Susan's
Room, Room #5 (Zanna Discs 2000)- Former Berkeley
hippie Susan Streitwieser now lives in Los Angeles, where she records
and plays with her husband-guitarist, Tom
Manche. Now on her fifth album (entitled Room
#5), Susan and Tom deliver folk rock, with a sense of angst and
alienation.
The band on Room #5 includes Susan and Tom, joined by
friends Albe Bonacci on drums and percussion and Ritt
Henn on bass.
Don't
be fooled by the gentle appearance - Susan walks with a knife in her hand
on songs like "Can I Still Say Yes?" While I'm not sure what Susan means
when she sings about being the "Lawn Mower Man," there's a definite tension.
And who can resist a cover of Joe
Jackson's knife-in-your-back break up song, "Be My Number Two" (the
only cover on this 14-track collection).
Susan's
press kit says her songs are "everything from sad to sweet to wild to
beautiful, and sometimes all of the above."
For more information about this explicit combo, contact:
Zanna Discs
P.O. Box 691504
Los Angeles, CA 90069
Phone 1-800-Susan-Is
www.susansroom.com
EMail susansroom@aol.com
- Randy Krbechek ©
2001
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