June 2013

Hey Friends,

Lots going on here in Hilonesome Land this late spring/early summer!

Our first music video is ready and we're really proud of the great work done by SunDog Studio on this project for our recording of Ernest Troost's song "Harlan County Boys" from our new album "White Swan." 

Watch "Harlan County Boys" on YouTube

Speaking of "White Swan" we have a great new review up on No Depression thanks to Terry Roland ~ here's an excerpt: 

"From the earthy opening fiddle strains on White Swan to the final song's sweet homage to Appalachian singer-songwriter Jean Ritchie, it's clear this is not an album to listen to once and put away.  Susie Glaze and The Hilonesome Band have made an album that is a ride through a wide range of Americana meadows and valleys. From skilled instrumentation bluegrass jams, Appalachian vocals, sweet high lonesome harmonies and old-time folk influences, White Swan sings with the richness of a tapestry of American music that weaves together each genre through  song-craft, clear production and authentic performance in such a seamless way, it feels like we're hearing just one genre; great American music...With an already considerable string of successful albums behind them, White Swan brings Susie Glaze and Hilonesome Band to a new and rare place for a band veteran traditional musicians; a breakthrough album stepping into new musical territory.  As the final track, Jean Ritchie's "The Soldier," echoes with the Appalachian fiddle and Glaze's haunting voice, it's clear this album is a rare and timeless gem and one of 2013's best Americana albums."

Find the entire review here:  No Depression Reviews "White Swan"

We Have a Pandora Channel!

We've gotten our channel on Pandora up and running!  See below news item and link over to the Pandora radio channel!  Pandora Radio for Susie Glaze & the Hilonesome Band 

Teaching at Boulevard Music!

I'm happy to announce that I've been put on the roster at Boulevard Music in Culver City as a voice instructor, teaching vocal technique for bluegrass and folk music styles in private sessions. Call Boulevard Music to schedule your voice lessons! I look forward to seeing you there! Visit Boulevard Music Online

Writing ~ New Column For FolkWorks

I've started a new column for the online music magazine Folkworks called "Singin' the Moon Up."  It'll be a bi-monthly posting about Appalachian music and often featuring reflections on my friend Jean Ritchie and her music legacy. The new column for May/June has just been published, dedicated to Jean's fine song "West Virginia Mine Disaster."

Read the Latest Column Here on Folkworks for a special announcement about a very special CD tribute project also coming soon.

Special House Concert  ~ June 1

We're thrilled to be returning to Russ & Julie's House Concert series in Oak Park on June 1 with our dear friends Jeni & Billy, the great Nashville old-time duo.  Both J&B and we have new albums to share and we hope you'll join us!  It will be a really stellar evening of roots music from the hollars and the fields.  Russ & Julie's is the premier house concert series in Southern California and we always have a blast with these great hosts!

Find the Facebook Event Here

See you at the show, and online!

~  

Susie and the Hilonesome Band

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West Virginia Mine Disaster

Hello again, Friends,

I’d like to devote a blog to the great Jean Ritchie original song “West Virginia Mine Disaster.”

I first heard Jean herself perform this song several years ago at a music festival where we were appearing together.  It is sung a ccapella, and she did so, sitting in a chair under a tent with lots of folks listening.  It was transformative for me.  The story of a woman whose husband disappears into the mines one day never to return was one that hadn’t been told quite like that ever in my experience.  And, true to Jean’s introduction of the song when she sings it, it hadn’t ever been written from that perspective before either ~ of the woman’s view of things when a tragic accident falls on a mining community. 

Jean always says that when she ever heard of a story that didn’t have a song to go with it (as was always the case when she was growing up in Eastern Kentucky), she knew she had to write one.

So this is how Jean introduces the song and it’s now what I say to audiences of my own: 

“When a mining accident occurred in the neighboring state of West Virginia, it came to my mind that all the mining disaster songs were about the places, the men’s names and the dates.  None of them told how the women felt when they had to stay home. It was taboo then for women to go into the mines and the women would often wonder what goes on when the whistle blows off time.”

Say did you see him going, it was early this morning?

He passed all your houses on the way to the coal.
He was tall, he was slender, and his dark eyes so tender,
His occupation was mining, West Virginia his home.
 
It was just before twelve, I was feeding the children.
Ben Mosely came running to give us the news;
Number eight is all flooded, many men are in danger,
And we don’t know their number, but we fear they’re all doomed.

