An old friend of mine, Suzy-Qew, is a great Indie songwriter. She and her band are called Steelstring Safari.

She was influenced by early guitar playing that she was exposed to during her youth. Ah the old St. Pius elementary school days. Now a days she creates her own unique style from whatever comes into her head and performs mostly for personal enjoyment. If she likes it, she records it.

Her music is currently being showcased on a site called Reverb Nation.

I hope that you could listen to her music and tell us here what style of music you think she is playing!

Here’s what I think of some of the songs on Steelstring Safari’s current album:

• For Real is a nice catchy tune. I like the bass runs played on the keyboard. Very functional with a bit of airy feeling to it, nice!
• Another song, Faster, is a tune that is very dreamlike to me. She provides some light U2 overtones and the keyboards are not overstated at all. I never knew that she was into techno! I think it’s beautiful. The video that she has produced herself is very indie in nature and shows her true colours.
• In Time – Sounds like a classic song just waiting to happen! It creeps up on you without realizing it. I LOVE the acoustic guitar at the very beginning. It resembles the tone of my very first guitar, thanks for the flashback SusieQ! Very simple and straight forward. In Time has both a raw and full sound. Throughout the song they are married into a perfect union of the heart. I never knew Suzy-Qew was that good!
• Things Have Got To Change. At the beginning I thought that I was listening to a Scott Merritt album. I can’t exactly put my finger on it though. The way she creates this tune makes you sit back and take the whole song apart and that forces you to think about it, which is really what music is suppose to do. I LOVE the Portishead feel on the electric guitar. The background voice going through a mega phone effect is haunting as well. The guitar solo has that surf/garage band sound like a rough Trevor von Drat mixed in with yet again another Scott Merritt influence thrown in for good measure!
• I Miss You Friend – really good popish tune for sure! I’d like to see Susan Aglukark singing background on this, it would be very distinctive. Not that the band’s background vocals are anything to sneeze at;)
• Smile has that country feel to it. I’m not really into country except Waylon Jennings and his ilk. I honestly like it!
• Alone is one of those songs that you can’t help but get caught up in. It seems to come across as fabulous dinner music that everyone loves to listen to. I really LOVE that style that Suzy-Qew’s providing us here! Go Suzy-Qew go!

So check out her site and tell me what you think.

Keep on Jammin’