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About

“She can break your heart and lift your soul from the wreckage within one smartly crafted moment in one of her songs.” (Tom Driscoll, The Red Door Coffeehouse).

News!  Susan's song "Time" (on The Lied To's new record, The Worst Kind of New) was chosen as a top 5 winner for Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting in the Great American Song Contest! 

To hear "Time" click here.

You might not find a straight-out love song in Susan Levine's music, but you will find honest songs about the complexity of modern-day relationships, including the challenges and joys of single motherhood, the ambivalence of finding new love after heartbreak, and the search for grace in the smallest moments. Susan explores the emotional terrain of love, loss and hope with a poetic blend of folk, Americana, pop and country, and a voice that has garnered comparisons to Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton. Since the release of her solo cd, “Atlas”(2007) - described in the Boston Herald as “That rare album where a whole mind and heart are revealed” - Susan has not stopped writing or performing. Through a painful divorce, single motherhood of two young boys, her “day job” as a music therapist, and performing and recording as one half of Americana duo, The Lied To's, with singer-songwriter, Doug Kwartler, music has remained her constant, her way of processing and expressing her experiences and stories from the world around her. 

 

Awards:

2024 Category Winner, Folk-Americana, New England Songwriting Competition

2023 Semi-Finalist International Songwriting Competition

2022 Semi-Finalist International Songwriting Competition

2021 Top 5 Winner Outstanding Achievement in Songwriting, Great American Song Contest

2021 Semi-Finalist International Songwriting Competition

2020 Finalist, South Florida Folk Festival Singer-Songwriter Competition

2020 Semi-Finalist, International Songwriting Competition

2016 4th Place, American Songwriter Magazine lyric contest

2009 Nominee Just Plain Folks Music Awards, best song, female singer-songwriter

2008 Kerrvile Folk Festival New Folk Finalist

2008 Tricentric Showcase Artist, Northeast Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA)

2007 International Songwriting Competition Semi-Finalist

2005 International Songwriting Competition Finalist

2004 Rocky Mountain Folks Festival Finalist

2004 Rose Garden Coffeehouse Songwriting Competition Finalist

2003 International Songwriting Competition Semi-Finalist

2002 Emerging Artist, Falcon Ridge Folk Festival

2002 Honorable Mention American Songwriter Magazine Lyric Contest

 

Discography:

"The Worst Kind of New," 2022 (w/ The Lied To's)

"The Lesser of Two Evils," 2018 (w/ The Lied To's)

"The Lied To's," 2015 (w/ The Lied To's)

“Atlas”, 2007

“Scatter Me”, 2001

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