Album Notes

Susan Hamlin is regarged as one of today's finest performers of Celtic and American Roots Music. "Exquisite guitar work" and "warm multi-faceted vocals" --Troy Record.

MAGIC's gorgeous studio production and artwork shine a CD Hamlin's rabid fans say never leaves their CD changer.

MAGIC is full of surprises from the hilarious spoof "New Age Swing" co-penned with Bitchin Babe Camille West, recorded here with a honkin' swing band, to her own award-winning "Adirondack Waters" to inventive arrangements of new and old. Susan's breathtaking vocals are showcased with traditional Gaelic song, unaccompanied Appalachian,and beloved folk classics like Bob Dylan's "Tomorrow is a Long Time" to a magical arrangement of Ralph McTell's "Streets of London." She is joined by award winning all-star backing players, including 7 Nations founding piper Neil Anderson www.antipypr.com and bluegrass masters Chris Leske and Craig Vance (The McKrells)

Hamlin's fine tunecrafting shines on the original "The Gift" a Celtic flavored instrumnental showcasing Anderson's tin whistle and fiery young master fiddler Sara Milonovich.

"... the album's MVP is Neil Anderson, whose mastery of the tin whistle and Uilleann pipes casts much of the album in a decidedly Celtic light. Case in point: a deft reworking of Van Morrison's "Into the Mystic." Where Morrison bathed his 1970 recording in the dank waters of Otis Redding's "Dock of the Bay," Hamlin & Co. punt it back across the Atlantic with a lilting, autumnal arrangement that's more County Mayo than Memphis... artfully arranged and superbly rendered. It's a musical journey that pays dividends for artist and listener alike." Mike Curtin, The Post Star

Born in Buffalo, NY, Hamlin lived her first years with her grandmother who'd emigrated from Ireland's County Offaly. Singing before she could read, she took her 6 string on the road as a Philly based college folkie then joined the original band that later became THE HOOTERS. Her musical oddysey has come back to her roots. Susan now tours extensively from festivals to concerts to public radio, often in the company of today's finest renegade artists. Her inventive arrangements of traditional and new acoustic music and fine originals showcase a major talent who's keeping an eye on the horizon with a nod to tradition.