Member Since: 06/10/2007
Band Website: www.cdbaby.com/cd/susanhowe
Band Members: My band The Horseplayers has included Twinkle, Guaranteed Fresh, Ketchup Lid, New Larger Size, Scott Brown, Brian Leslie, Rod Atha, Jerry Sparkman, and Frank Anderson.Artists on my 1st record include Joey Spampinato , Kami Lyle, Dave Roe, Doug Lancio, Kenny Malone, Jack Irwin, Mike McAdam, Jim Hoke, Robert Britt, Paul Griffith, Matt Turner, Frank Anderson , Mike Fredrickson, and Brian Leslie.
Influences: I found a guitar in the basement closet in 1979 and started writing songs. I've learned a few covers since then. Here's some titles: Amateur Hour by Joe Jackson, Let's Go Out Tonight by the Blue Nile, Johnny and Mary by Robert Palmer, Star of Bethlehem by Neil Young, Between the Bars by Elliott Smith, Crazy Man Michael by Richard Thompson and Dave Swarbrick, and Moon River by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer.There were jazz records in my dad's collection - Bix Beiderbecke, Sydney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, and Pete Fountain. There was also Perry Como, Barbara Striesand, Tchaikovsky, and Spike Jones. From my mother's Zenith kitchen radio I remember these the best - The Most Beautiful Girl in the World by Charlie Rich; John Barry's instrumental theme and Nilsson's recording of Everybody's Talkin from Midnight Cowboy; Whipped Cream by Herb Alpert and the Tiajuana Brass.My favorite artists in my formative years were Jackson Browne and the Bee Gees. They're still way up there on my list.
Record Label: Unsigned