Search - Susan Cowsill :: Just Believe It

Upon its original release, Just Believe It was welcomed as a major musical event by those fortunate enough to have heard it. Unfortunately, fate, in the form of Hurricane Katrina, intervened, displacing the artist from her adopted hometown and destroying most of the existing copies of the album. While those circumstances kept the album from reaching a wide audience, the music was too powerful to stay unheard for long, and Just Believe It is once again available to beguile longtime admirers and new fans alike. Just Believe It maintains a solid grounding in the organic honesty of rural folk and the catchy melodicism of '60s pop, while dipping into the fluid R&B grooves of Cowsill's longtime hometown of New Orleans. The album features guest appearances by Lucinda Williams, Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz and Cowsill's former Drifters bandmate Bangle Vicki Peterson. Along with 11 new original compositions, Just Believe It includes a stirring reading of the Sandy Denny/Fairport Convention classic Who Knows Where the Time Goes, which compellingly underlines Cowsill's knack for cutting straight to the heart of a song.