I moved to Bend over a year ago, but with the Omicron variant raging last winter and my father's passing last February it feels like I'm just getting started. I've been writing songs for a new album I'll record in 2023. Meanwhile I'd better learn to cross-country ski since it started snowing here on Halloween and is still at it.
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Songs to Make You Cry Then Lift You Back Up
I was listening to David Wilcox' incredible song "Chet Baker's Unsung Swan Song" and it inspired me to create a new Spotify playlist. I filled it with one bummer song each from some of the greats: Joni, David Wilcox, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Rickie Lee Jones, Sam Cooke, Shawn Colvin, John Hiatt--and also more recent wonderful singer/songwriters like Jason Isbell, Kris Delmhorst, Becky Warren, and Corrine Bailey Rae. The last three songs are more hopeful but who knows, they might make you cry too:
Songs to Make You Cry Then Lift You Back Up: a playlist by Susan Anders
New Album 13 Women is Taking Shape
My next album has a concept, a title, an album cover, and thirteen songs about women from US history I've started to record. More details are here.
A Couple of Fun Gigs
I had a wonderful couple of shows in Nashville and Berkeley in June. Thank you to J. Poet for my preview and picture in the East Bay Express before my show at the venerable Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, here's a tidbit: "Loop de Loop is marked by subtle, passionate lead vocals and lush, multi-layered harmonies." My 91 year old father was in attendance, making the show even more special. To my shock he liked one of my new songs, an acoustic-funk one called Spell, the best. He liked the beat! Video from both shows is coming soon.
Now I'm settling in to complete and record songs for my next album, songs inspired by women from US history.
Singing with Scott Ramminger
I had a blast singing backup at Scott Ramminger's Bourbon Street show last week in Nashville. His very cool album "Do What Your Heart Says To" is currently number 1 on the Roots Music Report R&B Album Chart. Check it out!
Wailing at my Nashville CD Release Show
That's the formidable Mary Bragg, Phoebe Elliot, and Sarah Aili wailing along with me at my October 15th show. I threw them some complicated harmonies to learn and they sang them right back and then some.Loop de Loop is Here
Loop de Loop Pre-Release Tour in August
We're in the final stages of mixing Loop de Loop--phew! In August we'll make it available via this site only, and we'll have CDs when we play some shows in California. This recording process has been a joy, but I'm looking forward to getting out of the studio and re-entering the world again.
Loop de Loop is Coming
April 2016: All this month and last singers came in to record backing tracks. Now Tom Manche and I are at the tail end of doing the vocal arrangements for the new CD Loop de Loop. Next up: more guitars. Hope to finish it this summer!