Days of Open Hand (1990) 99.9F° (1992)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Entertainment Weekly	B−[2]
New Musical Express	7/10[3]
Q	[4]
Robert Christgau	B−[5]
Rolling Stone	[6]

In a 2016 interview, Vega stated that by this time in her career, she felt trapped by industry expectation. "We worked for a whole year on that album. In the end I wasn't really happy with it and there was this palpable sense of disappointment that we'd only sold a million copies. Now that seems really ridiculous. It felt like a crime that we didn't sell three million!"[7]

Track listing

Personnel

• Suzanne Vega – vocals, acoustic guitar (tracks 1,2,4,6,9), backing vocals (tracks 1,2,4,7,11), Fairlight synthesizer on "Rusted Pipe" and "Big Space"
• Anton Sanko – guitar, Hammond C3 organ, tiple, Sequential V.s., Dx711, Voyetra 8, Fairlight synthesizers, Akai S-1000 sampler, programming; string arrangement on "Institution Green"
• Shawn Colvin – backing vocals (tracks 2-4)
• Marc Shulman – E-bow on "Institution Green" and "Predictions", electric guitar (tracks 1-5,9,11), tiple guitar (tracks 1,6,8,11), 12-string electric guitar on "Book of Dreams", bouzouki on "Big Space"
• Michael Visceglia – five-string bass (tracks 1-4,6), fretless bass (tracks 5,9,11)
• Erik Sanko – fretless bass on "Room Off the Street"
• Percy Jones – fretless bass on "Predictions"
• John Linnell – accordion on "Tired of Sleeping"
• Richard Horowitz – ney on "Room Off the Street"
• Hearn Gadbois – dumbek
• Michael Blair – marimba on "Rusted Pipe", metal percussion and tambourine on "Men in a War" and "Book of Dreams", percussion on "Institution Green", shaker on "Room Off the Street", hand drum and shaker on "Pilgrimage"
• Glen Velez – drums
• Frank Vilardi – drums and percussion (tracks 1-5,11), rims and brushes on "Institution Green", Akai S-1000 sampler on "Those Whole Girls (Run in Grace)", percussion and shaker on "Big Space", snare and tom tom drums on "Predictions", blastics on "Pilgrimage"
• Philip Glass – string arrangement on "Fifty-Fifty Chance"[8]
• Maria Kitsopoulos - cello on "Institution Green"
• Fred Zlotkin - cello on "Fifty-Fifty Chance"
• Sandra Park - first violin on "Institution Green"
• Barry Finclair - violin solo on "Fifty-Fifty Chance"
• Hae Young Ham - violin on "Institution Green"
• Timothy Baker - violin on "Fifty-Fifty Chance"
• Rebecca Young - viola on "Institution Green"
• Alfred Brown - viola on "Fifty-Fifty Chance"

Production

• Bob Ludwig – mastering
• Hugh Padgham – mixing
• Pat McCarthy – engineer
• Pat Dillett – assistant engineer
• Geoff Keehn – engineer
• Jeff Lippay – assistant engineer
• Jon Goldberger – assistant engineer
• Kurt Munkasci – string engineer[8]

Charts

Weekly chart performance for Days of Open Hand

Chart (1990)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[9]	74
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[10]	9
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[11]	33
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[12]	29
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[13]	16
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[14]	24
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[15]	16
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[16]	19
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[17]	19
UK Albums (OCC)[18]	7
US Billboard 200[19]	50

Year-end chart performance for Days of Open Hand

Chart (1990)	Position
European Albums (Music & Media)[20]	87

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[21]	Gold	100,000^
Summaries
Worldwide	—	1,000,000[7]
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Peak position
1990	"Book of Dreams"	Billboard Modern Rock Tracks	8
		Canada	30[22]
		UK Singles Chart	66[23]

References

External links

• The Album Pages fansite: Days of Open Hand link
• Suzanne Vega Discography: solo albums page link

На других языках

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[it] Days of Open Hand

Days of Open Hand è il terzo album della cantautrice statunitense Suzanne Vega, pubblicato nel 1990.

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[ru] Days of Open Hand

Days of Open Hand — третий студийный альбом американской фолк-певицы Сюзанны Веги, выпущенный в апреле 1990 года. В 1991 году диск получил премию Грэмми в категории Grammy Award for Best Recording Package и получил положительные отзывы музыкальной критики в США[1][2][3][4].

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