SUSIE HOPMAN: Cowboy Jazz

Susie Hopman

Cowboy Jazz

© 2004 Westwood Int'l. Records (634479097805)

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Susie Hopman teams up with Nashville producer Lonnie Ratliff to create a unique brand of Country Music that will satisfy the critics and music lovers from Austin to Australia.

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Susie Hopman
Bio


Start with the honest glow of genuine warmth; mix in a
generous portion of effervescent energy, dust with showbiz
sparkle and heat up the music. Susie Hopman is cooking.

Susie is the true article: an honest-to-goodness former crown-
wearing rodeo queen from Prescott, Arizona. She grew up on
pure country music and performed her first large-scale shows
for fair and rodeo audiences. After the requisite National
Anthem, she sent her voice soaring through the heat and the dust,
up to the crowds in the grandstand. Her early influences
included Dolly Parton, Alabama, and another noted singer who
also began her career at the rodeo, Reba McEntire.

Susie was a vocal major at Arizona State until, in search of her
own wide-open spaces, she moved to California. She finished
her education at the University of California at Irvine but her
unabashed desire was to sing the most populist of American
musical forms.

Susie has since developed a repertoire that is both authentic
and believable. "To sing country music is really to be a
storyteller. When you listen to songs, the characters come
to life. You relate to the situation because you've most likely
been through it yourself," she asserts. This alchemy is
immediate: her radio-friendly voice effortlessly interprets
words and melodies tailor-made for her soulful delivery.

"Country music is on a different level these days, she insists.
You can still turn on the radio and empathize with the broken
hearted one minute, and the next minute be listening to the
happiest song in the world."

She grew up riding horses in the hills with the coyotes,
mountain lions and eagles. Now, with her cowgirl's heart and
ingenues's grace, Susie Hopman is clearly committed to her
future in country music. "I'll sing songs that I can relate to," she
concludes, "and if it works for me I know it will touch others,
too.

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  • Fantastic vocal range on this track!
    author: Dixon/CPRI

    Susie's Producer is a pal of mine. Heck, Lonnie Ratliff and I even writ a song together. When I first heard: "COWBOY JAZZ"--whacked me aside the head with a 2 X 4!!! I couldn't get over the Lass' vocal range. More than one octave, thass for sure. A very fine job was done on this track. The track should have a very long shelf life. Dixon DeVore Cricket Power Records International (CPRI)

  • great freakin really great
    author: jeff lawrence

    this is a great listen so keep listening or my guitar and i will will move into your basement www.jeff-lawrence.com

  • Great CD from Susie
    author: Lorraine Pfitzner

    Susie Hopman CD Cowboy Jazz is great. I just love the title song. This is a all round Country CD from Susie, well produced by Lonnie Ratcliff using some great muso's. Will receive radio airplay in my radio programs

  • I liked it immensly
    author: Kitt Stinson

    This CD works for me.

  • Producer's thoughts on the individual songs on this CD
    author: Lonnie Ratliff ~ Producer's Notes

    Lonnie Ratliff ~ Producer's Notes Susie Hopman ~ Cowboy Jazz The CD opens with How Come You Go To Her and with the Jim Unger fiddle dancing in and out of the track it is easy to tell this is not going to be a paint by numbers Nashville album. Track # 2 Here Comes Trouble written by the late Ron Davies is a perfect vehicle for Susie's vocals with Perley Curtis's dobro and T.J. Klay's harmonica giving it an odd little acoustic feel that seems to fit the song and Susie perfectly. The Night Has No Mercy is a big ballad that gets sung big time. Susie sings this song with the confidence that comes from living the song's lyrics somewhere back along the path that brought her to where she is today. The 4th. track That Hits The Spot would have been called a positive uptempo love song a decade ago and I would have to say that is still a pretty good discription today. Good cut on this song. The title song Cowboy Jazz is one of those songs that sounds like it has been around a hundred years even though it is actually a new song. Hats off to the songwriters, you did your job. We hope you like what we did with your song. Surround Me With Love is # 6 and I love Susie's vocals on this tune. The harmonica drifting in and out adds a nice flavor also. Cut # 7 Lately Susie delivers this song with all the attitude it calls for and then some. You Got Me Looking comes from Canadian songwriters, Keith & Lana Floen along with Thomas Allen Ross and it definately has the potential to be a big record some day. With the right breaks Susie Hopman's version could take it there. Cut # 9 Brand New Day is one of those songs that just makes you feel good everytime you hear it. Susie's vocals and Dennis Wage's piano part both work the magic that makes it happen. Radio Heart has always been one of my favorite country songs and Susie's cover of this Charley McClain tune just reassures me I have good taste in country music. Cut # 11 Something's Out There If I had to pick a "Sleeper" from this CD it would have to be this song. All the parts are there and they are all working together the way they are supposed to. Susie closes out the CD with a song from Texas songwriter Johnny Mears I Was Wearing White This one don't sound like anything I have ever heard before. It is one of those, close your eyes and watch the movie songs. I would buy the CD just to get this song but the nice part about being the producer is Susie gave me a free CD and I am quite proud of it.

  • wow, what a sound!
    author: Fred MIller

    I listened to a few of the clips and ordered the CD right away. An incredible sound.

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