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Suzanne Santo's Americana-Noir Debut Purrs And Broods

Marina Chavez

Suzanne Santo, the fiddling, banjo-playing frontwoman for the duo HoneyHoney, lays out genre-crossing, self-penned songs on her first solo recording, “Ruby Red.” A reviewer described HoneyHoney’s first album as “taking its cue from Appalachian folk, country ballads, jazz and Quentin Tarantino films.”
The songs on “Ruby Red,” which was produced by Butch Walker, are dark and filled with turmoil.  “The whole album’s about accountability,” says Santo. “It’s about mistakes, and learning and growing from them. Just being accountable for them. It’s really important in all aspects of life to do that.” 

Santo joined fellow Clevelander John Floridis on her 33rd birthday for a conversation about how her Rust Belt sports fan sensibilities mesh with her Americana songs.

(Broadcast: "Musician's Spotlight,"  6/14/18 and 9/13/18. Listen on the radio Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., or via podcast.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQAVa_p0EK8

John Floridis, the host and producer of Musician's Spotlight, has been with Montana Public Radio since 1997. He has interviewed over 200 musicians during that time. He is also an independent recording and performing artist in his own right and a former registered music therapist.
Beth Anne Austein has been spinning tunes on the air (The Folk Show, Dancing With Tradition, Freeforms), as well as recording, editing and mixing audio for Montana Public Radio and Montana PBS, since the Clinton Administration. She’s jockeyed faders or "fixed it in post” for The Plant Detective; Listeners Bookstall; Fieldnotes; Musicians Spotlight; The Write Question; Storycorps; Selected Shorts; Bill Raoul’s music series; orchestral and chamber concerts; lecture series; news interviews; and outside producers’ programs about topics ranging from philosophy to ticks.
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