Artist Bio
Influences: Joni Mitchell, Gregory Alan Isakov, Nick Drake, Sara Barielles, Taylor Swift, James Taylor, Lisa Hannigan, Ben Howard, Iron and Wine, Lucy Dacas, Madison Cunningham, Lennon Stella, Jacob Collier, Bon Iver, Lord Huron, Sarah Jarosz
I am back for year 3! I write on guitar and piano. I am primarily a finger style player and love playing in different tunings. I also love collaborating, both by turning your lyrics into songs, or by creating lyrics and a melody for your instrumental track. One of the very best parts of FAWM for me :) The second best part of FAWM is getting to listen to so much wonderful music and seeing such creativity! I love to listen and to comment, and am inspired by all of you.
Songs (17)
| #1 | A Hundred Days |
28 Feb 2022 |
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| #2 | The Bench @monty |
16 Feb 2022 |
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| #3 | More Than Enough @bobskyyoung |
10 Feb 2022 |
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| #4 | It's Over |
13 Feb 2022 |
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| #5 | It's About Time @daveyboy103 |
13 Feb 2022 |
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| #6 | Sing, Sing, Sing |
14 Feb 2022 |
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| #7 | Maybe It's You |
12 Feb 2022 |
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| #8 |  My Man Of Few Words @greengrassgirl
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13 Feb 2022 |
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| #9 | Same Ol' Song @acousticmaddie |
10 Feb 2022 |
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| #10 | A Tiny Crack |
14 Feb 2022 |
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| #11 | MAD |
16 Feb 2022 |
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| #12 | Thief @n24
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16 Feb 2022 |
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| #13 | Our Song |
11 Feb 2022 |
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| #14 | Without You |
11 Feb 2022 |
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| #15 | It's About Time (with Words) @daveyboy103 |
7 Feb 2022 |
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| #16 | The Window |
18 Feb 2022 |
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| #17 | The Reason You Breathe @crisp1 |
9 Feb 2022 |
Soundboard
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@greengrassgirl Mar 2022
@sheslin Thank you so much for your specific comments on what you liked about Ghost of a Chance. I agree that @Gwyn really did a fabulous job. I write the lyrics and voila! He comes up with all the rest and I am always delighted! Thank you for your comments on our collab.
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@oswlek Mar 2022
Thank you very much for giving Tiny Grass and Together a spin and for leaving such generous, detailed comments, Susan. I appreciate it. :)
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@wolfkier Mar 2022
Thanks for the visits and kind words, I want to respect your stated #tit4tat limit, (3) but feel free to continue on with our excanges with wild disabandon whenever you choose. :)
If I don't see you/hear you sooner, I'm hoping we cross paths during 5090! And I wish you happy tit4tatting ahead! -
@nancycunning Mar 2022
Susan - thanks so much for your thoughtful responses to Demolition Expert and Someone Forgot to Tell Me. I love how clearly you see into the lyrics. I’m enjoying listening to your songs and look forward to hearing the rest. I’d love to have you work some of your magic on one of my lyrics some day - at FAWM ‘23 or 50/90 unless your still in business this month.
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@stephenwordsmith Mar 2022
Thank you for your kind comment, and indeed the compliment - there will be a spot for you on my dance card next FAWM (and potentially several in 5090, if you take part in that).
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@apolez3 Mar 2022
Thanks, yeah that song was powerful... We should do something next year!! xoxo
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@n24 Mar 2022
Wow Susan, thank you for all your comments! It’s such a delight to receive such lovely feedback and I really appreciate all your input and thoughts!
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@ltunes Mar 2022
Thanks for the comments on My Lare Winter Heart. Liz's lyrics just sing off the page. This was my first collaboration and Liz made it an amazing experience.
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@nadine Mar 2022
You're welcome! Some people join 50/90 in July - September for that reason. I probably won't cause I have too many things on my plate.
