Austin’s SUZANNA CHOFFEL’s unusual single” Rooster By Rooster” takes flight
“[Choffel] impressed me bigger than any I’ve heard right here with a special sound equal parts Beat poetry, smoky soul grooves and indie-pop eccentricity. Mediate Feist meets Erykah Badu, with a touch of Tex-Mex seasoning.” – Jim DeRogatis, Sound Opinions
AUGUST 27, 2024 (Austin, TX) — “Birds absorb change into my spirit animal – they support connect me to nature, which is continually therapeutic,” says Austin singer-songwriter SUZANNA CHOFFEL about her unusual song, “BIRD BY BIRD,” out at the present time. Inspired by the Unusual York Cases most productive-selling Anne Lamott trendy classic, Rooster By Rooster: Some Instructions on Writing and Existence, Choffel wrote “Rooster By Rooster” for her stepdaughter, who used to be facing overwhelming mental smartly being struggles of depression and dismay.
“It’s a e book about creative writing, and it starts with an improbable introduction with a tale from Anne Lamont’s childhood about her brother being overwhelmed by a be taught paper on birds he had build off except the night earlier than it used to be due,” Choffel explains. “Her father ends up telling him, ‘Hiya, it’s k, let’s true steal it hen by hen.’ I cherished that blueprint of mad about overwhelming initiatives.”
“After I sat down and wrote ‘Rooster By Rooster’ for my step-daughter, she used to be battling depression and dismay, and I was continually looking out to secure her to secure out of her head a cramped and perceive all of lifestyles is correct taking one thing a time, one step at a time, one train at a time. This lyric represents what I was sharing with her. Rooster by hen and stone by stone, we are able to portion this world together / you don’t deserve to be on my own.”
Most other folks deserve to hear this sentiment someday as we burrow deeper into digital connections at the expense of tangible experiences (a field she addresses additional on her drawing shut album, Rooster by Rooster, out on September 27).
“After I wrote the song, I started to search for birds extra in classic – now not prance if I manifested that or it’s true this section of lifestyles the assign you all straight away change true into a hen nerd. The mantra of ‘hen by hen’ or ‘cramped by cramped’ has helped me in my work and lifestyles. I image a flock of birds and then zero in on true one. It helps.”
Rooster By Rooster is produced by longtime Choffel buddy/collaborator David Garza, co-producer on Fiona Apple‘s GRAMMY®-winning album, Accumulate the Walk Cutters. Drummer Amy Wood and bassist Sebastian Steinberg form on the album and its title song, recorded at the important Sonic Ranch in West Texas; customer contributions on Rooster By Rooster (including violin by Warren Hood and Carrie Rodriguez) had been recorded at Austin’s Cedar Creek Studio.
Choffel already had a reputation as a singer-songwriter and performer who glides among genres, eagerly exploring too many influences to compare neatly into any category. Bob Marley, Lauryn Hill, and Mary J. Blige are important inspirations, in conjunction with hooky, Madonna-ish dance-pop, Brazilian song, Stevie Surprise, and her Mexican heritage.
Performing professionally since she used to be 14, Choffel has won several nationwide songwriting competitions and earned a 2009 Austin Music Award for Most nice looking Indie Band. Of her season three stint on The Divulge, Rolling Stone author Jessica Hopper important, “[she’s] one of many handiest singers on any individual’s crew … who had the form of disclose you’d deserve to steal model to for a whole album.”
SUZANNA CHOFFEL – TOUR DATES:
Aug. 31 She Rises World Music Festival Taos, NM
Sept. 7 3TEN ACL LIVE Austin, TX
Sept. 28 Divulge Theater Austin, TX
Oct. 3 Waterloo Records Austin, TX
Oct. 10 McGonigel’s Mucky Duck Houston, TX
