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Two-time Canadian Juno Award nominee Suzie Ungerleider officially opens a new chapter of her already distinguished and highly successful career with the release of her new album My Name is Suzie Ungerleider. Its her first since the artist formerly known as Oh Susanna announced that she would now record and perform under her birth name. Bursting with trademark evocative melodies and trenchant lyrics, its the tenth solo studio album by the American-born, Canadian-raised artist revered for such landmark records as Johnstown, Sleepy Little Sailor and A Girl in Teen City. The decision to say so long to her long-time moniker Oh Susanna represents her recognition that the exciting, dark, funny, charming character that she thought was Oh Susanna was actually Suzie Ungerleider all along. So here I am, leaving behind the trappings of a persona that gave me the courage to climb up onstage and reveal what is in my heart, she reflects. It once protected me, but I need to take it off so I can be all of who I am.
The new album is introduced by the characteristically searing Baby Blues, a song about how the traumatic events we witness when were young can haunt and indeed shape our older selves. Its a deep subject with an upbeat punchline. Like ghosts, she says, sometimes you just need to just sit with them, feel their power, and, because they feel seen, they release their hold on you for a little while. Elsewhere, the album depicts an older and wiser artist and mother sometimes writing for her daughter, both at the time of her dramatically premature birth and miraculous survival on the achingly pretty Summerbaby and, now a teenager herself, courageously dealing with her own identity on the intimate Hearts, on which mountains of blue watch over her.
Now based again in her home town of Vancouver, she made My Name is Suzie Ungerleider with producer Jim Bryson, whose assured touch amplifies the atmospheric dreamscapes contained in Suzies reflective, intimate songbook.
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