PREFACE

What the hell is going on with the Suzanne Vega Info Center? They are "extremely busy" with answering the mail and suddenly their address appears in some Italian magazine. We still don't know which one but maybe one of our Italian friends can solve this mystery. And all of a sudden people are writing letters to Amsterdam because after sending a letter ot postcard to New York they received a postcard with our address for further information. Of course we like that very much. This year Language is being read in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, Belgium, Israel, Yemen, St. Maarten, Rumania, United States and even in the Netherlands. What will happen if all these members of the Info Center will tell their Vega-friends about us? Then we have to hire a person for answering the mail. Hello, hello I like to do that.

Well, we will see what happens next year. Maybe then we will organize another Vega-party in Amsterdam or afterwards a concert of Suzanne somewhere in Europe. We remember the party of October 4 this year. A memorable day because of the discussions between Italy, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands about the best song, video, album, haircut, etc. We have not forgotten this and maybe in the next issue of Language we will use some of that information. The next issue will be published in February. It will be a special issue about 99.9Fo and will include such topics as the Cohen-Vega interview, the opinion of the critics and the success of Suzanne's amazing album.

Hopefully this issue is special to you too. Please buy Shawn Colvin's album as soon as possible, because even without a contribution from Suzanne it is a good one. You can read this in the review of Fat City. Sweden plays a big part this time with two interviews from Stockholm and the imaginative opinion of our Swedish agent. Read about the man behind the folk-rock, Richard Thompson, Buddhism and the extra tracks of the single-CD's. Part 2 of the SongTalk interview is as interesting as the first part. Hopefully you will be able to read this issue sitting under the Christmas tree. Happy New Year!


Karien


[From a postcard:]
Thank you--
Suzanne Vega


For further information contact:
Suzanne Vega Info Center
Geleenstraat 18
1078 Le Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Language ©1992 Suzanne Vega Info Center. For info, send mail to: Karien Smeding or Hugo Westerlund. Typing by Steve Zwanger