SUZAN-LORI PARKS

Suzan-Lori Parks is a novelist, playright, songwriter, and screenwriter. she was the recipient of the 2002 pulitzer prize for drama for her play topdog/underdog starring mos def and jeffrey wright.this cd contains the songs from her new best selling novel published by random house "getting mother's body" the songs appear in the book in lyric form only, they are songs written for the characters in the book to sing. the book is about a black family in texas in the 60's who travel to arizona to dig up the grave of willa mae bead, in which, they believe is buried treasure.Check out her novel "Getting Mothers Body" and her other written works all available at Amazon.com!!!on her book tour Suzan-Lori brought her guitar with her and sang some of these songs at her book readings. her performances were very well received and everybody wanted to know when she planned to put her cd out. here it is.the cd is a mixture of blues and jazz. she sings some songs accapella and some with the guitar, harmonica and piano. she is accompanied by her husband, blues musician Paul Oscher.