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Article: Nuernberger Zeitung September 12, 2005

“Back on stage after the “Baby Break”

When Susie Boehm sat in her LA home as a 12 year old writing her first song, almost hidden behind a guitar too big for her, she probably never dreamed she’d be sitting in a german coffee house years later talking to a journalist about reconciling family with the business of “rock ‘n roll”“When musicians have a baby it often means the end of their career” Susie says. “They stop rockin’” as she calls it. The California born singer also took time off after her daughter was born in ‘98. Luckily for us, it didn’t become more than a “pop-babybreak”.She recorded her wonderfully un-hectic CD “Elemental” , her next baby so to speak, in both her old home, LA, and her new home Nuernberg, Germany. “I always knew I would make music again” she says “even when changing diapers and breastfeeding and all of the other stuff left me no time to even think about it for a while. But music has always been my life force”.When she was 16 her guitar wasn’t too large anymore and she had her first experience in the coffebars of LA. On Maui, Hi., she founded ( together with her friend Pam Navis ) the duo
“The Dames” and they performed together with folk/rock institutions like “Hootie and the Blowfish” and “The Doobie Brothers”. While gigging in Europe in 1995, she met Nuernberg musician Rainer Boehm and they got married two years later.In 2002, the singer/songwriter placed some of her songs in the the successful TV series “Providence”; “My sister worked on the show and she played a few songs for the producers and they liked it”. The audience too, obviously, like it a lot. In chatrooms all over they started asking who wrote and sang those songs. “I learned, only much later how big the impact of my music had been” .(Providence is now being broadcast on German TV.) It’s the kind of exposure that a major label artist would have jumped on. In her case, the project had to develop as it did.
“I don’t think that working with labels, managers and lots of suits would have helped me write the songs any faster. And I think that when you try too hard, when there is too much strategy, it’s almost sure to lessen what you come out with. Besides, I like to have control over my creativity, as much as I can.”Three years on, she has released her first solo CD. The organic process in the songs of “Elemental” , which she recorded both in LA with her brother Paul Mirkovich and in Nuernberg with Benno Baum of Sky Sound Studios, is very evident. Everything on the record seems to have developed in a natural way.Contained in banks of eclecticism, wonderful lyrics and melodies flow into a broad but gentle stream of folk/pop music. Each tune seems to be experienced not only with the ears, but also in a subtler, intrinsic way. If “Elemental” was a wine, you could taste the earth from which it grew. “I think the break was good for me” Susie says, then adds “my daughter is very talented and even now, at 7, tries to play my guitar. I have a dream that one day, she will be singing the songs I wrote in concert”.

 

Dopplepunkt: Cultural magazine for Nuernberg, Fuerth, Erlangen
September 2005

Review: Susie Boehm “Elemental” ( New Releases )

Not only are Susie Boehm’s songs unmistakably in the tradition of great women songwriters like
Carol King, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman or Alanis Morrisette, the voice of the California born singer has it’s own timber. It also has that certain quality of raising goosebumps.
Together with American producer Paul Mirkovich, she has recorded 12 self-penned songs you can let yourself fall into. And most of them should be future classics.

Peter Volker / Dopplepunkt