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@nadine Mar 2022
Thanks a lot for listening and commenting! I am honoured to read your words about songwriting in many genres :) it's fun you picked the soft side to listen to. This FAWM has been very dark and heavy. I plan to rerecord most songs in larger teams and better quality in the next months.
I didn't understand the morph challenge until I tried one. Basically you listen to the song of the person before you and modify 50% of the song. You could write bew lyrics, change the chords, instruments, whatever. @nateger did an acoustic jazz track so I took some of his chords, some of his lyrics but changed the overall mood. The next one does the same with my song. It's very challenging but fun! Maybe just pick a morph chain and listen to all songs from beginning to end. -
@angelinapowersuit Mar 2022
Thanks so much for your comments on "Let's Sit. . . " I am folky to a fault, haha.
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@actualjulian Feb 2022
Hey Susan! Thank you so much for your kind feedback on The Memory of Everything. I hope that this year has been outstanding for you. Congratulations on finishing in year 3! May the FAWM be with you ALWAYS
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@pvk2020 Feb 2022
Happy Fawm. Have a good year creating
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@trolls2 Feb 2022
you're welcome for the support-i don't know as my song influences actually show up in my music but they are there nonetheless!! and yes i really liked A Tiny Crack!!
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@paulharrison Feb 2022
Thanks for your nice comments on Thumb-body Special, Susan, and for the well wishes. I suspect it may need editing if/when I put it to music, but for now it was a fun diversion. "Write what you know," right?
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@n24 Feb 2022
Thanks Susan, it has been such a pleasure to have worked with you and gotten to know you better. I’m very proud of our collaboration :)
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@crisp1 Feb 2022
The Reason You Breathe is all yours, Susan!
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@paulharrison Feb 2022
Well, the track would have to wait. My recording was on my phone. I just had trigger thumb surgery so I can't play guitar for a week or two. I don't mind doing that later but in the meantime I could just send my chord chart and you can see what you can do with it. I'll send it along and try it if you like. If it doesn't work for you, I'll try plan B when I can play again.
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@paulharrison Feb 2022
Hi Susan. Thanks for your very kind comments on A Seaside Chat. That would be great to hear a version from you. Do you want me to email my chord and lyrics chart or do you prefer to "interpret?"
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@feb21sundari Feb 2022
Thank you for the comments you gave to My nerdy mate
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@daveyboy103 Feb 2022
Set you as a collaborator on It’s about time
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@daveyboy103 Feb 2022
Please go ahead, be interested in hearing it
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@monty Feb 2022
I added you as a collaborator on The Bench. Thanks for taking it on.
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@jmso91 Feb 2022
P.S thank you for your comment on my recent lyrics, yes you totally understood the meaning, it is conflicting that significant people pop into our heads on their birthday even if they weren't nice. I'm trying something new today so we'll see how that goes!
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@jmso91 Feb 2022
Ahh I'm glad to hear that. Thank you very much x
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@n24 Feb 2022
Amazing! I’m excited to see what you come up with :)
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@jmso91 Feb 2022
Thank you, I really appreciate your kind comment and I hope your family member is ok <3 Sending you love and support x
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@n24 Feb 2022
Hey thanks for the lovely comment, I’d love to collab if you wanted to do the music :) I’d be pretty happy for you to interpret the music however you’d like, but this is my first collab so I don’t know exactly how it’s done!
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@musicbymichelle Feb 2022
Thanks for the lovely feedback!
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@coolparadiso Feb 2022
They are all good but the episode i got my line from was season 3 episode 9 called funhouse!
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@coolparadiso Feb 2022
The show was called Lie to me! Old now! But if you have not seen it its great! One of my ever favs
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@trolls2 Feb 2022
Thanks for your encouragement!
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@paulharrison Feb 2022
Thanks so much for your comments on Grasping at Love!
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@berni1954 Feb 2022
Thanks for your comments on a few of my songs. I truly appreciate them.
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@greengrassgirl Feb 2022
Thank you SO much for your heartfelt delivery of My Man of Few Words. And I love the piano, too. Thank you, sheslin!
