No Mockingbird

No Mockingbird

Editorial Reviews
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"Her fiddle is a sweet and wailing voice that is impossible to ignore." Laurie Lewis

<"b0000afwv92999"> About the Artist
For thirty years, Suzy Rothfield Thompson has been a key member of influential roots music bands including the California Cajun Orchestra, Any Old Time, the Klezmorim, Blue Flame Stringband, and most recently, the Bluegrass Intentions. As a side musician, she has recorded with Laurie Lewis, Darol Anger, Kate Brislin & Jody Stecher, the Savoy-Doucet Band, Alice Gerrard and Del Rey; she's also worked with roots music icons Hazel Dickens, Dewey Balfa, Queen Ida, Rose Maddox and Beausoleil.

<"b0000afwv94999"> Album Description
With "No Mockingbird," Suzy's debut solo CD, she draws upon her intense immersion in roots music of the American South, performing old-time and bluegrass fiddle tunes from Otis Burris and Arthur Smith, among others; blues and rags from Bessie Smith and Memphis Minnie; proto-Western Swing from the East Texas Serenaders of 1920s and 30s and a 1913 klezmer waltz recast as a jug band tune! Particular standouts are Suzy's outstanding vocal renditions of "Handy Man" and Dock Boggs' "Prodigal Son."