While looking for something online the other day (totally unrelated) I
discovered this artist, and wondered if anyone's heard of her?

From: http://www.taylorguitars.com/artists/awp/indies/toney.html

"Susan Toney's soul-stirring mix of rock, pop, folk, and blues is an intimate,
poetic journey to the deep recesses of the heart and the soul. Toney
discovered piano, guitar and the transcendent power of music at age two. After
studying music formally, she bucked the lessons and family pressures, setting
out to forge her own artistic identity. "I held on to my spirit like a wild
stallion, refusing to be broken," she says. "My voice as an artist became a
light to question fear, doubt, authority, and in the process find my own
honesty, hope and faith."

Strange Child is a winding road of mesmerizing songcraft that sounds both
timeless and original. Toney's impassioned vocals yearn and plead with a raw
emotion and edgy intensity, conspiring with the lucid awareness of her lyrics
to touch the listener in the deeply personal ways that female
singer-songwriter icons Carole King, Janis Ian and Joni Mitchell viscerally
connected with their audiences. In "Carolina", she sings: "This journey's deep
as it is long/ Weave my heart my soul my songs/ Out of pieces make me whole
and strong". Toney's quest is our own too, and even when dreams are tarnished
by reality, there'still room for hope, trust, and love.

Toney enlists an A-list lineup of session players to complement her acoustic
work on her 812-C: guitarists Jeff Pevar (David Crosby) and Greg Leisz (k.d.
lang), bassist/ co-producer Chad Watson (Janis Ian), percussionist/vocalist
Arno Lucas (Al Jarreau, Rickie Lee Jones), and keyboardist Skip Edwards
(Dwight Yoakam). The rootsy, atmospheric swaths of electric guitar, pedal
steel, dobro and Hammond B3 call to mind the sonic moods of Daniel Lanois, and
make Toney's music even more emotionally palpable."

She sounds interesting, and the short clips I heard also sounded good - and
that's quite a talented bunch of session players!

Hell

P.S.  I'm still annoyed by the phrase "FEMALE singer-songwriter", though!
Same old story - aren't they good enough to compete with the boys?!
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