Oh Susanna 又名 Suzie Ungerleider,是生于美国的加拿大人.1997年，推出了个人专集《Oh Susanna》由此闻名.此曲选自2001年的专辑《Sleepy LittleSailor》其音乐风格游走于民谣和乡村音乐之间.
Oh Susanna is the stage name of singer/songwriter Suzie Ungerleider, a Canadian alt-country performer with a taste for stark, haunting balladry that's earned her comparisons to the likes of Gillian Welch. Born in the U.S., Ungerleider moved with her family to Vancouver as a child, and grew up listening to all kinds of music (she was especially fond of the Rolling Stones). She studied history and hosted a radio show at Concordia University, which helped intensify her already burgeoning interest in American roots music, and began writing her own songs in a country-folk vein during her college years. Ungerleider's first public performance as Oh Susanna came in 1995 (by which time she was working as a library clerk), and in 1997 she recorded a self-titled, seven-song EP, releasing it on her own Stella imprint. Her dark, often morbid narratives helped her win a contest as the best unsigned act in Canada; that summer, she attracted more buzz by playing selected dates on the Lilith Fair tour, and subsequently hitting the road in Canada with like-minded artists Veda Hille and Kinnie Starr as the Scrappy Bitches Tour. Oh Susanna's first full-length album, Johnstown, was released on Square Dog in 1999, and continued to display a gothic fascination with murder ballads and the darker side of folk and country. The gentler melancholy of Sleepy Little Sailor followed in 2001 on the Catamount label, and it was supported by numerous tour dates. Two years later, Oh Susanna found herself working with Nettwerk. She polished up her folk-tinged sound for a self-titled full-length, released in September 2003.
Short stories deliver brief but indelible journeys. A single mouthful of sublime textures, or a window cracked -- fresh and sparkling images peeking through. Short Stories is also the title of Oh Susanna latest release, an intimate series of portraits and journeys that echo the haunting sound of her debut EP.
Short Stories is a dramatic and compelling collection of songs inspired by both the lives of people in Oh Susanna family and by those recorded in 20th Century American writing. It shares personal fables of heroes and antiheroes as if through the lens of a documentary film.
Short Stories will seduce new listeners and reward the returning. For those who have traveled with her from one album touchstone to the next, there is both continuity and surprise. Literary and cinematic as much as musical, Short Stories has a natural beauty that both entertains and gives the listener room to roam.
Over the last 10 years, Oh Susanna has garnered critical acclaim and loyal audiences around the world with Oh Susanna (2003), Sleepy Little Sailor (2001), Johnstown (1999), and EP (1997). She grew up a Canadian with an American passport, staring at the ocean, mountains and railroad tracks through sheets of rain. She sought refuge with song under burnt-out warehouses and in darkened clubs with the promise of guitar twang and a lonesome cry. Along the way she found inspiration in the music of the likes of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, as well as peers Jim Bryson, Sarah Harmer, Neko Case, Ron Sexsmith, Fred Eaglesmith, Eliza Gilkyson, Patti Griffin, and Iris Dement. Short Stories reunites Suzie with long time band-mates Bazil Donovan (Blue Rodeo) on bass, Cam Giroux (Weeping Tile, By Divine Right) on drums, Bob Packwood (Blue Rodeo) on piano as well as the explosive talents of Luke Doucet, Justin Rutledge and Burke Carroll.
An obvious stand out track is the epic ? You can almost see the credits roll up the screen as this track begs for inclusion on a soundtrack. Suzie抯 story about making a new start after a period of darkness is layered over a touching string arrangement by Kevin Fox.
Upon the release of Short Stories, Oh Susanna will be embarking on a cross-Canada promo tour so that she can tell you more about the album in person. She will also perform an intimate show in each of the cities that she will be visiting. More details to follow. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy Short Stories.