So I picked up the baby and I left all the others

To comfort each other and pray for our own;
There’s Timmy, fourteen, and there’s John not much younger,
Their own time soon will be coming to go down the black hole.

 

 

O if I had the money to do more than just feed them,

I’d give them good learning, the best could be found,

Then when they grew up, they’d be checkers and weighers,

And not spend their time drilling in the dark underground.

 

O what can I say to his poor little children?

And what can I tell his old mother at home?

And what can I say to my heart that’s clear-broken?

To my heart that’s clear broken, if my darling is gone?

 

Say, did you see him going, it was early this morning?

He passed all your houses on the way to the coal,

He was tall, he was slender, and his dark eyes so tender,

His occupation was mining, West Virginia his home.

 

Jean’s beautiful recording of this song can be found on her 1971 album “Clear Waters Remembered.”   Clear Waters Remembered

It was also included on the marvelous soundtrack album to the PBS documentary “The Appalachians”  The Appalachians

 

 

 

Here's Jean's Track on Spotify

I was lucky and honored to perform this song for Jean herself when we worked together on our 2005 Jean Ritchie tribute show “Singin’ the Moon Up: The Voice of Jean Ritchie” at Penn State.  Later that same year I began adding West Virginia to our regular concerts with the Hilonesome Band.  Here it is from The Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena, California:

 

Susie Sings West Virginia Mine Disaster

 

Discussion of this song brings to mind the singing of a ccapella songs in the Appalachian style and tradition.  I was reminded of the power of this type of performance when seeing the Chieftains in concert recently.  Their percussionist came to the front of the stage early in their first set to sing un-accompanied, and it was powerful, pure and beautiful. 

In my research, I found that singing solo served a purpose in the country community:  it was always a time of quiet respite in the midst of noisy gatherings, and the singer would always tell a tale with his or her tune.  It was implicit that the story not be “acted out” but simply sung plainly:  heartfelt, yes, but not animatedly, as an actor would, “trying to put the song over.”  In my experience, either listening or singing, when the story is “told” this way it is more able to be vividly imaged by the listener.  The singer just simply needs to “get out of the way” and trust the song, trust its own integrity and life.  For me, it truly becomes an internal journey.  And to underline the spiritual nature of the performance, I would remind everyone that in fact, the old-time rural Baptist church didn’t allow accompaniments to their hymns, believing that God didn’t need the “decoration” for an expression from the human to the Divine. 

 

The Jean Ritchie Tribute Project

 

There’s some great news coming out of the East coast that I can let you know about! It’s the soon-to-be-announced tribute CD project to honor Jean Ritchie, produced by long-time colleagues and friends Dan Schatz, Charlie Pilzer and Mick Lane.  This CD project will be a treasure to honor Jean’s life's work and will feature new recordings of her original songs and songs from her family tradition, with all proceeds benefiting Jean as well as organizations that work against mountaintop removal.  Some wonderful and amazing artists are involved, and I eagerly await its official announcement.  I was honored and happy to be invited to sing on this project, and my recording of “West Virginia Mine Disaster” will be there. 

Please stay tuned for more news of this landmark album coming soon.

In the meantime, I send you blessings and love,

Susie

February-March Newsletter ~ Announcing the Release of "White Swan"

Announcing the Release of Susie Glaze & the Hilonesome Band's new 2013 album

"White Swan"

 

"Glaze and company have done a wonderful job of charming us in the past but now it seems like her recent vintage live set was to clear the palette before the next stage was set. A bluegrass crew that could easily stand toe to toe with Union Station, this crew has elected to widen the lens and take newgrass into the wide open mixing in Celtic, folk, roots, Americana and a full range of indigenous sounds that blend into a wonderful down home, home grown stew. Boldly powering their way down their own new cut road, if you haven't had the chance to enjoy the Glaze sound yet, this is the place to jump in to be totally blown away. This is the perfect record for anyone that's ever wondered what the big deal about roots/Americana is to find out what's what."   Chris Spector for Midwest Record

 

"Exceptional musicianship... stunning, timeless ballads... like a clear mountain stream is the pure, clear voice of Susie Glaze...this is one gorgeous album - a 'must discover.'" 
Folkworks

"I've said it before, 'new is easy different is hard' - many artists achieve the former, some the latter, few manage both. Well here's one that falls into the 'achieved both' category. Susie Glaze & The Hilonesome Band have with 'White Swan' blended unadulterated Americana folk from a mix of influences - poetic narrative, a soupcon of bluegrass, a touch of mountain-muse and pure invention to create a folk-fusion of that's both steeped in tradition and fresh as the sunrise...'White Swan' blends the inspiration of tradition with the charisma of contemporary - and does it faultlessly."

