Purchase Susan’s song BE THE CHANGE in choral arrangement! Purchase includes right to print reproductions (up to 50 copies, none for re-sale) and to record and sell a recording of the song and arrangement.
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- Be the Change TTBB Choral Arrangement
Here’s a performance of the song in TTBB arrangement by Perfect Harmony Chorus, Madison WI
Download Susan Werner’s full catalog of albums, plus bonus tracks (demos and unreleased songs), and live concert video footage with one click! Delivered as Mp3s
Includes the following:
- ALBUMS
- 1993 – Live at Tin Angel
- 1993 – Midwestern Saturday Night
- 1995 – Last of the Good Straight Girls
- 1998 – Time Between Trains
- 2001 – New Non-Fiction
- 2004 – I Can’t Be New
- 2007 – The Gospel Truth
- 2008 – Live at Passim
- 2009 – Classics
- 2010 – Kicking the Beehive
- 2011 – Live at the Center for the Arts in Natick
- 2013 – Hayseed
- 2017 – An American in Havana
- 2017 – Eight Unnecessary Songs
- 2019 – NOLA
- 2020 – Flyover Country (for downloads after Sept 27, 2020)
- 2022 – The Birds of Florida (for downloads after Jan 8, 2022)
- 2024 – Halfway to Houston (for downloads after Apr 13, 2024)
- VIDEOS
- All Mapped Out (live concert & tour footage)
- 1955 Chevy Bel Air (official music video)
- Live at Stone Mountain (concert footage)
- Free Your A** (official music video)
- EXTRAS
- Unreleased songs
- Demos
- & more
And I know some of you are thinking, “You did a record about Texas? WHY?”
I’d like to remind you of a few things: Chili. Ruby Red Grapefruit. The Johnson Space Center. Molly Ivins. Patrick Swayze. Dell Computers (even though I’m an Apple devotee). Beyonce. Buddy Holly. Janis Joplin. Willie Nelson.
Yes, OF COURSE Texas’ government is terrible. You think I’d overlook all that? Check out Welcome To Texas! written with Southpaw Jones, and Tiny Texans written with Sara Hickman.
But you’ll find plenty of love in these songs, too, in Lake of Stars and Corpus and Jalapeno Cornbread. You’ll hear great Philly musicians working their magic on this record along with guests from Austin (Tish Hinojosa and Chip Dolan).
So yeah, sure, the record’s “about Texas.” But maybe think of it as one artist’s view of life, seen through the lens of the Lone Star State.
Give it a listen, and even if you’re up in Minneapolis or over in Atlanta or out in L.A. you might suddenly find your imagination rolling down the interstate and halfway to Houston.
Panthers iguanas and flamingoes meet up with dobros, bongos and marimbas on songwriter Susan Werner’s colorful new EP The Birds Of Florida.
“I wound up riding out the winter of the pandemic in Siesta Key near Sarasota,” Werner says, “And despite my best efforts to relax, I somehow left with an album.”
Produced by drummer Erik Johnson (Huffamoose), the lush arrangements feature Gulf and Western sounds ranging from rumba to reggae to bolero ballads to Bakersfield twang. Werner’s signature sharp lyrics capture the beauty and strangeness of the Sunshine State – from the playful lead track “Florida La La La” to the beach stroll of a love song “I Could Get Used To This” to the heartfelt and poetic “The Birds of Florida.”
“I was not looking for songs in Florida,” Werner says. “I was just trying to get through a really, really long winter, like everybody else. But the tunes started landing, like, well, birds. From a talking Blue Macaw on a man’s shoulder in Key West, to a radio report about cold-stunned iguanas falling from tree branches, to a silver haired Siesta Key neighbor who uncannily resembled an ibis, birds and flying things began appearing everywhere, including in my songs. After a while I stopped chasing them off, and I’m glad I did. Because with these songs, this recording, I might have accidentally made a good case for the Sunshine State.”
This studio recording (release date Sept 27, 2020) features 10 Werner originals in a nod to the songforms and sounds of Americana and Country. Features lapsteel wizard Mike “Slomo” Brenner, pedal steel master Jim Cohen, a co-write with John Gorka (Wine Bottles) and Susan’s signature lyrical poetry and wit.
NOW what has she gone and done?
For Susan Werner fans awaiting another of her unique concept albums, it’s here, and this time it’s NOLA – yup, New Orleans. Based on the piano stylings of Professor Longhair and Dr. John, Susan has written nine new tunes and tossed in a new take on an old classic. Just in time for Mardi Gras 2019!
Recorded in New Orleans and Philadelphia. Produced by Erik Johnson, High Hill Studios, Philadelphia.
Chicago musician Susan Werner wrote the six songs of “An American In Havana” during her travels to Cuba in 2015 and 2016, and the recording features her trademark wry, poetic lyrics set to Cuban sounds and songforms. Produced with Venezuelan drummer Pablo Bencid (who plays timbales and drums) and featuring Cuban American percussionist Mayra Casales, the EP is a vivid, colorful mural of the delights (riding in a vintage American car along Havana’s Malecon), the beauty and scarcity (detailed in the lead track) and the obsession with coffee (Cortadito) that are part of every American’s introduction to the island.
