Sue Bailey's voice is familiar - in all the best senses of the word. Comfortable. Close. Easy. If you're looking for comparisons, think Diana Krall smooth with the wit and depth of Mary Chapin Carpenter delivered with the timeless sensibility of Anne Murray. There is a particular resonance Sue achieves with her audience that comes from the fact that she is a singer-songwriter. Her songs reflect her own experience with love and life, with the joy and loss and mystery that accompanies a full embrace of both. Her stories are those we all have in some form or another, and Sue is unafraid to share them with a humor and vulnerability all her own.
She has been writing and singing all of her life. Sue honed her skills playing in campus coffeehouses during college in West Virginia, turning professional performing up and down the East Coast from Charleston to Philadelphia, and eventually making her way to Nashville. Her ten years as a successful singer-songwriter in Nashville produced songwriting partnerships with Patti Ryan, Danny Mayo, and Tricia Walker, some of the best in the business. Sue was a frequent performer at the renowned Bluebird Cafe, known for supporting and promoting the most elite writers in Nashville. Throughout her years in Nashville, she added to a steadily growing catalog of songs that remain her best loved and most requested.
While Sue enjoyed many years of performing, highlighted along the way by sharing shows with such greats as Lucy Kaplansky and Cheryl Wheeler, she has cut back on live performances, but plans to add a few to the schedule in the coming months. Stay tuned! Meanwhile, please enjoy Sue's newest EP, From the Heart, now available for purchase through her website or for streaming/download via Spotify, Apple Music, and most streaming services.