Suzie Ungelei­der has just released a new track called Baby Blues from her upcom­ing album My Name is Suzie Unger­lei­der.

Fans of Amer­i­cana will be famil­iar with Suzie’s for­mer per­sona – she per­formed in the guise of Oh Susan­na for many years, and has toured the UK, with sold out shows at Lon­don’s 100 Club and the now-defunct Bor­der­line. So why did she decide on the name change after all these years?

Suzie says the change rep­re­sents her recog­ni­tion that the “excit­ing, dark, fun­ny, charm­ing” char­ac­ter that she thought was Oh Susan­na was actu­al­ly Suzie Unger­lei­der all along. “So here I am, leav­ing behind the trap­pings of a per­sona that gave me the courage to climb up onstage and reveal what is in my heart,” she reflects. “It once pro­tect­ed me, but I need to take it off so I can be all of who I am.” 

The new track reveals that Suzie’s vocals have lost none of their pow­er, and none of their emo­tive qual­i­ty. It’s a song about how the trau­mat­ic events we wit­ness when we’re young can haunt and indeed shape our old­er selves. 

Baby Blues is out now with a beau­ti­ful accom­pa­ny­ing video, cre­at­ed by Chris­tine Fel­lows using a com­bi­na­tion of col­lage and stop motion ani­ma­tion. Fel­lows describes her cre­ative process, “Before I made the video, I lis­tened to Baby Blues over and over and over again until it played on a loop in my head all day. I dreamed the song, sat at my work table, flip­ping through pages and pages of images with my Xac­to knife as I lis­tened. The first image that revealed itself to me was the star­ry sky and the land­scape, and every­thing else fol­lowed from there.

” I’m so grate­ful for the oppor­tu­ni­ty to spend time with Baby Blues. It’s a per­fect song.”

Now based once more in her home town of Van­cou­ver, Suzie made My Name is Suzie Unger­lei­der with pro­duc­er Jim Bryson.

My Name is Suzie Unger­lei­der release date 13 August 2021
Suzie Unger­lei­der