All Fall Down - CD
2010/11 Album produced by Lloyd Maines, Bob Livingston, and Susan Herndon. All songs by Susan Herndon, except, "Everything to Me" by Susan Herndon and John Hadley, and "Oklahoma Girl" by Bob Livingston, John Hadley, and Susan Herndon.
Featuring Lloyd Maines on everything, Chris Gage on everything else, David Sanger on drums, Glenn Fukunaga on upright, electric, and fretless bass, John Fullbright on harmonica, Christine Albert, Laurie Turner, and Livingston on harmonies, Susan Herndon on guitar, piano, and vocals, and with special guest, Butch Hancock on yodels. Recorded at Cedar Creek Studio and Moon House Records in Austin. John Silva mixed and engineered the album and Pat Manske mastered it at the Zone in Dripping Springs, Texas.
Her last album, 1,000 Pies, contains tunes ranging from sweet acoustic ballads to straight up country, rock and roll, and even a little red dirt jazz-- skipping with ease between genres and showing hints of her inner bohemian.
Born in St. Louis, but completely Okie bred-- that is, until moving to France, Susan began performing there, busking in the streets, then playing regularly with a group of fellow-vagabonds in Auvergne, in Provence, and in the Dordogne. These past several years have also seen her gigging relentlessly from Okemnukov, Ukraine to Okemah, Oklahoma, and playing and touring regularly in venues throughout the US.
Her album credits are a who's who of some of Oklahoma's best musicians. But Susan Herndon is best experienced live-- and she loves a live show, maintaining a commitment to the fun, camaraderie, and love through the mystery and beauty and power of song-- always surrounding herself with a band of great and unique musicians.
"You can call her music singer-songwriter music, Red Dirt music, folk music. Just about the only thing you can't call it is easy listening. she has both a facility for lyrics that mean something, and remains fiercely independent." Whatever the descriptions or comparisons: "Herndon might be described as eclectic or versatile, but never predictable-- and always entertaining."
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