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?White Swan,? Susie Glaze's fifth release, is truly her most eclectic and collaborative album in over ten years of her critically-acclaimed career as a bluegrass/folk recording artist. With this CD her Hilonesome Band has veered into the realms of new Celtic-inspired folk songs that harken back to the ballad form from the pen of lead guitarist Rob Carlson, as well as re-interpreted classic cover songs from such diverse sources as James Taylor, Steve Earle and Jean Ritchie. Also featured are two songs from Los Angeles singer-songwriter and Kerrville New Folk Winner Ernest Troost. Arrangements and new interpretations of songs you think you knew are here for re-discovery from this gifted acoustic quintet in a lush and orchestral folk setting.  The eclectic range takes the listener from bluegrass (?Little Rabbit?) to pensive country (?Evangeline?) to bossa nova (?April Fools?) to Celtic-inspired torch song (?The Dark Eileen?). The album begins with a newly-interpreted Mill Worker, James Taylor?s classic, introduced by Mark Indictor?s beautiful fiddle on the traditional ?Si Bheag, Si Mhor.?  Indictor?s fiddle is featured again on Carlson?s new take on the old Polly Vaughn story, this time as the title track ?White Swan.?  Jean Ritchie?s little-known but powerful ?The Soldier? sends a message about the costs of war on the soul.     The innovation of this formerly-bluegrass band is taking them to a distinctly folk-driven American music that contains the sounds that came to America with the first immigrants: Appalachia, old-English balladry, Irish barn-burner fiddle music (the outro of ?White Swan? was penned in the studio) and tender stories of family and legacy (?Harlan County Boys?). One great bonus is the inclusion of a previously-recorded live onstage sound track of the classic Childe ballad ?Fair Ellender,? arranged by Jean Ritchie, with Susie accompanied by Ritchie sons Peter and Jon Pickow and famed East coast fiddler, Kenny Kosek.    Visit www.susieglaze.com