Susan Christie

Susan Christie was a Philadelphia-based folksinger and a one-time person in the Highlanders, that city’s best “big-band” folk ensemble of the first ’60s. She went to the Berklee University of Music in Boston, and had taken easily to the brand new requirements from the flourishing folk-rock field in the middle-’60s. She was cheerful and sufficiently available as a vocalist to lend her tone of voice to the tune “I REALLY LIKE Onions” (popularized in the Captain Kangaroo present) in 1966. That was more than enough to obtain her an opportunity to trim a brace of demos through the years 1966-1968, made up of exquisitely gorgeous types of what could just be called acid solution folk. Her potential record label was unimpressed with (or, much more likely, unprepared for) Christie’s melodic however thoroughly downbeat masterpieces, mostly her exclusive assumes traditional nation and folk materials, which included perhaps one of the most hauntingly gorgeous and eerily frightening edition of Stan Jones’ “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky” that one will probably ever hear. Her following efforts at obtaining recorded found nothing at all, and Christie continues to be something of the mystery, concerning her destiny and career, since. In 2006, eight of her middle-’60s demos had been assembled for the CD discharge by B-Music, hence tugging Christie out of the obscurity much larger than that ever experienced by, state, Vashti Bunyan, and revealing her music for an market two generations taken off the one that she was aiming (and only if a downtown NY gig as well as the attendant press interest could follow, as occurred for Bunyan…).