{"id":542,"date":"2019-09-24T19:36:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T19:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/?p=542"},"modified":"2019-09-24T19:36:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T19:36:23","slug":"boys-called-susans-impressive-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/?p=542","title":{"rendered":"Boys Called Susan&#8217;s Impressive Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"990\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3VZ2KibSYh4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Official album teaser video for Pennsyltucky by Boys Called Susan<br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"990\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qlsrglmH8Lg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Boys Called Susan&#8211;Pretty Pantomime (Live at Historic St. Martin&#8217;s Church)<br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>&#8220;No matter what your current location\u00a0<\/strong><em>Pennsyltucky<\/em><strong>\u00a0is a place that you need to visit.&#8221; &#8211; Jeff Monk, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/arts-and-life\/entertainment\/music\/NewMusicNov29.html?fbclid=IwAR0339prJN19vWauJQ7ZRDV7uzdLBw-LPa2U-IXP5YtBoZFrqyWK_QKcBlA\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Free Press<\/a><\/strong><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.winnipegfreepress.com\/arts-and-life\/entertainment\/music\/music-to-our-ears-503125102.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsyltucky Named Top 10\u00a0Roots\/Country album of 2018 by Winnipeg Free Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>\u201cBoys Called Susan have truly captured the essence of Americana music with <\/strong><em>Pennysltucky<\/em><strong>.\u201d &#8211; Bruce Warren, WXPN and Executive Producer of World Cafe on NPR music<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, Russo teamed up with his first cousin Christopher Shearer and recorded the highly acclaimed debut album <em>\u201cPennsyltucky<\/em>\u201d released as the band <em>\u201cBoys Called Susan\u201d<\/em>, which was named in homage of Shearer\u2019s late mother Susan, who passed away from cancer in 2013.\u00a0 Her dying wish was for the boys to make music together, so they crowdfunded their way to Nashville to record at the legendary Butcher Shoppe recording studio with members of Emmylou Harris\u2019 Red Dirt Boys as the studio band.\u00a0 The album, which was produced by Phil Madeira, has been spun on more than 60 radio stations across the US and Canada and received high critical marks both domestically and internationally.  (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boyscalledsusan.com\/\">www.boyscalledsusan.com<\/a> for more info.)Russo\u2019s big bluesy voice wallops audiences with soulful lyrics that bite, but listeners and audiences have always been drawn to the depth in his lyrics, the hopefulness in the blues, and the way he can make a thinking song sound like a drinking song by blending smarts with satire.\u00a0 Russo\u2019s song \u201cRodeo Cool\u201d, which was released on the \u201cPennsyltucky\u201d album was named as a top 5 finalist (out of more than 2000 domestic and international entries) in the \u2018Country\u2019 category of the 2019 <strong>Great American Song Contest<\/strong>, while his song from the same album \u201cUnfinished Symphony\u201d received honorable mention in the Folk\/Americana category. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No matter what your current location\u00a0Pennsyltucky\u00a0is a place that you need to visit.&#8221; &#8211; Jeff Monk, Winnipeg Free PressPennsyltucky Named Top 10\u00a0Roots\/Country album of 2018 by Winnipeg Free Press \u201cBoys<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/?p=542\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boys Called Susan&#8217;s Impressive Debut<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}