The Birds of Florida Release Date: 01/05/2022

Panthers iguanas and flamingoes meet up with dobros, bongos and marimbas on songwriter Susan Werner's colorful new EP The Birds Of Florida.

"I wound up riding out the wintertime of the pandemic in Siesta Primal nigh Sarasota," Werner says, "And despite my best efforts to relax, I somehow left with an anthology."

Produced by drummer Erik Johnson (Huffamoose), the lush arrangements feature Gulf and Western sounds ranging from rumba to reggae to bolero ballads to Bakersfield twang. Werner's signature sharp lyrics capture the beauty and strangeness of the Sunshine State – from the playful lead rail "Florida La La La" to the beach stroll of a beloved song "I Could Get Used To This" to the heartfelt and poetic "The Birds of Florida."

"I was non looking for songs in Florida," Werner says. "I was just trying to get through a really, really long winter, similar everybody else. But the tunes started landing, like, well, birds. From a talking Blueish Macaw on a man's shoulder in Key West, to a radio report about cold-stunned iguanas falling from tree branches, to a silver haired Siesta Key neighbor who uncannily resembled an ibis, birds and flying things began actualization everywhere, including in my songs. After a while I stopped chasing them off, and I'm glad I did. Considering with these songs, this recording, I might have accidentally fabricated a skilful case for the Sunshine State."

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  • ane Florida La La La
  • ii I Could Get Used to This
  • 3 Raining Iguanas
  • 4 I Didn't Encounter Y'all
  • five The Birds of Florida

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Full Catalog

Download Susan Werner's full catalog of albums, plus bonus tracks (demos and unreleased songs), and live concert video footage with one click!

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Includes the following:

  • ALBUMS
    • 1993 – Live at Tin Angel
    • 1993 – Midwestern Saturday Dark
    • 1995 – Last of the Good Directly Girls
    • 1998 – Time Between Trains
    • 2001 – New Non-Fiction
    • 2004 – I Tin can't Exist New
    • 2007 – The Gospel Truth
    • 2008 – Live at Passim
    • 2009 – Classics
    • 2010 – Kicking the Beehive
    • 2011 – Live at the Center for the Arts in Natick
    • 2013 – Hayseed
    • 2017 – An American in Havana
    • 2017 – Eight Unnecessary Songs
    • 2019 – NOLA
    • 2020 – Flyover State (for downloads after Sept 27, 2020)
    • 2022 – The Birds of Florida (for downloads later January 8, 2022)
  • VIDEOS
    • All Mapped Out (live concert & tour footage)
    • 1955 Chevy Bel Air (official music video)
    • Live at Stone Mountain (concert footage)
    • Free Your A** (official music video)
  • EXTRAS
    • Unreleased songs
    • Demos
    • & more

Sheet Music: Nostalgia (from An American in Havana)

Sheet music for Susan Werner's often requested pianoforte instrumental, Nostalgia (from An American in Havana).  This is a single song PDF of the canvas music,$v.

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An American in Havana

Chicago musician Susan Werner wrote the six songs of "An American In Havana" during her travels to Cuba in 2015 and 2016, and the recording features her trademark wry, poetic lyrics set to Cuban sounds and songforms.  Produced with Venezuelan drummer Pablo Bencid (who plays timbales and drums) and featuring Cuban American percussionist Mayra Casales, the EP is a vivid, colorful mural of the delights (riding in a vintage American car along Havana's Malecon), the beauty and scarcity (detailed in the lead track) and the obsession with coffee (Cortadito) that are part of every American'southward introduction to the island.

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  • one Cuba Is 4:09
  • 2 1955 Chevy Bel Air 3:36
  • 3 Havana Moon 4:51
  • 4 Cortadito iii:12
  • 5 Nostalgia (al estilo Lecuona) – instrumental iii:45
  • vi Stray Dogs three:57

Songbook: viii Unnecessary Songs

This songbook includes all of the songs on the 8 Unnecessary Songs CD.

1.

Small Planes

2.

No New Friends

3.

Recumbent Bike

4.

What Did You Practise To Your Confront

5.

Canis familiaris

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Pabst Blueish Ribbon

7.

Bad Bad Bad

8.

Career Counseling 101 (Don't)

nine.

The Motorist'south Prayer

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Sheet Music: May I Suggest

Sheet music for the often requested May I Propose.  This is a single song PDF of the canvas music, including piano and tabs with lyrics.

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Songbook: Hayseed 2013

This songbook includes all of the songs on the Hayseed projection. No pianoforte music, merely the guitar chords.

1.

Back to the State

two.

Egg Money

three.

Metropolis Kids

four.

Snowmobiles

5.

Bumper Crop

6.

While Y'all Wait For The Rain

7.

Herbicides

8.

Found The Stars

9.

Something To Be Said

10.

Iowa

xi.

Ode to Aldo Leopold

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Songbook: The Gospel Truth

Unlike from the concluding songbook, which was piano-centric, this sheet music is too great for piano but much more guitar friendly, whether you play with or without a capo. Nosotros are providing lyrics and chords for all songs, plus lead sheets/complete charts for 5 of the almost requested songs on the record.

i.

(Why Is Your) Heaven So Pocket-sized

ii.

Help Somebody

3.

Forgiveness

4.

Did Problem Me

5.

Sunday Morn

6.

Our Father (The New, Revised Edition)

vii.

Lost My Organized religion

viii.

Don't Explicate It Away

9.

I Will Have My Portion

10.

Probably Non

xi.

Together

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Songbook: I Can't Exist New

thirteen Original songs from the CD I Can't Exist New plus 2 bonus charts: Movie of My Life from the CD Time Between Trains and May I Propose from the CD New Non-Fiction. Some songs have been transposed for ease of play.

1.

I Tin can't Exist New

two.

Late For The Dance

iii.

Seeing Yous Again

four.

I'grand Not Certain

5.

Much At All

six.

Tall Drink of Water

7.

You lot Come Through

8.

No 1 Needs to Know

ix.

Let's Regret This In Accelerate

10.

Don't I Know Y'all

11.

Philanthropy

12.

Stay On Your Side Of Town

13.

Coda: Maybe If I Sang Cole Porter

14.

Moving-picture show of My Life

fifteen.

May I Suggest

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