Home On The Hill by Susie Glaze

And, she's a communicator, to me the most important of qualities in a singer. More personally, listening now to Susie singing out on my family's 'Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies,' the thought strikes me...how wonderful to hear this new voice taking up my songs...quite suddenly I know that, with people like this to trust, my music will go on living, and soaring. And so will I."

-- Jean Ritchie

"I especially liked the Jean Ritchie songs.....You captured the lonesome sweetness of her voice and delivery."

-- Laurie Lewis

Rounder Recording Artist

"Heavenly music sung with an ethereal voice."

-- Michael Fleming

New West Music Recording Artist

"She has the gift of telling a story through music with a voice as clear and fresh as a spring morning."

-- Terri Anderson, Curator

Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum

"One of the pleasures of 'Home On The Hill' is the facility with which Susie Glaze changes musical lanes...From mountain ballad to swing to tex-mex, the program honestly reflects Susie's personality - invitingly homey and graceful...from a personal point of view, this is the kind of voice and material I as a fiddler love to accompany. 'Brightest and Best,' the duet of voice and droney fiddle...was one of those shining one-take moments that emotionally sustain studio musicians through harsh long months of decongestant jingles."

-- Kenny Kosek

Rounder Recording Artist

About Susie Glaze:

A native Tennessean, Susie grew up in the shadow of the Grand Ole Opry, learning the craft of country and bluegrass from a short distance, by regular immersion of Flatt & Scruggs, Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn among others. When just 16 she sang for her brother Rick's writer's nights song showcases in Nashville. Her study of the song styling of Emmylou Harris and Linda Rondstadt carried her into college years while becoming involved in musical theatre. Finally in New York, while appearing as a featured performer on Broadway in Roger Miller's musical play "Big River", there was a Bluegrass conversion! Susie began to research the works of those artists who developed country and bluegrass from the 1920s through the '40s and '50s -- musicians such as the Blue Sky Boys, the Delmore Brothers, Bill Monroe, the Carter Family, the Stanley Brothers, Doc Watson and Jean Ritchie. This music became the focus of her work, study and performances.

Now based in Los Angeles, Susie is appearing with the Eight Hand String Band, performing songs by Iris Dement, Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, Johnny Cash, A.P. Carter, Bill Monroe, the Blue Sky Boys, Kate Long, Jean Ritchie and traditional and ancient bluegrass standards. The band's 2000 album "Simple Truth" marked Susie's debut as a recording artist, and now with "Home On The Hill" she can share her solo work in new ways, especially with her reinterpretations of classic Jean Ritchie material from the canon of her collected mountain ballads and old-world folk tunes. On this recording Susie is ably joined by her great guest artists Kenny Kosek (of "Country Cookin'" fame, on fiddle), Bob Applebaum (Bela Fleck recording artist, on mandolin), Rick Cunha (founding member of Hearts and Flowers, on steel guitar), John "Juke" Logan (formerly of The New Grass Revival, on harmonica), Mike Witcher (young "phenom" of The Witcher Brothers Band, on resonator guitar), Dan Sankey (of The Silverado Bluegrass Band, on banjo) and Mariachi Voz de America.

Susie was the winner of the Los Angeles 1999 Topanga Banjo and Fiddle Contest and Folk Festival for Traditional Singing.

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