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Susan Cowsill With Chris Buskey & the High Lonesome Plains.
July 18, 8 p.m., at Cafe Nine, 250 State St.,
New Haven. (203) 789-8281, cafenine.com
You can't say the Cowsills were underrated. The 1968 teenybopper reference guide Flip's Groovy Guide to the Groops! rated them a "super group" alongside the Beatles and the Monkees (and much higher up than mere "groovy groups" like Pink Floyd and the Grateful Dead), and their familial songmaking inspired The Partridge Family . Though the family shilled for the American Dairy Association, you couldn't pigeonhole them as a clean-cut family actnot when they scored a #1 hit with a cover of "Hair."
Barry Cowsill died last September, a victim of Hurricane Katrina; Bill Cowsill passed away in February due in part to emphysema, which also felled the Cowsills' mother, Barbara, in 1985.
Susan Cowsill, who carries on the family's musical legacy, was married to dBs founder and REM sideman Peter Holsapple. They divorced in 2000 and in 2003, she married another of her Continental Drifters bandmates, drummer Russ Broussard. Besides the Drifters (which she originally joined as a guest performer, before becoming its signature vocalist), she's fronted her own Susan Cowsill Band, reunited the Cowsills, had her songs covered by the Bangles and Hootie and the Blowfish, and worked with Bangles guitarist Vicki Peterson (as the Psycho Sisters), Dwight Twilley, Jules Shear, Redd Kross, the Smithereens and Carlene Carter. Her Cafe Nine gig on Tuesday is part of an extensive solo tour.
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