I first heard Cry, Cry, Cry on WFUV; the same station that first turned me onto Dan Bern, Ron Sexsmith, The Jayhawks and so many others. I think the first track of theirs I heard was Shades of Grey, which was then a new cut from their self-titled album. The three members of Cry, Cry, Cry are Lucy Kaplansky, Richard Shindell and Dar Williams.
I think the next thing I heard was their cover of The Kid, by Buddy Mondlock. WFUV played it back to back with the familiar version by David Wilcox and the difference was striking enough that I wasn't annoyed at listening to the same song twice.
I think I then heard either The Ballad of Mary Magdalene or Down by the Water, and I was hooked. I meant to go out and get the CD right away, but I couldn't find a store that had it. By happy happenstance I wound up at a Dar Williams concert.
At the concert she and Nerissa Nields sang I Know What Kind of Love This Is, which is one of my favorite Nields tunes, and Dar mentioned that it was on the Cry, Cry, Cry album. That sold me a second time. I went and bought the CD at the merch table.
LINKS:
The official website is now gone, but there's still
Cry Cry Cry Chords, maintained by Ron Greitzer. It has chords for all the songs with guitar parts, as well as a lot of the lyrics.