“One Lovely Day” by Citizen Cope

The title track of Citizen Cope's sixth album, "One Lovely Day" arrived on July 17, 2012, through Rainwater Recordings, his second record for that label. He produced it himself, sings it and plays the guitar, and he brought in a deep bench to play it with him: James Poyser on piano and keyboards, Preston Crump on bass, Deantoni Parks on drums and Bashiri Johnson on percussion.

Strings fill it out, with Pico Alt and Christina Courtin on violin, Max Mandel on viola and Jeremy Turner on cello, and Manny Marroquin mixed what Steef van de Gevel recorded. The result has an unhurried, sun-warmed sway to it, the sound of a songwriter in no rush to get anywhere.

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