Susan Christie: Paint a Lady LP

By: Charbarred | in: Music |

30 years ago, a Philly based folk singer named Susan Christie was dropped by her record company. After one novelty song, the label bosses didn’t think her melancholy take on country and solitude would ever be of any interest. Five copies of her album were pressed and faded into obscurity. Skip forward to present time, and a small label, ‘Finders Keepers’ salvages three out of these five copies and decides to release it.

Susan Christie’s album is a beautiful piece of despondent tales and folky psychedelia. The fascinating thing is that it sounds very current. The title track is reminiscent of Portishead , while other songs incorporate break heavy folk-funk, current DJ’s would die for.

Don’t get me wrong, it is an obscure 70’s folk record at its heart, but highly worth listening to today.

Sound clips and track list form the album:

1. Rainy Day mp3
2. Paint A Lady mp3
3. For The Love Of A Soldier
4. Ghost Riders In The Sky mp3
5. Yesterday, Where’s My Mind? mp3
6. Echo In Your Mind mp3
7. When Love Comes mp3
8. No One Can Hear You Cry

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Posted on October 20, 2006

Comments

3 Responses to “Susan Christie: Paint a Lady LP”

Dave Hughes on October 14th, 2007 5:59 am

Hi,
Do you know what Susan Christie is doing nowadays. Did she ever play live again? if she is in England, near London and would like to play i have a venue.
Regards
Dave

Charbarred on October 14th, 2007 7:53 am

No idea what happened to her…hardly any info on the net. You can try and contact Finders Keepers the record company that released this: doug[at]finderskeepersrecords.com

What venue do you run?

Ivan on December 10th, 2007 5:46 am

Great album. You can put the lyrics of “Yerdaday, Where’s My Mind?”? I do not understand much English and this song is one of my favorites. Thanks.