Tim Carroll, FolkWords (www.folkwords.com - UK)

"Susie Glaze & the Hilonesome Band continue to hone and refine their brand of rootsy Americana on their very appealing new album, White Swan. Alison Krauss and Union Station remain the most obvious reference point for this troupe which comprises Glaze on lead vocals, guitars and mountain dulcimer; Rob Carlson on guitar; Steve Rankin on mandolin and bouzouki; Mark Indicator on fiddle; and Fred Sanders on bass. But with White Swan, the band have broadened their bluegrass sound to encompass folky Celtic elements, and the results stand up well alongside the best of AKUS.

 

The playing throughout is supple and evocative and the choice of material is stellar, combining original (mostly penned by Carlson), traditional material and well-chosen covers. The Irish tune “Si Bheag, Si Mhor” ushers in a fine opening take on James Taylor’s “Mill Worker”; Glaze channels Joan Baez for a gripping “Fair Ellender”; Rankin takes a low-key lead on a cover of Steve Earle’s “Me and the Eagle”; and a spare, evocative reading of “The Soldier” by Jean Ritchie (about whom Glaze composed the acclaimed theatre show “Singing the Moon Up: The Voice of Jean Ritchie”) brings the album to an elegant end. The best tracks, however, are two stunning songs from the pen of Ernest Troost: the murder ballad “Evangeline”—sung from the perspective of the now-remorseful culprit—and the exceptional “Harlan County Boys” which economically traces a family history from the early 1900s to the present day. Glaze inhabits these songs with absolute conviction and subtle dramatic flair, making them the highlights of an altogether beguiling record."

 

Alex Ramon, Pop Matters, London  http://www.popmatters.com/

 

“The net has been cast wide,” says Susie Glaze of Susie Glaze & The Hilonesome Band, referring to the range of influences on their latest collaboration, “White Swan.” The West Coast quintet’s eleven-track project reflects a love for bluegrass, folk and Celtic music, with five originals written by various configurations of the band, plus well-picked covers by the likes of masters, such as Steve Earle (“Me And The Eagle”) and James Taylor (“Mill Worker”).

 

These artists have a performance chemistry that works, with tight arrangements of fiddle, mandolin, guitar and upright bass, and Glaze’s authentic Appalachian voice – by way of Southern California – is icing on their musical confection. The Ernest Troost song, “Evangeline,” allows her an opportunity to show more ache and tenderness in her confident holler style, and she sings in downright shades of Sandy Denny (Fairport Convention, Fotheringay) on the dulcimer-and-fiddle traditional English/Irish folk ballad “Fair Ellender.”

 

Glaze has a hand in penning “The Dark Eileen,” with its flowery recitation start, and her softer-side delivery glides over the Emerald Isle-inspired hills and valleys of its melody. The title track is where the band lives up to its high-lonesome moniker, and Jean Ritchie’s “The Soldier” closes out the set with a haunting Irish drone. SGTHB give listeners a fresh take on tradition."   

 

Janet Goodman, Music News Nashville

 

"If Susie Glaze were a newscaster, this crazy world would be a lot easier to take. On grisly murder ballads and carefree romps alike, the Tennesse native sings smooth and sweet, her voice like buttermilk pie. Having appeared on Broadway, Glaze has a knack for theatrics, and that serves her well on "Fair Ellender", "Evangeline" and "The Dark Eileen", the three of this album's darker narrative tunes. Relief comes in the form of "April Fools", a bubbly Appalachian bossa nova love song with giddiness to spare. Wherever Glaze goes, her band is right there with her, providig impeccable acoustic instrumentation and sometimes handling lead vocals. The presentation is as seamless as the songs are engaging." 

