Vega has re-recorded her back-catalogue, both for artistic and commercial (and control) reasons, in the Close-Up series. Vol. 1 ( Love Songs ) and Vol. 2 ( People & Places ) appeared in 2010 while Vol. 3 ( States of Being ) was released in July 2011 followed by Vol. 4 ( Songs of Family ) in September 2012. Volumes 2, 3 and 4 of the Close-Up albums included previously unrecorded material; Volumes 2 and 3 each included one new collaboratively written song, while Volume 4 included three songs that Vega had written years earlier, but had not previously gotten around to recording. In all, Vega’s Close-Up series features 60 re-recorded songs and five new compositions, representing about three-quarters of her lifetime songwriting output.
Close-Up series began
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