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Michael Jackson did not come Oberursel
The beautiful youngster of the pop became adult "Susan Cowsill and Band" plays in Music Hall
by Hans Zippert
February 25, 2005
Frankfurter Allemeine Zeitung
Frankfurt, Germany


The guitar and yet more: Susan Cowsill in the Konzerl in Oberursel


Note: I used one of those free online translators for this. Sorry it didn't come out so well. Anyone know German and willing to be a good translation, here's the article. Let me know.


Susan Cowsill was already a star at eight years old. As a member of the family group, The Cowsills, it had end of the sixties years some hits, including, "The rain the park and other things", "Hair" and, "Indian Lake". The Cowsills-family became at the same time with forth rage-the versitel song material, and their live haller mehrstimmiger choir singing lent floating an easy to many Stiicken and partly incredibly iibermiitige AtmosphSre. On that yet joinable Greatest-hit-collection,, The "Best of the Cowsills" one can that in, "We can fly'' nachprilfen, one of the schbnsten numbers of the so-called,, Sunshine pop". How it succeeds them there, only with the word ,,Hey" in the Zuhorer an un-widerstehliche departure mood to ev-witness, is hardly believable.

Original works to are got unfortunately only in the used disk trade, an urgently necessary pop historic reconditioning of its creating has previously not yet stattget' unden. On the first disks, four brothers with the mother sang, came Susan Cowsill in addition, a sister maggot that became immediately the public favorite, the singing and apparently always goods tempered family came quickly the interest of TV maker on itself, an own show stood shortly before contract. Yet hatlen the responsible problem with the appearance of the brothers and sisters (what today hardly yet understand-cash appears) and decided see, that singing family in the retort to it-create. In place of the Cowsills, it brought now "The Partridge-Family" with David Cassidy to rweifelhal' tem international TV renown..

Since 1971 produced the Cowsills its music itself up to, "On My Side" Susan has got its first solo entrance in the wonderful song, "Heather Says". After that the singles step individual Farnilienmitglieder to 1990 does not arise any longer together, to Billy Cowsill, a solo plate brings in, Susan Cowsill widen-met its PubevtSl and becomes not until the eighties again aklenkundig when it sings on several disks of Dwight Twilley. There are close contacts to the Bangles guitarist Vikki Peterson, along that Susan Cowsill the elegischen, "Rain song" schreibl, it iebt uad work-hurried with Peter Holsapple, werlet different, Hootie and the Blowfish" - productions up and has been for the nine-ziger years with the fantastic Continental Drifters there and to see again in Germany. At the age of forty-four years nahrn it schlieBlich 2004 their first solo record up, with which it is now on an European tour.

Also Michael Jackson small child in a families volume began as a sixties, but it is not very true-scheinlich. AB it ever in a Small club in Oberursel appear becomes. Yet the Kiinstlerm, that in its youth already Footbali-stadiums for raging broke-le, bcgruBt the elwa vierxig Zuhorer heart-Hch, "I'm Susan Cowsill and this is", it points behind itself and volume. At the same time the act includes Chris Knotts (guitar), Rob Savoy (bass) and Russ Broussard (drums) the four already long know itself and are balanced out fantantisch aufeinan-the. The heavy cooling off of the Sangerin lends its voice gera-de in the gelragenen Sliicken an inler-essantc Belegtheit and provides sounds dafiir, AB not every tone as well as on the CD.

Susan Cowsill took with the Continental Drifters an entire record with Sandy-Denny-Embroider aul'taken. Voice-laughed is sounds it with the deceased, Fairport Convention. It changes itself with singing with the guitarist and the bassists switching off, once it even the percussion.

It becomes a special very intimate evening, at which one has almost the Ge~ fiihl a persbnlichen invitation of the Sangerin to have followed. Their voice is able,the most different Geiuhle auszudriicken. Erslaunlich isl in some louder passages the tremendous force and directness of the singing. One hatle it in this evening zuhbren endlessly and it those, Titles of any Stiicke acclamations konnen to only experience in order how it interprets these then. It stop almost two hours ohnc interruption and being correct loss through and mixes after this denfcwiirdigen appearance under it totally enthusistic public where one had looked dariiber diskulierl, on which Cowsills' record it at that time at the be-sten and whether one should see yet the hall castle at the New Orleans drive.

Susan Cowsill and volume" play tonight yet in Hamburg in the ..Knust" and in Bremen in the envoy hall of radio tomorrow Bremen. Who loves escape himself that, mufi at the ll. eradicated go already until to New Orleans.




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