THEY ARE GOING TO CRY CRY CRY AND THEN THEY WILL CRY SOME MORE

Let's first start with Lucy Kaplansky.  Lucy Kaplansky was born on February 16, 1960 in Chicago, Illinois.  When she graduated high school, she chose not to attend high school, but instead relocated to New York City where she joined Jack Hardy's Monday night songwriters' group which was held at The Cornelia Street Cafe located in Greenwhich Village.  She also contributed to fast folk magazine and antheology albums with Suzanne Vega, Julie Gold, Tracy Chapman, Shawn Colvin, Michelle Shocked, Suzy Bogguss, Suzanne Vega, Christine Lavin, Lyle Lovett, John Gorka, Rod MacDonald and Richard Shindell.  Lucy Kaplansky dropped out of the music industry in 1983 and enrolled to Yeshiva University with the aim of becoming a lisenced psychologist with a PHD.  She did duets with Shawn Colvin, but chose not to record any albums with her.  Doctor Lucy Kaplansky set up a psychology practice and then tossed it all away in 1994 to become a rock star instead.  Her latest album was released in 2012.

 

Shawn Colvin and Lucy Kaplansky

John Gorka, Lucy Kaplansky, and Jonatha Brooke

Joan Baez and Lucy Kaplansky

 And this is around the time that that I'll switch my conversation with the Gentle Reader towards the subject about Dar Williams. 

Dar Williams was born under the name Dorothy Snowden Williams on April 19, 1967 in Mount Kisco, New York.  Dar was either short for Darcy from the book and films Pride and Prejudice or Dorthy mispronounced.  After graduating high school, she skipped college to work in the theater after relocating to Boston Massachussettes.  And so she auditioned for roles in plays while working as a stage manager at the Opera Company of Boston.  She performing rock concerts at Cappuccino cafes in  Northampton, Massachusetts after relocating.  She recorded and released two currently out of print limited edition cassette tape exclusive albums entitled  I Have No History in 1990  and All My Heroes Are Dead in 1991.  Her first widespread album,   The Honestly Room, was released in 1993.  Her latest album, In the Time of GODS was released in 2012.

 

 

On October 13, 1998, Lucy Kaplansky, Dar Williams and Richard Shindell  formed a rock group known as Cry, Cry, Cry on October 13, 1998.  The trio released only one album of cover tunes and went on tour for only one year maximum before breaking up.  No new Cry Cry Cry albums are being planned.

 

 

Dar Williams, Lucy Kaplansky, Richard Shindell and Gillian Welch