Oh Susanna is returning to the place with the winding roads, the sheep in the roadway and the fireplace in the back room of the concert hall.
"That fire is bad for my voice, but really good for the atmosphere," says the Canadian singer songwriter, whose real name is Suzie Ungerleider.
Last time she played solo; tomorrow she will bring her band, drummer Cam Giroux and pianist Bob Packwood, to play songs from her self-titled third album and her earlier works, 1999's Johnstown and 2001's Sleepy Little Sailor.
"We don't get too loud!", she says.
"We like this combination: it's intimate but it can get groovy, and this latest record really suits the band."
Her difficult surname may have been enough to persuade Suzie to switch to Oh Susanna but there was another reason too. "I guess I wanted to have that mysterious aura around the music," she says. Many of my songs are a lone voice telling a story but it's not necessarily me telling the stories; it can be another voice."
Why call your third album Oh Susanna, and not your first? "The previous albums had very definite themes. Johnstown is a place and you could imagine the songs and stories happening there; Sleepy Little Sailor had many references to dreams and water and romantic things," says Suzie. "Those records went to the dark night of the soul, whereas this one is a more eclectic collection of songs, and people were saying it would be the record to really introduce me to people. So it had to be called Oh Susanna."
Oh Susanna, The Band Room, Low Mill, Farndale, November 1 at 8pm. Tickets: £10 on 01751 432900.
Updated: 09:30 Friday, October 31, 2003
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