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Biography
Kaplansky was originally from Chicago; at the age of 18, she decided not to go to college, but moved to New York City, where she became involved in the city's folk music scene, particularly around Greenwich Village , where she played with, among others, Suzanne Vega , Shawn Colvin and Richard Shindell .
In 1983, she decided to become a psychologist, enrolling at Yeshiva University. She continued playing music while doing her PhD, and began to have some success as part of a duo with Colvin. When they began to attract record company interest, Kaplansky declined, choosing instead to set up a private practice and become a staff psychologist at a New York hospital. For several years, she concentrated largely on this work, and played little in the way of concerts. She still did some session work, such as singing backing vocals in the studio for Suzanne Vega.
By the early 1990s she found herself increasingly drawn back to music. Colvin, who by this time had experienced some commercial success, offered to produce an album for her. The result, The Tide , a mixture of her own songs and several covers, was released by Red House Records in 1994. At this time, she decided to give up her psychology practice and return to music full-time. She released four more albums before her latest, Over The Hills, was released in 2007.
In 1998 Kaplansky joined with Dar Williams and Richard Shindell to form the folk group Cry Cry Cry (band)|Cry Cry Cry ; they made an album and toured at length before going their separate ways. Her Ten Year Night album in 1999 won rave reviews and boosted her popularity, leading to performances on CBS-TV. Her album, The Red Thread has a song about her experience of being a New Yorker on 9-11. Coincidentally, in August, 2001, Kaplansky sang harmony with John Gorka http://www.lucykaplansky.com/notes.html "Lucy Kaplansky Notes - Note of 2001-11-23" Retrieved on 2009-02-05. in a concert on the World Trade Center plaza.
She is a semi-regular collaborator with John Gorka and Nanci Griffith .
Her father was the noted mathematics|mathematician Irving Kaplansky (1917-2006). Lucy Kaplansky would sometimes perform songs composed by her father (who was also an accomplished pianist) on mathematics-related themes.
Discography
Solo releases
The Tide (Lucy Kaplansky album)|The Tide (1994, re-released 2005)
Flesh and Bone (Lucy Kaplansky album)|Flesh and Bone (1996)
Ten Year Night (1999)
Every Single Day (Lucy Kaplansky album)|Every Single Day (2001)
The Red Thread (Lucy Kaplansky album)|The Red Thread (2004)
Over the Hills (2007)
Collaborations
The Song Project (1985) with Frank Christian (singer-songwriter)|Frank Christian , Tom Intondi , and Martha Hogen
http://www.archive.org/details/LucyKaplansky Lucy Kaplansky collection at the Internet Archive 's live music archive
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