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@berni1954 Feb 2022
Glad you were impressed by my Collab with Liz: "I still want you"
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@andrewrusse Feb 2022
Many thanks for your listen to After The Storm. I loved your comments.
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@thecarpenter Feb 2022
Thank you for the listen and kind. words. Glad you liked the tune. Hope you're making the best of FAWM. Sounds like you are. Great!
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@gregwere Feb 2022
Thank you for your lovely thoughtful comments on my song Inside Out - tuning was altered on a steel string, Joni of course was a fast at it, as you noted.
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@roblincoln Feb 2022
Thanks for your comments on my songs On the Road to Somewhere and Then Morning Comes. I look forward to listening to more of your songs soon.
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@princesssavania Feb 2022
Susan!! You know how much I value your feedback! Kimbra vibes?! Ur gonna make me cry lol thanks for listening, I’m so glad it could resonate. Love ya!
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@davidsnyder Feb 2022
Hey thanks so much for your comment on my Scottish song! :
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@tamsnumber4 Feb 2022
Thanks for your kind comments on "We Don't Have a Clue"!
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@n24 Feb 2022
Thank you for the kind comment! Really glad you enjoyed it :)
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@mikeb Feb 2022
Thanks for the listen and comment on my collab with Tams, 'We Don't Have a Clue'!
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@paulharrison Feb 2022
Thanks SO much for your kind comments on Given Time! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Btw, I see that you are in Elliott City. I lived in Anne Arundel Co until 6 years ago when my wife and I moved to Cambridge MD. Small world, eh?
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@greengrassgirl Feb 2022
Susan, I LOVE what you did with My Man of Few Words! Such a lovely delivery, and the piano is just right. The song ends, and then I immediately hit Replay because I don't want that mood to end. Thank you so much for bringing your vision to this lyric. I'm very pleased.
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@bjunker Feb 2022
Thanks for the comments on Weather Report! You're right, it's an alternate tuning: a variation on an old time banjo tuning I like: CGCGCD.
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@bjunker Feb 2022
Thanks for the generous thoughts on "Enough"!
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@melaniepegge Feb 2022
Thanks for you lovely comment on my song!
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@truetone Feb 2022
Thanks for the kind words!
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@daveescoffery Feb 2022
Thanks for your comment, and amazing that you also grew up in the house of cleanliness! I’m glad you were able to relate to the importance of allowing the mess!
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@marklberry Feb 2022
Thanks for your comment. Yes, we are family here on FAWM :)
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@jmso91 Feb 2022
Thank you so much for your lovely comment on my song! I've fallen off the wagon a little bit due to some extenuating circumstances but hopefully will carry on soon. Comments like yours are really motivating :)
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@jorgevallentine Feb 2022
Thanks for listening to "When Summer Comes Home"!
I love using parallels and repetition in my lyrics, so once I start something (like starting the song with something about the summer) it feels very natural to then talk about fall and winter, especially in a song where I'm thinking back and then also looking ahead to the future.
I appreciate you taking the time to listen and comment! -
@leakyplusme2 Feb 2022
Thank you Susan for your kind words.
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@aniya Feb 2022
Hi! Thanks again for listening and commenting on Dear Little Me. I'm glad you liked it!
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@porrectus Feb 2022
Thanks for the listen and comment on Burn.
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@pontiuspython Feb 2022
Thank you so much for commenting on "Lightning Bugs". <3
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@grayland Feb 2022
Hello Susan!! Thank you so much for stopping by to listen to The Gunfighter! And thank you for busting the ZONG!!! I appreciated your comments so much!! Thanx again!!
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@daveyboy103 Feb 2022
Go for it!
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@aniya Feb 2022
Thank you for your comment on my song Run (While you can)! It's really encouraging. :)
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@tukayandryan Feb 2022
Thank you for your kind words about Temporal Drifter :)
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@scubed Feb 2022
Hi, Susan! Thanks so much for your kind comments on “Left Ankle Blues”!