 

M Magazine for Musicians

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"White Swan," Susie Glaze's fifth release, is truly her most eclectic and collaborative album in over ten years of her critically-acclaimed career as a bluegrass/folk recording artist.  With this CD her Hilonesome Band has veered into the realms of new Celtic-inspired folk songs that harken back to the ballad form from the pen of lead guitarist Rob Carlson, as well as re-interpreted classic cover songs from such diverse sources as James Taylor, Steve Earle and Jean Ritchie.  Also featured are two songs from Los Angeles singer-songwriter and Kerrville New Folk Winner Ernest Troost. Arrangements and new interpretations of songs you think you knew are here for re-discovery from this gifted acoustic quintet in a lush and orchestral folk setting.

 

Susie states about this album:  "The fine players of the Hilonesome Band and I have created these tracks together and on this album you hear their voices alongside my own.  We've come a long way from the early years of our band's inception.  We reached for the sounds of bluegrass because it was the music we loved ~ we were drawn to the stories, the romance, the warnings, the humor and the tragedies.  Now we have found our sound branching out with a natural evolution ~ it came with exploring the older stories and longing for more complex music.  Rob has been inspired to capture the darkness and mysteriously tragic elements of balladry from Ireland, England and Scotland. With the integration of real historical elements along with new and deeper complexity in music, our sound has made a most interestingly subtle shift:  we've cast a wider net to discover a sound unlike anything we've done before.  What is here is a true melting pot of influences that move us, from bluegrass to country to Celtic to Appalachia, and we've found our true home in this, our new, unique sound."

 

The eclectic range takes the listener from bluegrass ("Little Rabbit") to pensive country ("Evangeline") to Bossa Nova ("April Fools") to Celtic-inspired torch song ("Dark Eileen").  The album begins with a newly-interpreted "Mill Worker," James Taylor's classic, introduced by Mark Indictor's beautiful fiddle on the traditional "Si Bheag, Si Mhor."  Indictor's fiddle is featured again on Carlson's new take on the old "Polly Vonn" story, this time as the title track "White Swan."  Jean Ritchie's little-known but powerful "The Soldier" sends a message about the costs of war on the soul.

 

The innovation of this formerly-bluegrass band is taking them to a distinctly folk-driven Americana music, the sounds that came to America with the first immigrants:  Appalachia, old-English balladry, Irish barn-burner fiddle music (the outro of "White Swan" was penned in the studio) and tender stories of family and legacy ("Harlan County Boys").

 

One great album bonus is the inclusion of a previously-recorded live onstage sound track of the classic Childe ballad, "Fair Ellender," arranged by Jean Ritchie, with Susie accompanied by Ritchie sons Peter and Jon Pickow and famed East coast fiddler, Kenny Kosek.  At this concert, the Hilonesome Band will re-interpret "Fair Ellender" in their own way with bouzouki, guitar, fiddle and bowed bass.

 

The album is now released and available for purchase on CDBaby, iTunes and Amazon.

 

Happy New Year - January 2013 Newsletter

Dear Friends,

 

Happy New Year!

 
I hope the New Year is off to a great start for everyone.  Here in Los Angeles we are laughing at ourselves at how we cannot take this cold snap ~ our friends and family in more northern climates are chuckling too, as they are used to below freezing for this time of year.  Angelenos, it seems, are mightily “put out” when the temps get below 85!

Otherwise, we’ve been lucky out here so far (knock wood) this winter.  I had a most marvelous Christmas season, with luminous Hilonesome Band shows mixed with a lot of great singing at my beloved All Saints in Pasadena.  The cool new thing was that our Christmas Eve service was streamed on the web, so friends in other parts of the country (and city) who couldn’t attend could watch and hear the whole thing on the internet.  It was great to hear from them how much they enjoyed the music and it’s great to be able to share it this new way.

Now, as I write, we are thick into the campaign to release our new album “White Swan.”  We’ve set our CD release concert at the venerable McCabe’s Guitar Shop (www.mccabes.com) for Sunday, March 3^rd and you’ll be hearing more about that below and next month.  Also, we received a nice new review on the album just a few days ago:

“Glaze and company have done a wonderful job of charming us in the past but now it seems like her recent vintage live set was to clear the palette before the next stage was set. A bluegrass crew that could easily stand toe to toe with Union Station, this crew has elected to widen the lens and take newgrass into the wide open mixing in Celtic, folk, roots, Americana and a full range of indigenous sounds that blend into a wonderful down home, home grown stew. Boldly powering their way down their own new cut road, if you haven't had the chance to enjoy the Glaze sound yet, this is the place to jump in to be totally blown away. This is the perfect record for anyone that's ever wondered what the big deal about roots/Americana is to find out what‘s what.”
Chris Spector for Midwest Record

 

And from Folkworks:
“Exceptional musicianship…stunning, timeless ballads…like a clear mountain stream is the pure, clear voice of Susie Glaze…this is one gorgeous album – a ‘must discover.’”

