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About Everything's Fine
Product Description The songs on "Everythings Fine" showcase Alices powerful voice and melodic, deeply soulful songwriting talents. From the albums first track, Shotgun, with its hypnotic melody and haunting lyrical sentiment to the soaring harmonic anthem Shine On to the piano-driven ballad Drive, "Everythings Fine" reflects moments of memory, secret longings, self-awareness, and a keen sense of social observation. "Everythings 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 Broadways new generation, bridging the gap between pop music and theatre. Review 4 stars! Expertly melding many influences, Ripleys songs display a greater spiritual depth than a typical contemporary adult rock album. Each track is a gem! -- All Music Guide 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, Everythings 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 ordinaryin which shoes and steering wheels figure as largely as angels, and tragedy may be a sunny afternoon in suburbia. The Bradys rule, Alice singsas well she should, since her own experience, growing up, was a Brady-esque cobbling together of families. After her parents divorced and her father remarried, she found herself the middle child of eleven. Alice has joked that she didnt get her very own underwear until she left for college. Much of her writing reflects the uneasiness born of having come of age in a crowdboth loved and overlooked, unique and facelessyearning for recognition and identity. The voice that tells us Everythings Fine is a particularly American one, shaped by a particularly American childhood. Like many children of divorce, Alice shuttled between households, and in her case between statesthe demands of her fathers business forced him to move often, and the book of her growing up had chapters in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Indiana. The transient feeling of the songsof my lifecomes from going back and forth between my mother and my dad, and their moving. It isnt surprising that Alices first record is characterized by restlessnessby railroad tracks, packing boxes, and yellow lines on the highway. In the lovely, aching Drive, she makes escape her anthem: Guess Ill drive in my wheelin blue angel Out of the city, into the desert, across the ocean Guess Ill cry so unexpectedly Until Im dry and I can finally cease this constant motion Alices search for a true sense of belonging is emblematic of modern childhood. She was continually the new kid at school; she had a sudden, unconventional family. Her fantasies were of one day getting to ride with her father in the front seat of his car, or hear her mother acknowledge their long-ago happiness with one story, one photograph. And though it wasnt, the adults insisted everything was fine. This sense of denial is a major theme of Alices music. In the bitterly funny Suburbia, she tackles the forced normalcy of a middle-class neighborhood where unpleasantness is swept under the carpet: The Stepford family lives right next door They dont allow black-soled shoes on their hardwood floor Ive never seen them bleed, thats why Im so sure Theyre bionic to the core, every weekend at the shore in suburbia That was a huge identifying factor for meand I know that Im one of millions who experienced the same thingthe denial that theres any problem, or sickness or abuse, emotional or otherwise, or pain. My songs tell stories that people who grew up like me can relate toyou dont even have to tell them what the songs are about, because theyll know. The stories may be common. But the way theyre told, lyrically and melodically, makes them worth listening to, and thats what I never really got until recently, why I never made a record until now. By the time Alice attended Kent State University, her life had taken an unusual turn: When I was fourteen, I got a guitar and started taking guitar lessons. But I also started taking acting lessons. And theater became my church, my structure, my family, my identity. If I had practiced my guitar more, Id have been an awesome guitar player, and I know I would have been writing songs back then. But I gave my entire heart and being to the theater. So up until relatively recently, I havent really had the time or energy. After graduating with a degree in musical theater, Alice worked as a professional actor in San Diego and then
