Labek's new release "What A Woman Knows" is filled with poignant titles. She chose songs for her third CD that feature lyrics most women can relate to. Cover titles like Sting's "Fragile," Doc Pomus' and Dr. John's "A World I Never Made," and originals that include "Life Is A Gift," "Trouble Blues," and "Love Provides" are interpreted from a particularly feminine point of view. The musical excellence of award-winning musicians on three different sessions (Latin, Blues and Acoustic) provide the listener a unique variety to savor. Arrangements by Jack Perricone enhance Labek's interpretations that are rich both in wisdom and musicality…

A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government. Eiko and Omoi are jailed because of a fire at a factory instigated by Chiyo, a servant girl from Eiko's home in Okayama, who was sold to slavery. A few years later the 1889 constitution is proclaimed, Eiko, Omoi, and Chiyo are pardoned, and the Liberal Party is reinaugurated. However Omoi does not campaign for women's rights.