For more than a decade, Susan Herndon has retained that true troubadour’s ethos, sharing her passion for song and stirring thousands of kindred spirits throughout the American heartland and Europe.
Herndon draws from a reservoir of original material spanning five albums that have long found her sliding with ease from genre to genre. iTunes may soon run out of apt descriptors for Herndon’s music; her releases have been termed ‘blues,’ ‘country,’ ‘indie rock,’ ‘jazz’ and ‘pop.’ One moment she’s covering a Dylan classic in French with delicate fingerpicking on her guitar and the next may find her sitting at a keyboard paying homage to any number of fellow Oklahoma songsmiths, such as Woody Guthrie, Jimmy Webb, Leon Russell or J.J. Cale. All in an inspired style uniquely Herndonesque. At present, on her new album, "Vagabonde," Herndon collected a number of French songs and the album was a featured favorite record of the year by Jerry Wofford of the Tulsa World. Her last album, "All Fall Down," found her working with Texas musical legend Lloyd Maines and the perpetually lost gonzo Bob Livingston as co-producers.
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