Trust the Waves will Hold You

Released November 2022 on Pravda Records

1. Oyster
2. Ain’t that the Way? (Let it Go)
3. If I Were a Boy, I’d Be You
4. Step off the Roof
5. Symphony
6. With a Little Help from my Friends

Beautiful Life: Songs of Prince Re-Imagined

Released September 16, 2016

1. Anna Stesia
2. The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
3. 17 Days
4. I Would Die 4 U
5. The Beautiful Ones / Rant in the Rain
6. Miles Away (orig.)
7. Take Me With U
8. I Wish U Heaven
9. When U Were Mine
10. Reverse Life (orig.)
11. Money Don’t Matter 2 Night

While Gracenote (the CD database) is being updated, please re-title songs in your Itunes as follows:

8. I Wish U Heaven
9. When U Were Mine
10. Reverse Life (orig.)

“It was a steamy night in Austin, Texas. To entertain our hot selves we decided to record a Prince song. The tape rolling through the Tascam Cassette Recorder began to melt giving the violins and guitars on Money Don’t Matter 2 Night a nice wobbly tone. This was the first song of what unexpectedly began a 20 year Prince project.”

The songs are reinventions. They are re-orchestrated through her unique sonic prism blending rock strings, beats, vocals - 11 songs in total.

Joined by guitarist Charlie Sexton (Bob Dylan), Grammy nominated singer Abra Moore, Grammy winning producer engineer Jared Tuten, Poi dog Pondering creator Frank Orrall, and cellist Helen Money (aka Alison Chesley).

Summer Crashing

1995

1. It's Like I Told You
2. Taka Looka Round
3. 3 A.M.
4. Happy
5. Step Off The Roof
6. Fallen For You
7. Mystic River Bridge
8. William
9. Glad & Sorry
10. St. Chris
11. One Strong Thread
12. I Never Saw You Cry
13. Shimmering Coda

Sounding like a movie soundtrack (or 'sonic dream') from beginning to end, Summer Crashing, is a car wreck of musical and emotional events that mulls over the question, "When we die, will we think this was anything?" Mixed by Malcolm Burn. Released by Voodoo/Dixiefrog Records in France and Pravda Records in the U.S.

"The low key but powerfully atmospheric music orbits closely around a nucleus of Voelz's breezy voice and mournful violin with occasional solar flares illuminating the twilight. Mighty Fine" – Trouser Press

"An Aural Crush of dreamy melodies awash in seductive strings and droning guitars. A mesmerizing trip." – Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"Ethereal, wry, solemn, joyful, haunting--all of them apply." – Amazon review

13 Ribs

1993

1. Red River Waltz Overture
2. Wish to the West
3. Bearer of the Torch
4. Let Me Be Your Bible
5. The Bed Song
6. Map of You
7. Velvet Like a Tambourine
8. Good Day to Die
9. Red Drum
10. Mr. Magoo
11. Dogga Bone
12. This Old House

Critically acclaimed first CD, written and recorded between PdP tours. Released on Voodoo/Dixiefrog Records in France and Pravda Records in the U.S.

"The album is an intriguing, musically cohesive 13 song cycle." – 3 Star Review, Rolling Stone Magazine, by Jim Bessman

"Sounding like Nico and John Cale fused into one (somewhat sweeter) being..." -Rob Patterson, Musician Magazine Article

"Between sensual Oriental pleasure and childlike nursery rhyme, this first solo album from Susan Voelz turns in upon itself like a kaleidoscope…. like two people waltzing, sad and exuberant, has the appeal of violets and a rendez-vous in an English garden." - Les Inrockuptibles by Christian Larredie (French Review)

The Musician's Guide to the Road: A Survival Handbook & All-Access Backstage Pass to Touring

Written by Susan Voelz
December, 2007 Billboard Books/Random House Publishing
Available as Kindle and Trade paperback

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Touring - what it’s like and how it’s done.

This book is an engaging reference guide for anyone interested in life beyond the velvet rope and the intriguing odyssey attached to each all access pass. Susan Voelz has dreamed it, lived it, loved it, loathed it and, knowing that those two hours of glory in the spotlight each night are surrounded by equal torrents of drama, excess, triumphs, and once-in-a-lifetime encounters of the oddest kind, she has written this essential rock solid, tour handbook.

Interspersed with several hundred of the author’s unedited tour-journal excerpts, you’ll learn how to prepare for tour, how to live well during your tour, and the best ways to cope with the end and aftermath of a tour.  Included are candid interviews and the 100 Great Lies of Rock.

From Austin Chronicle Online:

Rock On: Music Biz Summer Reading

Meet Dan Kennedy, Danny Goldberg, and Susan Voelz

"All the joys, sage advice and pitfalls are here. I highly recommend this book".
- A. Visconti NYC Amazon Review

"Voelz’s insight is valuable and entertaining." - Jim Caligiuri, Austin Chronicle Review

"Should be required reading for rookies and veterans alike. By far the best one-stop handbook on preparing for and surviving the road.  Don’t leave home without it." - Tony Margherita, (Management, Wilco, Uncle Tupelo)

"...a straight talking primer rooted in experience and heart that cuts through the white noise around making music on the road." - Jackson Haring, High Road Touring

"Susan Voelz tells it all:  the blood, sweat, and tears of touring in the name of rock."

- Harlan Coben, International best-selling author

Girlie Action Top Ten by Margaret Moser - Favorite Book

On air radio interviews: Sirius Radio with Dave Marsh, World Café with David Dye, WBEZ Radio M with Tony Serabia, Jody Denberg, KGSR Austin, Eclectic Company WXRT Chicago.