Charlie Kaplan

"Light of the Day", Sunday

Charlie Kaplan is a singer/songwriter from New York. His latest album, Sunday, is a complete delight. The cover of the album, Sunday, is an image of himself, comprised of just a few squiggled pen marks. Winston Cook Wilson writes: 'In 2014 - two months after the passing of Kaplan's father - a stranger at a bar in Brooklyn sketched it for him on a napkin, as a birthday present. "I couldn't tell if the drawing was of me or my dad," Kaplan says, remembering the moment of receiving the gift. "I knew it was a drawing of me, because it was I who sat before that anonymous, taciturn artist at the bar. Yet the features were just the same as my dad's: a swoosh of hair; round glasses; full lips...It shook and somehow comforted me at the same time. That artist in the bar saw me; not just me sitting there but the negative space within me." Sunday has been in process more or less since that night.'