From: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org (believers-digest) To: believers-digest@smoe.org Subject: believers-digest V11 #32 Reply-To: believers@smoe.org Sender: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-believers-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk believers-digest Friday, March 23 2007 Volume 11 : Number 032 In Today's believer's digest: ----------------- New CD [capitoltee@comcast.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:16:57 +0000 From: capitoltee@comcast.net Subject: New CD Been listening to the new CD non-stop. Been trying to put my finger on what's different about it, to me. What it's saying to me vs. all the other ones. I think I've finally figured it out. To me, Susan has always been a solo voice. She seldom uses background vocals. I know she HAS, and I know they're THERE, but they're not there very often. And maybe it's just that I don't hear them. To me, to my ears anyway, it's her voice that shines and dominates. As far as I can recall, 'I Can't Be New' has exactly one song with BG vocals, and it's all Susan anyway, dubbed ("Philanthropy"). The rest is JUST her voice and the band. 'Live at Tin Angel' is even more clearly all Susan. And even the other CD's, studio-produced, with full bands, seldom feature additional vocals. On this recording, there ARE background vocals, very prominent background vocals, on a LOT of the songs. And they are SO powerful, and perfectly suited. And sometimes Susan even takes a backseat to them. And that's what the difference is - not only that she has done somewhat of a vocal about-face, but that I don't even mind! :-) Up till now, for me, the songs took her voice to make them what they were. They were a package deal - I could see her scrunching up her face on certain lyrics, I could see her sitting at the piano, I would wait at every concert to see how she would tweak this line or lyric.... there was nobody who could do the songs justice like Susan - for me, the songs needed her to complete them. But on this project, I get the sense that Susan is the vessel thru which the message is travelling. That these songs are bigger than her. These songs are universal. They express perfectly the doubts and fears and hopes and dreams that anyone experiences on their own walk of faith. Any way you say it or play it, we are so blessed that she chooses to share her talent with us! I will tell all after the 4/1 Ark show. Looking forward to hearing about Barbie, st HELP! owner-believers@smoe.org Send mail to believers@smoe.org Susan's CD's are available on your desktop at World Cafe CDs http://worldcafecds.com ------------------------------ End of believers-digest V11 #32 ******************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------- -------------------------- This has been a posting from the Susan Werner believers-digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe believers-digest" in the body of the message