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Susan Cowsill As a member of the '60s pop vocal group The Cowsills, Cowsill reached the Top 10 with "The Rain, the Park and Other Things" and the title track from the musical Hair, both now considered pop-psychedelic classics. The band's day-to-day lives were later fictionalized on the hit TV series The Partridge Family. In the mid-'90s, Cowsill, along with then-husband Peter Holsapple, reemerged as part of The Continental Drifters, a sprawling collective consisting of expatriate New Orleanians and post-punks from L.A. Even as a young girl, Cowsill was a soulful singer, but in the Drifters she also proved to be a deft pop songwriter whose best work was tinged with sadness. Especially poignant are ballads like "Spring Day in Ohio" and "The Rain Song," both of which convey a heartbreaking sense of aloneness. That said, Cowsill's shows aren't hangdog--her current touring band includes hard-driving Louisiana drummer Russ Broussard (her husband) and former Cowboy Mouth bassist Rob Savoy. Radio Cafe
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