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@analogj Feb 2022
Thanks for your comment, Susan. Yeah, the We Can Work It Out is a pretty sophisticated piece of work.
I'm looking forward to checking your songs out! -
@acousticmaddie Feb 2022
Hey! Thank you for your kind Woods and of course you can grab it .I look forward to hear it..
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@apolez3 Feb 2022
Changed the song a bunch of you wanted to relook, ‘talk about the weather instead of complaining to me’
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@daveyboy103 Feb 2022
Thanks for your kind feedback.
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@apolez3 Feb 2022
hi, it's not that about a loss for the perfection concept idea that i had, I'm working on so many at once and well these got finished first, sometimes new ones come about working on something else and that get's done first... I'll get back to you when I get it done~ I'll brought it to the forefront of my mind letting it linger and simmer for some inspiration to write about it hoe you'll like :)Thanks for your comment though on the 'Talk about the weather instead of complaining to me' & 'Duct Tape' ~
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@apolez3 Feb 2022
https://fawm.org/songs/127451/ Would you like to take on those lyrics or wait for others?
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@andygriff Feb 2022
Thank you for your lovely comment on "Good Hope"!
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@jayjay Feb 2022
Thank you for your lovely comments. I have only been writing for a couple of months but am totally hooked.
I love your bluesy picking style
A friend of mine is looking at Guilty for a collab so off the table at the moment but honestly appreciate your enthusiasm.
Always up for a chat and a chance to make something new though -
@cloudhopper Feb 2022
thanks for your kind comment
thats not a guitar but a Turkish baglama -
@bobskyyoung Feb 2022
Thanks for the kind comments on More Than Enough.
FYI, I do have a cadence in mind for it and I'll probably write music for it as well (I need to be in a different head space for that). But...if you want to give it a shot, I'm all ears :) -
@zecoop Jan 2022
I think a common thought in that thread is to not give the first song that much thought, or you might get bogged down and it could affect the rest of FAWM. That's definitely my main reason for going with the surf style, which comes out of my guitar noodling pretty quickly. For the 5/4 one, I did wake up with the title in my head, "Book 'Em Dano (Hawaii Five-4)", which directed me to 5/4, but even then the song itself didn't stay there. I just kind of went in and out of time signatures, wherever the song took me. If your first song just kind of falls out, it usually is a good sign for FAWM, at least for me. Songs tend to fall out more for me when I am having fun, so I just stick with that theme. :)
https://zecoop.bandcamp.com/track/book-em-dano-hawaii-five-4 -
@heuristicsinc Jan 2022
Cool, thanks! I'll keep an eye out for you...
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@jorh Jan 2022
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Hope you have a great FAWM :) looking forward to hearing your music!! -
@apolez3 Jan 2022
Awesome, can't wait! :) I have an idea for the lyrics being about 'perfect' the perception of it basically..,. and probably more stemming off of that; how does that sound?
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@apolez3 Jan 2022
Hi, Happy FAWMing!!, perhaps we can Collaborate! I'd write the lyrics...
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@kahlo2013 Jan 2022
Hi Susan! Looking forward to FAWMing, connecting, listening, and collaborating!
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@heuristicsinc Jan 2022
Hey, just saw you post on the MD thread you're in EC, so am I! Small world.
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@melaniepegge Jan 2022
Hello! Hope you have a good FAWM
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@robhowell Jan 2022
Hi Susan, I just heard your song So Long, linked to from a forum post. I just wanted to say that I think it is beautiful, good work :)
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@hornesgiftshop Jan 2022
Thanks for the kind remarks Susan - cheered me right up.
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@sorby69 Jan 2022
Hi Susan - thanks so much for taking the time to listen and comment on my track on “This is me”.
It’s a good reminder that I should listen to the other tracks posted there! :) -
@emkaydeebee Jan 2022
Thanks so much!
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@monty Jan 2022
Welcome back. Hope we collab again.
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@guatecoop Jan 2022
A very big hello to you!! I hope that you’re back again this year!
