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MP3 Susan Robkin - how to say goodbye
12 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Modern Rock, POP: Today''s Top 40
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Beginning her musical journey on a dare, multi-award-winning artist Susan Robkin has received notable attention with her contemporary pop/rock songs. Thanks to her classically trained, four-octave vocal range and hook-filled songwriting style, her blend of introspective and observational lyrics, dynamic melodies and textured rhythms has earned her comparisons to Pink, Melissa Etheridge, Sheryl Crow, Alanis Morissette and Pat Benatar. Robkin "...has clearly been doing her songwriting homework, and never met a hook she didn''t like...solid, creative, commercial and instantly memorable songs..." says L.A.''s DIY Reporter. Her songs have been featured on MTV Road Rules and on several compilation albums. Her latest release, Surfacing To Breathe (May 2004) features the incredible rhythm section that backs Peter Gabriel''s band, including: Tony Levin, Jerry Marotta, as well as such talents as Chris Palmaro, Kenny Ascher and a host of others. Elliott Randall produced the 13 song all originals album that is winning praise with every play!
2001 & 2002 ASCAP Achievement Award Winner (national)
DIY Album of the Year (Los Angeles, CA)
Seattle Area Music Innovation & Excellence Awards:
Album of the Year, Artist of the Year & Female Vocalist of the Year
2001 USA Songwriting Competition - Finalist, Rock category
https://www.tradebit.com Artist of the Year (Internet)
XM Satellite Radio Artist of the Month
2003 Disc Makers Independent Music World Series - Semi-Finalist
We are all victims of history. If Susan Robkin had been born 30 years earlier, she would probably have been hailed as one of rock''s leading and trail-blazing women heroines. She has the strength of a Joan Jett with the minute care for how words sound that fills up an Alanis Morissette or Sheryl Crow. And that is how she manages to rock us with a folk/blues based power sound that finally takes rock away from the acoustic and puts it back nearer pop. She''s more concerned with the performance and melody and clean sound than trying to make an eclectic ''statement.''...If Susan Robkin''s hungry, turned-away, beaten, depressed, needing, hoping, wanting sound isn''t touched by brilliance, then neither is Madonna or Jewel or the two-name fe- rockers that have conquered the world...her talent will hold its own toward stardom.
- Ben Ohmart (Assistant Editor), https://www.tradebit.com
Susan Robkin has a muscular yet feminine take no prisoners vocal style and crafts sharp, emotionally gripping songs. She''s also a looker and backed by a strong fat-free guitar rock band. In other words, Robkin is primed for serious AAA stardom and it boggles the mind why she isn''t on a major label and getting pushed like the next Sheryl Crow. Someone just get her on FM radio and clear a wall for the
platinum records.
- Devil in the Woods magazine
If you aren''t yet convinced of the quality that can be found in the Indie music scene, Susan Robkin will put doubts to rest. Her sophomore CD, "how to say goodbye", is as good as anything major labels offer and in many cases far better. Robkin has a power and presence of voice that turns mere listening into an experience. She is a songwriter''s songwriter. The songs are passionate and stirring both lyrically and musically, and seem to soar right off the disc and straight into your soul. They are emotional and unapologetically brave. They are triumph over angst, and will leave you standing a little taller and straighter before the first three tracks are over. Treat yourself to Susan''s artistry, and have faith that there IS good music out there.- https://www.tradebit.com
Robkin is pop rock at its best. Her CD, how to say goodbye, should sit in every collection...
- https://www.tradebit.com (named Susan Robkin their 2001 Artist of the Year)
...Oh I hate to say it, because it sounds so typical to review a female singer/songwriter and automatically compare them to all the obvious contemporaries but...Okay, so she really does sound a lot like Sheryl Crow mixed with Lucinda Williams. Okay, if I have to come right out and say it she''d be sitting well smack in the middle of the Lilith Fair lineup. That''s not supposed to come off as at all insulting, either, she really has got the talent level of the aforementioned contemporaries. Frankly this is really, really good stuff and I won''t be surprised to hear from her again, albeit on a much larger label...
- Mike Po, RANT!
As the bar really began to fill, the lovely Susan Robkin took the stage. She has a huge voice - clear as the Texas skies - which is surprising since she hails from Seattle. Susan sings with polished pop perfection and it is shocking someone so at ease with the stage has not been performing that long. With vocal elements reminiscent of Pat Benatar and Laura Branigan, Susan mixes silky ballads with driving pop. Robkin''s crystal vocals and intelligent lyrics climb and mesh with the backing band to fill the crowding room. Susan has been winning awards left and right in her native Seattle and the reasons clearly show. Talent, style and delivery make this woman one to watch.
- Dona Edwards, 2002 SXSW showcase reviewer
[Susan Robkin is a] phenomenal Seattle-based female
vocalist [who] delivers powerful songs...there''s a definite story building here...
- The Album Network (Clear Channel Entertainment Magazine)
In an era when so many artists create tiny songs,beating down truth with irony, hiding their feelings behind false bravado or veils of disinterest, [Susan Robkin''s] openness is refreshing...[the song] how to say goodbye''s message of freedom after an oppressive love affair demands a setting as huge as can be imagined. Robkin doesn''t sell it short. Her voice is as commanding as a storm warning...
- Eastside Journal
Susan''s performances are marked by a disarming display of vocal power, belied by her gentle personality. Her music is deep and personal, and the band delivers the emotional intensity in a profoundly professional manner, while remaining incredibly friendly and uniquely approachable. Performers of this magnitude cannot remain a regional secret forever...
- Puget Sound''s TV
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