2022, Club44 Records
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BroadwayWorld Cabaret Award Winner!
(Best Commercial Album)
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MAC Award Nominee
(Best Major Album)
Julie joins forces with jazz pianist (and her husband) Jason Yeager for a new duo album, which features the pair’s unique and intimate arrangements of songs from Broadway musicals, the Great American Songbook, and Yeager’s original compositions.
TRACK LISTING
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1. All I've Ever Known (Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell)
2. It Might As Well Be Spring (State Fair, Rodgers/Hammerstein)
3. People (Funny Girl, Styne/Merril)
4. Louisiana Fairy Tale (Gillespie/Parish/Coots)
5. Gainesville (Faust, Randy Newman)
6. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans? (DeLange/Alter)
7. Me, Myself, and I (Gordon/Roberts/Kaufman)
8. Mercedes Benz (Joplin/McClure/Neuwirth)
9. Sweet Pea (Jason Yeager)
10. If I Were A Bell (Guys and Dolls, Frank Loesser)
11. Just Begun (Jason Yeager)
12. Another Life (The Bridges of Madison County, Jason Robert Brown)
13. The Nearness of You (Carmichael/Washington)
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ARTISTS
JULIE BENKO | VOCALS, FLUTE, CLARINET
JASON YEAGER | PIANO, ORGAN, PERCUSSION
PRODUCED BY JULIE BENKO & JASON YEAGER
RECORDED, MIXED, AND MASTERED AT BIG ORANGE SHEEP, BROOKLYN
ALBUM ARTWORK BY DAN WANG
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PRAISE FOR
"HAND IN HAND"
"Close your eyes and the drapes and all seems right with the world."
-Talkin' Broadway
"A beguiling record, perfect to while away these late summer evenings."
-There Ought To Be Clowns
"The perfect Fannie Brice for our time, Ms. Benko may have had a secret weapon: the collaboration with her husband, the jazz pianist and composer Jason Yeager... They make us realize what an incredible song [People] actually is. Ms. Benko sings it like she truly is a person who needs people — or 'one very special person,' at the very least."
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