b. Manchester, Iowa, USA. One of the more eclectic of contemporary country music's artists, Susan Werner conversely boasts outstanding honky tonk credentials - she was born and raised on a hog farm, though her surname derived from her father's German background. By the age of 11 she had begun playing saxophone, later appearing in jazz and marching bands during high school. She took a degree in voice before moving to Philadelphia in 1987 to study for an MA. However, her original intention to pursue a professional career as an opera singer was abandoned after she attended a Nanci Griffith concert at the end of the decade. With new resolve, Werner began to perform as a solo act on the local coffee bar circuit, her set initially comprising cabaret standards. She soon began writing her own compositions, inspired increasingly by folk and country music, eventually making a breakthrough appearance at the Philadelphia Folk Festival in 1992.

Listen to Susan Werner at Finetune.

• (1998)  Time Between Trains

• Time Between Trains
• Standing In My Own Way
• Old Mistake
• Courting the Muse
• Can't Let You In

• Shawn Colvin
• Dar Williams
• Sarah McLachlan
• Indigo Girls
• Ellis Paul
• John Gorka
• Vance Gilbert
• Leonard Cohen
• Richard Shindell
• Joan Baez
• Christine Lavin
• Catie Curtis
• Guy Clark
• Kate Taylor
• Tom Russell
• Jonathan Edwards
• Greg Brown
• Richard Thompson
• Donovan
• David Wilcox

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