 

Here’s some writing from our liner notes:
 

Stories of tragedy and transcendence ~ the overpowering confrontation with one's destiny ~ the sweet pathos in losing love and growing older ~ this is the human condition that gave rise to the urge to create folk songs from the earliest ages of human history...With the introduction of new evocative writing by our Rob Carlson, integrating historical elements along with new and deeper complexity in music, our sound has made a most interestingly subtle shift: we've cast a wider net to find a sound unlike anything we've done before. What is here is a true melting pot of influences that move us, from bluegrass to country to Celtic to Appalachia, and we've found our true home in this, our new, unique sound.

 

The innovation of this formerly-bluegrass band is taking them to a distinctly folk-driven American music that contains the sounds that came to America with the first immigrants:  Appalachia, old-English balladry, Irish barn-burner fiddle music (the outro of “White Swan” which was penned in the studio) and tender stories of family and legacy (“Harlan County Boys”).

 

Lead guitarist Rob Carlson's original songwriting is again a main focus of this album with four new songs, and some of the most sophisticated folk music on the scene today.  The eclectic range takes the listener from bluegrass (“Little Rabbit”) to pensive country (“Evangeline”) to Bossa Nova (“April Fools”) to Celtic-inspired torch song (“Dark Eileen”).  The album begins with a newly-interpreted “Mill Worker,” James Taylor’s classic, introduced by Mark Indictor’s beautiful fiddle on the traditional “Si Bheag, Si Mhor.”  Indictor’s fiddle is featured again on Carlson’s new take on the old “Polly Vonn” story, this time as the title track “White Swan.”  Jean Ritchie’s little-known but powerful “The Soldier” sends a message about the costs of war on the soul.

 

Also included is a recording originally appearing on Susie's "Singin' The Moon Up" Jean Ritchie tribute, the great "Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender (here as "Fair Ellender"), one of the most well-known of the original "Child Ballads" developed by Ritchie. Susie on the haunting lead vocal is joined by Ritchie sons Peter and Jon Pickow, and famed East coast fiddler, Kenny Kosek.

 

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The album is now out for pre-release review and will be posted for sale on line after the official release date, March 19^th.  I’ll make sure to let you know when it’s out there!  Until then, if you’re in the area, please come out to a show and pick up a copy from us!  We’ve made commemorative posters of the album art which we’ll have signed and available for collecting also.  The album cover is getting a lot of nice attention ~ our graphic artist Anita Atencio again did a magical job on our package design.

We’ve got nice things going on during January and February, so please read below.  We hope to see you at a show and please stay tuned for more news of “White Swan.”

 

Susie and the Hilonesome Band

Steve Rankin, Mark Indictor, Rob Carlson and Fred Sanders 

 

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Friday, January 18, Camarillo Café Concert Series

Camarillo Community Center, 1605 East Burnley Street

Camarillo, CA  93010. 8:00 p.m. show.  $10.00

www.camarillocafe.com. Contact Phone:  805.907.8318
or email: WhatsHappening@CamarilloCafe.com

Saturday, January 26 NAMM show

12 noon show at the Shubb Capo booth

Anaheim Convention Center
http://www.namm.org/

Saturday, February 2, David Harvey Presents

At the Cahuenga General Store, 5510 Cahuenga Blvd, North Hollywood, CA  91601
Call for more info: 818-985-5916.  An intimate venue furnished as an early 1900's General Store with great homemade food (all ages welcome!). http://cahuengageneralstore.com.s121086.gridserver.com
Show at 7:30, $10 cover charge.  http://cityofangelsacoustic.weebly.com/  

Saturday, February 16, West Valley Music Center

With Ernest Troost.  24424 Vanowen Street, West Hills, CA 91307.  8:00 p.m. Call for info:  818.992.4142 and visit http://www.westvalleymusiccenter.com/acoustic-music-series.html

Sunday, February 24, KCSN

Live performance on Americana Matinee with Kat Griffin.  http://www.kcsn.org/programs/americana-matinee/

Sunday, March 3 “White Swan” CD Release Concert

McCabe’s Guitar Shop, 3101 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405.  7:00 p.m.  $15.00.  Call for information: (310) 828-4497.  Find more info at http://www.mccabes.com/ and order tickets on line at http://www.mccabes.com/condata.html.  Tickets can be purchased either at the store, through the online store or by phone with your credit card at (310) 828-4497.

