Folk Bands and Artists
Suzanne Jarvie
“Two records down, here is a new major singer of note on the block. Listen, think and learn. 8/10″ Americana – UK
As one listens to Suzanne Jarvie’s sound on her new record In The Clear, it’s hard to imagine it was only in 2014 that this Toronto wife, mother of four and lawyer, found the courage to record her debut album, Spiral Road, produced by Hugh Christopher Brown.
Spiral Road documents the painful journey after her oldest son tripped and fell down a spiral staircase, lapsing into a coma in 2011. “It was a bomb,” Suzanne recalls. “I couldn’t breathe. The doctors said he wouldn’t live, but he did.” The miracle of her son’s survival changed Jarvie’s life. While her son was still at the hospital, she began an intense period of songwriting, never having written anything much prior. “It was powerful and strange.”
Spiral Road garnered rave reviews from the US, Canada, and Europe, comparisons to Emmylou Harris and Lucinda Williams, and a 2015 nomination from the Independent Music Awards for “Best Concept Album”. No Depression described Jarvie’s voice as “seraphim-pure, reaching out and lifting your spirit often without permission.”
