Life on a String (album)

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Life on a String
Studio album by Laurie Anderson
Released	August 21, 2001
Recorded	2000–2001
Studio	Lobby Studio, New York City Magic Shop, New York City Edison Recording, New York City
Genre	Avant-garde Experimental music Pop music
Length	43:55
Label	Nonesuch 79539
Producer	Laurie Anderson Hal Willner
Laurie Anderson chronology
Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology (2000) Life on a String (2001) Live in New York (2002)

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Rolling Stone	[2]

Life on a String is the sixth studio album by performance artist Laurie Anderson, released in 2001 on Nonesuch Records.

One of Anderson's predominantly musical (as opposed to spoken-word) albums, Life on a String was recorded at the Lobby Studios in New York City under the musical direction of Skúli Sverrisson, and produced by Anderson and Hal Willner. Guest musicians on the album include Van Dyke Parks, Mocean Worker, Mitchell Froom and Lou Reed.

The first three songs, "One White Whale," "The Island Where I Come From," and "Pieces and Parts," were taken from her show Songs and Stories from Moby Dick. The song "Slip Away" is about the death of her father. "Washington Street" is about Washington Street, Manhattan.