Susan Enan's Music

The great thing about the recent trend in TV away from sitcoms to more drama based shows has been the improvement in the music featured. A lot of shows have always used good music, even music that is not commonly heard on the radio, but in the last couple of years they have really stepped it up.

Some of my favorite shows (despite their morbid subject matter) are especially good about choosing great artists, both well known and some totally unknown folks. "Crossing Jordan" is always good for some Patty Griffin or Leonard Cohen; "Smallville" prides itself for picking up and coming artists that especially appeal to the younger crowd. "Cold Case" even chooses great songs to play on its show- including an episode featuring music only from U2.

Last fall, one of my new favorites on Fox, "Bones" played a song that I had never heard before and HAD to have. HAD, with CAPITAL LETTERS. It was THAT great! Of course, they did not show any info in the credits, nor did their website. I remembered a couple of lines from the song, and Googled it- and to my luck it brought me to a website of a friend of the artist, who just randomly mentioned it in a post!

The artist is Susan Enan (http://www.susanenan.com). She actually was selling CDs a while back on Paste Music's site, but they have been sold out for a long time. She has a new CD in the works that should be released soon. You can check her out, and the song "Bring on the Wonder", at her myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/susanenan . The song "Monoplain" is also great. If you like Natalie Merchant or Sarah Mclachlan, you will need to hear Susan.

Long live Indie Music!