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And all the way from New Orleans comes Susan Cowsill, an ex-flame and old friend who sang backup on many of Twilley early albums, when he was being bounced from one major label to another in his rough-and-tumble Los Angeles days.
Cowsill – best known for her work with the ‘60s pop group the Cowsills (the real-life inspiration for TV’s “Partridge Family”) and the roots-pop band the Continental Drifters and ex-husband Peter Holsapple – will release her solo debut, “Just Believe It” (Blue Corn) in the United States in October. She says it’s a stylistic mix of “roots-rock, Americanna, alt-country and pop, with a Louisiana vibe.”
Her voice can be heard singing backup along with Tom Petty on Twilley’s second Top 20 hit, “Girls,” released in 1984. Twilley and Cowsill reunited onstage for the first time in years at South by Southwest, and she says, “I guess we had so much fun, we’re donna do it again.”
Of Twilley, she said in a separate interview that she’s a “longtime fan and obviously, he’ll tell you himself, and it’s true, he’s a forefather of the power-pop movement. And I think he’s fantastic. I’ve always loved his music. And he’s a dear, dear friend.”
Cowsill and Jan Twilley have been friends, too, since the fourth grade, and both of them liked the same guy for a while.
“Clearly,” Cowsill laughed. “Evidently. But you know what? All things happen the way they’re supposed to happen. It’s all good. Life is all about change, and you never know what kind of package it’s going to come in. But generally, no matter what it looks like, it’s all for the best.
“I’m really looking forward to it,” she said. “I’m also looking forward to some of Jan’s mom’s cooking. I grew up eating her food, and she’s going to make me my favorite: Swiss steak.”
“It’s a tangled we,” Dwight admitted.
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