Editorial Reviews
Everything's Fine
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All Music Guide
4 stars! Expertly melding many influences, Ripley’s songs display a greater spiritual depth than a typical contemporary adult rock album. Each track is a gem!
About the Artist
“I was born six years before we landed on the moon,” writes Alice Ripley. “Seven weeks before the Beatles landed on the Ed Sullivan show, three weeks after John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and eleven days before Christmas.” On her debut album, Everything’s Fine, Alice again enters quietly into an America distracted by splashier events. In the stillness when no one else is looking, she writes the surprising poetry of the ordinary—in which shoes and steering... read more
Album Description
The songs on "Everything’s Fine" showcase Alice’s powerful voice and melodic, deeply soulful songwriting talents. From the album’s first track, “Shotgun,” with its hypnotic melody and haunting lyrical sentiment to the soaring harmonic anthem “Shine On” to the piano-driven ballad “Drive”, "Everything’s Fine" reflects moments of memory, secret longings, self-awareness, and a keen sense of social observation. "Everything’s Fine" is not a musical theatre album. Yes, Alice Ripley is a Broadway star like the other artists on the Sh-K-Boom label...but they are part of Broadway’s new generation, bridging the gap between pop music and theatre.