Fate Gave the Word ~ White Swan is Coming!

 

"Fate gave the word, the arrow sped, and pierced my darling's heart….and with him all the joys have fled
life can to me impart…"

"White Swan" Is on the Way!

Dear Friends,

I'm thrilled to be working on our new album even as I write, tentatively titled "White Swan." Below are some notes on the production that will give you an idea of what's coming. I hope you'll read and be intrigued!  

Stories of tragedy and transcendence ~ the overpowering confrontation with one's destiny ~ the sweet pathos in losing love and growing older ~ this is the human condition that gave rise to the urge to create folk songs from the earliest ages of human history.

This is the most truly collaborative work I've ever released. The fine players of the Hilonesome Band and I have created these songs together and on this album you hear their voices alongside my own.

The band was just absolutely amazing in the studio. I felt so thrillingly happy as I stood in the vocal booth and sang and played the songs we’ve perfected over the last year and a half. I looked around to see if anybody was just noticing how great everything sounded!

Excitingly, we developed Ernest Troost’s “Harlan County Boys” at the last minute when we realized we needed another song to fill out the album. Luckily, Steve and Rob and I had worked on the song in late July and had a great arrangement all ready with a demo to practice with and charts. So we got that song together in just a couple of hours and to me that is the mark of a great band, the ability to pull out a great performance in a short time because of technical skill and collaborative bonding. I’m so excited by the outcome. I think this song of Ernest’s is, like all his work, profound, poetic and beautiful.

This album is a real milestone for our band, marking an evolution that has had a long coming of age. Our growth and evolution has made me look back to sum up this now almost ten year journey. We've come a long way from the early years of our band's inception. Our first album "Blue Eyed Darlin'" released in 2005 introduced us to the world via the songwriting of our lead guitarist, Rob Carlson. We reached for the sounds of bluegrass because it was the music we loved ~ we were drawn to the stories, the romance, the warnings, the humor and the tragedies. With the introduction of new evocative writing by Rob, integrating historical elements along with new and deeper complexity in music, our sound has made a most interestingly subtle shift: we've cast a wider net to find a sound unlike anything we've done before. What is here is a true melting pot of influences that move us, from bluegrass to country to Celtic to Appalachia, and we've found our true home in this, our new, unique sound.

Lead guitarist Rob Carlson's original songwriting is again a main focus of this album with four new songs, and some of the most sophisticated folk music on the scene today. Songs of tragedy at the hands of violence and mistaken identity, as well as lighthearted musings on love and growing older make up an eclectic and tunefully lovely mix. Also featured are songs from two other Los Angeles songwriters: Ernest Troost's great "Evangeline," and "Harlan County Boy," and Fur Dixon in collaboration with Rob on "Little Rabbit." As on earlier albums, the work of the great Jean Ritchie is present, with the profoundly moving "The Soldier." Fred Sanders makes his songwriting debut with the Hilonesome Band on his original song of family, "Rockin' in Your Grand Daddys' Chair," and Steve Rankin is the fine and expressive lead on Steve Earle's poetic "Me and the Eagle." James Taylor's great anthem "Mill Worker" opens the album as a tribute to all working women everywhere. Also included is a recording originally appearing on Susie's "Singin' The Moon Up" Jean Ritchie tribute, the great "Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender (here as "Fair Ellender"), one of the most well-known of the original "Child Ballads" developed by Ritchie. Susie on the haunting lead vocal is joined by Ritchie sons Peter and Jon Pickow, and famed East coast fiddler, Kenny Kosek.

We are indebted once again to our fine friend and collaborator Rick Cunha who has done a masterful job of engineering for this record. Rick has been working with us and for us since the early days of the Eight Hand String Band in 2000 for their record “Simple Truth.” He’s since engineered our albums “Home On the Hill,” “Blue Eyed Darlin’”, “Green Kentucky Blues” and also handled file transcription and mastering on our live stage soundtrack of “Singin’ The Moon Up: the Voice of Jean Ritchie.” We love Rick and love working with him at his cozy and beautiful studio, the Rainbow Garage in Los Angeles.

