Cry Cry Cry (band)
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Studio album by Lucy Kaplansky Richard Shindell Dar Williams |
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| Released | October 1, 1998 | |||
| Genre | Folk | |||
| Length | 49:20 | |||
| Label | Razor & Tie | |||
| Producer | Darleen Wilson | |||
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| PopMatters | (mixed) |
| Washington Post | (favorable) |
Cry Cry Cry was a folk supergroup, consisting of Richard Shindell, Lucy Kaplansky, and Dar Williams. The band released a single eponymous album of cover songs on October 13, 1998.
The trio performed together on an extensive tour in 1999 singing mainly the songs included on their collaborative album. The tour was met with very favorable reviews.
The trio performed on Sunday, June 18, 2017 at the Hudson River Clearwater Festival. It was the first time they had performed together in 18 years, according to Dar Williams, who announced it at the concert. She also said they would be performing more dates in the Fall of 2017.
The album, Cry Cry Cry was a great success on folk music radio. Based on playlists sent to FolkDJ-L, it ranked as the fourth most played album by folk music DJs in 1998, the fifth most played in 1999, and remained in the top 250 through 2002.
The trio contributed one song to the folk-tribute album Bleecker Street: Greenwich Village in the 60's, covering Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing on My Mind". The three also joined together to cover Buddy and Julie Miller's "My Love Will Follow You" on Shindell's solo album, Somewhere Near Paterson, and to provide backing vocals for the song "Blue Shadows" on Jimmie Dale Gilmore's album (produced by Buddy Miller), "One Endless Night".
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