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"The DISCovery Award goes to Suzanna Spring for a CD that's 'country' in all the right places. Somewhere over there in the arrow-of-truth zone of Emmylou Harris, she has an eye-opening vocal honesty....Somebody give this lady a deal."
-ROBERT K. OERMANN, Music Row Magazine
"Every track here is a winner, starting with SHE'S GOT YOUR HEART, a rural portrait of romantic entanglement that sets the tone for an album full of keen insights about universal relationship issues. If you only buy one album this year, make it this one."
-Alan Cackett, Maverick Magazine
"I shouldn't fall in love with singers like Suzanna Spring...but I did--nice voice, cool arrangements, warm lyrics, open fire kinda songs..."
-EVERT WILBRINK, Corazong
"I've always been drawn to outsiders," says this classically trained musician and artist who grew up on both coasts, many parts in between, and now calls Nashville home. Discovering Emmylou Harris and Tom Petty, later finding the music of Steve Earle, Townes Van Zandt and Lucinda Williams, inspired a writer whose poetry, melodies and haunting vocals seem to embody longing and the quest for home.
After graduating from art school, Suzanna joined The Mustangs, a southern California country/rock band with a will to tour. Suzanna worked with the group as lead singer/songwriter, playing the western United States, Europe and Scandinavia, including gigs at The Powerhaus in London, the famed Roskilde Festival in Denmark, and the International Country Music Festival in Zurich. Nominated by the California Country Music Association as "Vocal Group of the Year," The Mustangs were featured performers at the Jimmy Dale Gilmore & Friends Show in Austin, sharing the stage with Texas artists Lucinda Williams, Joe Ely, and Butch Hancock...a roots rock dream come true.
Beginning a long-distance writing relationship with The Music City in 1996, Suzanna worked as a staff writer first for EMI, then for Bluewater Music, home to country/roots artists Kim Richey, Jim Lauderdale, and Chris Knight. Suzanna's first solo CD effort received Music Row's DISCovery Award and outstanding reviews, drawing comparisons to kindred spirits Emmylou Harris and Patty Griffin. From the romping Kostas co-write "Who Knows" to the alcohol-soaked lament of "A Fair Wind", truth is king, and the vocals shimmer. Longtime duet partner Cary Beare, formerly of EPIC artists The Riverdogs, is featured on the record, as well as Pinmonkey's Rick Schell.
2002 and 2003 found Suzanna writing and recording at Sound Emporium Studios in Nashville with Scott Paschall producing. The resulting album, "She's Got Your Heart", received great reviews, including a rave from UK music magazine Maverick. The title track, a valentine to California, is a radio standout, as is "The Other Side of This Love", beautifully written and sung with Texas troubadour Walt Wlkins. But it's the sparse "Dancing on the Moon" and the hidden track "Seven Summers", that are most revealing.
Recent performances include WPLN's Songwriter Sessions, NPR's Nashville Folk Festival radio program, concerts in Austin, Boston and New York, Channel 5's "Words and Music" program, Tin Pan South, and performances for Nashville Independent Music network. A member of the Legislative committee for Nashville Songwriters Association, Suzanna visited Washington, DC during 2007 on behalf of writers issues and performed May 22, 2007 on Capitol Hill for the US House of Representatives and the US Senate. Suzanna's song "Time" was a recent single for country recording artist Doug Stone. Suzanna recently relocated to San Francisco, where she is composing music for film. Playing with Bay area band The Front Porch, Suzanna headlined a benefit in October 2008 for California filmmaker Michealene Cristini Risley's "Tapestries of Hope."
© 2009 Suzanna Spring
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