Below is our upcoming show schedule through this year ~ we are especially gratified with the FolkScene broadcast coming up on October 28th. Tune in online at KPFK's Streaming Online and stream the show from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. We're also looking forward to welcoming our friends Houston Jones to Southern California during the first part of November for two shows with us. Check that out below and make plans to join us and hear this very fine and rocking Northern California band! These should be two really awesome shows!

Until next time, please visit us on Our Facebook Page and Our Home Website. Come on out to a show, bring friends and come say hey!   

We all send you love and blessings, 

Susie and the Hilonesome Band
Steve Rankin, Mark Indictor, Rob Carlson and Fred Sanders

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Susie Glaze & The Hilonesome Band has appeared at the Hollywood Bowl, The Broad Stage, CalTech Folk Society, The Freight & Salvage Coffee House, WFMT'S "Folkstage " with Rich Warren, Grass Valley Bluegrass Festival, San Francisco Bluegrass & Old Time Festival, Don Quixote's International Music Hall, FolkScene with Howard and Roz Larman, McCabe's Guitar Shop, Skirball Cultural Center and California Traditional Music Society among many others.

This is the best in lush newgrass Americana folk roots fusion, gorgeous eclectic blends of mountain folk and exciting new bluegrass and Celtic-inspired originals, all with the remarkable voice of Susie Glaze. 
"…one of the most beautiful voices in bluegrass and folk music today." KPFK's FolkScene
"...with people like this to trust, my music will go on living, and soaring. And so will I." Jean Ritchie

 
OCTOBER-DECEMBER SHOW SCHEDULE

Sunday, October 28th "FolkScene" Broadcast on KPFK 90.7 Pacific Radio. 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Stream it live on www.kpfk.org www.folkscene.com

Friday, November 2, Coffee Gallery Backstage (with Houston Jones)
2029 North Lake Blvd., Altadena, CA 91001. Showtime: 7:00 p.m. Call for reservations: (626) 798-6236 Visit the website for more information at www.coffeegallery.com

Saturday, November 3, Boulevard Music (with Houston Jones)
4316 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230. Show time at 8:00 p.m. Call for reservations: (310) 398-2583 and visit www.boulevardmusic.com for more information.

Saturday, December 1, CTMS Benefit 7:30 pm concert.
16953 Ventura Blvd, Encino 91316. 7:30 show time. Other artists include Fur Dixon, Ross Altman and Tom Corbett.

Saturday, December 8, Hemet Public Library ~ Music at the Library.
300 East Latham, Hemet, CA 92543. 2:00-3:00 p.m.

Saturday, December 8, Noble House Concerts
Sherman Oaks, CA. Website:  http://www.jrp-graphics.com/noblehouse/
8:00 p.m. show. Email our host, Barbara Greenspan at: barb@noblehouseconcerts.com or call (818) 780-5979 (Directions given upon RSVP).

Saturday, December 15, FolkWorks Concert at the Santa Monica History Museum
1350 7th Street Santa Monica, CA 90401 (310) 395-2290, Doors open at 7:00 pm, Concert starts at 8:00 pm. Tickets $15.00. Visit www.folkworks.org

Hot, Hot, Hot! August News!

August 3, 2012



Dear Friends,



The band and I had been planning for a rather slow July until the phone rang one wonderful afternoon in late June and it was McCabe's Guitar Shop offering us a show there on July 15. We excitedly kicked into high gear and ended up with a sell-out crowd and one of the finest nights we've ever had on stage. It was great to reconnect with a lot of our Los Angeles friends who hadn't seen the band in awhile and show them our new stuff! Big thanks go to Wayne Griffiths in the sound booth for giving us the best sound support we've ever had, and Lincoln Myerson at McCabe's for inviting us to play. It was an awesome night! Here are some photos from Cam Sanders Photography, and videos are on the way. We were asked back on the spot and will premier our new CD "White Swan" at a CD release concert there in March 2013.

Mark Indictor

Some audience comments:

"I can’t say enough how much I enjoyed the show, your sets, your selections and the SOUND! I came for the Sound and you guys and the mixer did not disappoint. Your voice and the band, not[e] for note, just rang effortlessly thru that hall. Everyone member of your crew had many moments to shine, but I always leave your shows with your voice in my ear. What a room. Your warmth and the room are a distinct match."

