This is a hard story to put into words since it’s not mine to tell, but Susan Cowsill has a way of giving you a window into the heart of what she’s lived through. Yesterday she encouraged the French Quarter Festival audience to
Happy Holidays
After a very busy Winter, Spring, and Summer touring with the Susan Cowsill Band, SCRB (Susan/Russ duo), The Cowsills, and Johnny Sansone, we settled in at home for a Fall of domestication. We may have laid low performing publicly, but we have gotten quite of bit new songs written! Vicki (Peterson Cowsill) and even managed 2 trips where we worked on our Psycho Sisters. So after more than 20 years, we are pretty damn excited and proud to announce that we will be going into Dockside Studio early next year to record our LONNNNNG awaited album!
In September, Russ and I snuck off to Austin, Tx to record an album with our other “family” band, The Hobarts (Jon Dee Graham, Freedy Johnston, Andrew Duplantis, Susan, Russ). It’s fantastic. It’s a very live record, with very few overdubs and nary a “correction.” The album has a release date set for February 28! Look for us to tour in support it around that time, and be sure not to miss us if anywhere nearby.
The real reason for this blog though is for us to express our gratitude to all of you for your support through this year. It’s not just companies like HBO who help us do what we do, but each and every one of you who came to one or more of our shows, purchased any of our music, called radio stations requesting any of our songs, or recommended us to others you know. It all adds up to…us feeling very grateful and thankful. So, in that spirit we’d like to share a couple Christmas songs of us for you to have for these holidays. Feel free to share them with anyone who you think would like either. Just click on that link there, and select download. And just in case you were recently hacked or virused, the two songs are my The World at Christmas Time,” and “The Grinch” from one of our Christmas Covered in Vinyl shows a couple/few years back at the Carrollton Station. Enjoy and have a WONDERFUL holiday filled with grace, gratitude, kindness, love, and peace.
Much love,
Susan and Russ
HBO’s Treme’ Bonus
Okay, that was fun. We had a great time at the house watching the show with some of our closest friends and all their dogs. We made more hot dogs than we needed, but most of them still got eaten. Many of our guests have not been following Treme', so it was cool to watch ...
New Just Believe It Americana Remixes have arrived
Hey y'all, the remixed version of Just Believe It has arrived and going to Louisiana Music Factory bright and early for Jazz Fest time. We'll get them loaded into our store page after the weekend, as well as on Bandcamp, Cdbaby, itunes, etc.. FYI, it's a mix that sounds akin to Lighthouse.
