专辑: Sleepy Little Sailor

歌手: Oh Susanna

发行时间: 2001年

地区: 美国

语言: 英语

专辑名称：Sleepy Little Sailor

专辑歌手：Oh Susanna

专辑语种：英语

专辑类型：General Folk

唱片公司：Outside Record

艺名Oh Susanna，原名Suzie Ungerleider，出生于美国，从小随父母移居加拿大温哥华，长大以后听所有的音乐风格【特别喜欢滚石乐队】1995年第一次演唱喔，苏珊娜，并与1997年以Oh Susanna为名字的EP，录製了7首歌曲。1999年发行了第一张正式专辑Johnstown，2001发行Sleepy Little Sailor,正是这张专辑让更多人认识她，2003年为同名专辑Oh Susanna，这也恰恰是她首张EP的名称.2006年发行The Cat Lady Sings 2007发行Short Stories.苏珊娜的音乐风格游走在民谣和乡村音乐之间。她的声音属于那种随意又舒服的类型，漫不经心中带着稍稍的暖意。

Short stories deliver brief but indelible journeys. A single mouthful of sublime textures, or a window cracked -- fresh and sparkling images peeking through. Short Stories is also the title of Oh Susanna latest release, an intimate series of portraits and journeys that echo the haunting sound of her debut EP.

Short Stories is a dramatic and compelling collection of songs inspired by both the lives of people in Oh Susanna family and by those recorded in 20th Century American writing. It shares personal fables of heroes and antiheroes as if through the lens of a documentary film.

Short Stories will seduce new listeners and reward the returning. For those who have traveled with her from one album touchstone to the next, there is both continuity and surprise. Literary and cinematic as much as musical, Short Stories has a natural beauty that both entertains and gives the listener room to roam.

Over the last 10 years, Oh Susanna has garnered critical acclaim and loyal audiences around the world with Oh Susanna (2003), Sleepy Little Sailor (2001), Johnstown (1999), and EP (1997). She grew up a Canadian with an American passport, staring at the ocean, mountains and railroad tracks through sheets of rain. She sought refuge with song under burnt-out warehouses and in darkened clubs with the promise of guitar twang and a lonesome cry. Along the way she found inspiration in the music of the likes of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, as well as peers Jim Bryson, Sarah Harmer, Neko Case, Ron Sexsmith, Fred Eaglesmith, Eliza Gilkyson, Patti Griffin, and Iris Dement. Short Stories reunites Suzie with long time band-mates Bazil Donovan (Blue Rodeo) on bass, Cam Giroux (Weeping Tile, By Divine Right) on drums, Bob Packwood (Blue Rodeo) on piano as well as the explosive talents of Luke Doucet, Justin Rutledge and Burke Carroll.

An obvious stand out track is the epic ? You can almost see the credits roll up the screen as this track begs for inclusion on a soundtrack. Suzie抯 story about making a new start after a period of darkness is layered over a touching string arrangement by Kevin Fox.

Upon the release of Short Stories, Oh Susanna will be embarking on a cross-Canada promo tour so that she can tell you more about the album in person. She will also perform an intimate show in each of the cities that she will be visiting. More details to follow. In the meantime, we hope you enjoy Short Stories.

《Johnstown》

——1999年发行

01. Johnstown
02. You'll Always Be
03. Alabaster
04. Old Kate
05. The Bridge
06. Oh My Good Ol' Gal
07. Walking
08. Parallel Rail
09. Pueblo
10. Black Dirt Road
11. Home Soon
12. Tangled & Wild

《Sleepy Little Sailor》

—— 2001年发行

1 Sleepy Little Sailor

2 River Blue

3 I've Got Dreams to Remember

4 Kings Road

5 All That Remains

6 Beauty Boy

7 Sacrifice

8 Forever At Your Feet

9 Ted's So Wasted

10 St. Patrick's Day

11 Ride On

《Oh Susanna》

——2003年发行

1. Carrie Lee
2. Unknown Land
3. Right By Your Side
4. Mama
5. The One
6. I'll Keep It With Mine
7. Cain Is Rising
8. Little White Lies
9. Down By The Quarry
10. The Fall
11. Zoe
12. Billy

《Short Stories 》

——2007年发行

1.Pretty Face

2.Beauty Queen

3.Bullies

4.Three Shots

5.Greyhound Bus

6.Miss Liberty

7.Schoolyard

8.Pretty Penny

9.Holy Roller

10.Billy 4

11.Filled with Gold

Forever At Your Feet

A locket on a chain

A bow that's made from rain

A briar grows entwined with rose

I've come to be forever at your feet

A blossom pages pressed

A knocking at my chest

Oh, winding road please take me home

I long to be forever at your feet

And I hope that you won't mind, my dear

When you see my eyes are lined, my dear

It's because I've waited all these years

For your kisses sweeter than milk

And your touch that's softer than silk

For your treasures

I will be forever at your feet

项鍊上的照片盒里那阳光一般的微笑

纵然此刻雨丝为弦，拉满愁绪的弓箭

纵然玫瑰上缠满荆棘

我也愿永远与你相随

翻到书页里夹着旧时的一叶花

我的胸口却像被狠狠撞了一下

蜿蜒曲径啊，可不可以带我回家

我渴望永远追随你的身影

亲爱的，我希望你不要在意

当你看到皱纹已爬上我的眼角

那是我在漫长等待中计时的刻线

只为你比牛奶更甜蜜的吻

比蚕丝更温柔的拥抱

为了最可宝贵的你

我愿永远与你相随

Oh Susanna的Forever at your feet（永远追随），在网路上完全是集诗情画意的的完美评价于一身，例举一二：

1. 偶然有一天听到Oh Susanna在《Sleepy Little Sailor》专辑中的《Forever at your feet》。超喜欢那种乾净的音乐&忧郁雨声：

雨还没有来，雾总是先行的，看得见，摸不着，但是感觉得到，触肌似有微凉。走在山路，听到风掌拍打树叶的哗哗声，牛铃的叮噹声，迎向前去，就与山雨碰头了。怕山雨的纠缠，躲进叶茂荫浓，却拦不住雨水顺着叶面，一匹滴下一匹的来叩击听觉；冷眼看树外的空间，雨势时骤时疏，雨雾时浓时淡，一幅朦胧透出的水墨韵味，使人无由地多了几分感受。 雨声，蕴含一种淡淡忧愁的诗意；听雨，则是觉察……人生的苦闷遂纷至沓来，心灵饱受淋漓之苦。此种雨声带来的感受虽不得意，但隐隐然自有一种淡而高远的孤清……

2. 听着这首歌就想起余光中的《听听那冷雨》，前尘隔海，古屋不再。听听那冷雨……

清晰的雷雨声，娓娓细诉的如诗声线，已无法分清雷雨声来自窗外还是曲中，很多事情已没必要分清，我们需要做的，只是让曼妙声音蕩涤着我们的心灵。

3. 整个音乐的背景是下雨的声音，加强了因痴情而伤感的氛围，包括歌者淡淡的而饱含感情的唱腔。这种配合天衣无缝。

4. 雨声、雷声、钢琴声，缓缓的提琴声，加上低吟的女声、潺潺的流水声，这样的音乐让我陷进一种情绪里不能自拔……

Oh susanna（喔，苏珊娜）——本身是一首很有名的英文老歌，或者用经典来形容更恰当，歌手的名字或许正来源于此，从她演唱的“Forever at your feet”这首歌来看，她确乎没有辜负这首经典老歌的美名。