"...It was awesome. And what a great crowd you had. The place was packed...Again, what a great show. You were great and the band was just wonderful."



Lisa Burns

We have an amazing August coming up: first we welcome the great Lisa Burns on bass to our ensemble for a Northern California mini-tour the second weekend as we return to a favorite, the Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival in Tres Pinos, California near San Jose. Later in the month we return to Brad Colerick's fine songwriter series at the Firefly in South Pasadena and that weekend the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena. We're also starting on (drumroll!) at last! our NEW ALBUM "White Swan" working again with our dear friend Rick Cunha as engineer. We're all looking forward to returning to the beautiful and comfy Rainbow Garage here in Los Angeles.

We also get to stop in to record a show for Roz Larman's Folk Scene on KPFK here in Los Angeles mid-month. We'll keep you posted about when the show will be broadcast and available for online listening.

Until next month, please visit us on Our Facebook Page and Our Website! Come on out to a show and bring your friends! We all send you love and blessings,


Susie and the Hilonesome Boys

Susie Glaze & The Hilonesome Band returns to the Bay Area in August!

Thursday, August 9, Redwood City Downtown Library
Susie Glaze & The Hilonesome Duo (with Steve Rankin), performing old-time and Appalachian balladry and the story songs of Jean Ritchie. 7:00 p.m. 1044 Middlefield Rd, Redwood City, CA 94063. Contact: 650/780-7058


Friday, August 10, The Ugly Mug
4640 Soquel Drive, Soquel, CA 95073. 7:30 p.m. show. Tickets $15.00. Reservations can be made by calling 831-475-4938 or email Brundle@attglobal.net. Joined by Lisa Burns on bass.  Produced by Fiddling Cricket Concerts   Also visit The Ugly Mug Website


Saturday, August 11, Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival
The Northern California Bluegrass Society presents the Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival, featuring three days of California bands on the main stage. Bolado Park, just south of Hollister, CA. Our stage time is 8:00 p.m. Joined by Lisa Burns on bass. For more information visit: Good Old Fashioned Bluegrass Festival Website


Back in Los Angeles.....

Wednesday, August 15, Wine and Song Songwriter's Series
Hosted by Brad Colerick every Wednesday evening at Firefly Bistro in South Pasadena, the series features two accomplished songwriters each week. Also special guest performances and some wonderful wine and menu selections. Firefly is located at 1009 El Centro Street and the shows begin at 7:00 pm and wrap up around 9:30 pm. Free!  Wine and Song Website and Firefly Bistro Website

Saturday, August 18, Coffee Gallery Backstage
2029 North Lake Blvd., Altadena, CA 91001. Showtime: 7:00 p.m. Tickets $20.00. Reserve Now - This room fills up fast! Call for reservations: (626) 798-6236 Visit the website for more information at Coffee Gallery Website



And on the horizon….


Tuesday, September 4, Live on "The Roadtunes Sessions" with Andy Doerr on KCSB 91.9 FM. Santa Barbara, CA 93107-3401 www.kcsb.org 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.


Saturday, September 8, Song Tree Concert Series
The Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 820 N. Fairview Avenue, Goleta, California 93117. 7:30 p.m. Songtree Concert Series Website

At McCabe's Famous Hallway of Stars! Photo by Cam Sanders Photography

McCabe's Show Reflections

Our show at McCabe's on July 15 was a huge success!  Big thanks go to Wayne Griffiths in the sound booth for giving us the best sound support we've EVER had, and Lincoln Myerson at McCabe's for inviting us to play.  It was an awesome night!  Here are some photos from Cam Sanders Photography, and videos are on the way!  We were asked back on the spot and will premier our new CD "White Swan" at a CD release concert there in March 2013!  Yay!

Audience Comments: 
"I can’t say enough how much I enjoyed the show, your sets, your selections and the SOUND!  I came for the Sound and you guys and the mixer did not disappoint.  Your voice and the band, not[e] for note, just rang effortlessly thru that hall.  Everyone member of your crew had many moments to shine, but I always leave your shows with your voice in my ear.  What a room.  Your warmth and the room are a distinct match."

"...It was awesome.  And what a great crowd you had.  The place was packed...Again,  what a great show.  You were great and the band was just wonderful."