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Suzi Ragsdale is many things, but conventional isn’t one of them. She’s done the kinds of things harried people are always saying they wish they could squeeze in: She’s run an artsy, international store (Global Soup), taught yoga, moved to London, cooked ambitious dishes (every blog entry on her MySpace profile offers a recipe). Ragsdale’s musical résumé has plenty variety, too. She’s the daughter of country comedy singer Ray Stevens; she’s been a songwriter and session singer for big-name country acts and a duet partner and accordionist for Verlon Thompson, Guy Clark and Darrell Scott. Last—but by no means least—she’s a singer-songwriter, celebrating the release of two new independent EPs, Best Regards and Less of the Same. They’re full of effortlessly funky, spiritually enlightened storytelling—like the talking-blues number “Wishbone”—and “Chorus Girl 1969” proposes (also unconventionally) an escape from religious dogma: being “a pagan man in 44 B.C.”
Thu., July 9, 7 p.m., 2009
Thu., July 9, 7 p.m., 2009
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