Susan Werner

With her six critically-applauded albums in tow, Iowa-raised farm girl Susan Werner is well on her way to becoming one of the defining artists of the folk genre. Her songs smoothly join together folk, jazz and pop, and are delivered with a sassy wit and classic midwestern charm. Werner began her music career as classical voice student at Temple University in Philadelphia. She began performing at coffeehouses as singer-songwriter and released her debut, Midwestern Saturday Night, in 1992. BMG/Private Music released her third album, 1995's Last of the Good Straight Girls, but the next few years saw Werner return to self-releasing her albums. In 2005 Werner made splash with her poetically political song "My Strange Nation," which paved the way for her most recent release, The Gospel Truth, an exploration of religious ambiguity that has brought Werner more of the admiration that she has consistently garnered throughout her accomplished career.