Suzy Bogguss

“After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.”

“I've always loved to sing.”

“For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.”

“A small venue is so much more intimate and loose. You can actually be more spontaneous, I feel.”

“It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.”

“My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.”

“I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.”

“I think somewhere in the back of my mind I've always wanted to make a whole swing album.”

“Meeting Chet was a life changing moment for me.”

“I've been playing swing chords for a long time.”

“My first solo was in church when I was five.”

“I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.”

“One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.”

“I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.”

“I have been fortunate enough to record several singles and a whole album with Chet Atkins.”

“Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.”

“I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.”

“But it's just been recently that Nashville has started to feel like home.”

“I'm a real Suzy Homemaker.”

“I'm definitely not ready to move into something else. I'm having so much fun.”