The Blackeyed Susans - I Am A Singer

"A singer with no song to call my own"

Album: Spin the Bottle [4th album]
Genre: Chamber Pop, Folk Rock
Release: July 1997
Length: 3:57
Producer: Victor Van Vugt
Vocals: Rob Snarski
Label: HiGloss Records

Audio

Charts, Streams & Sales

Spotify: 8,000 +
YouTube Music: 450 +
ARIA Awards 1998 Nominee: Best Independent Release [album]

Details

• Originally the album came with a karoake disc featuring instrumental versions of each track
• Warren Ellis played with the band from 1992-1993. He would go on to have a successful career scoring films.
  
• 'Blackeyed Susans' is a slang term for a battered housewife. The members refer to themselves as 'Susans' possibly because the music industry can be a hard master. The band never received major commercial success and had to tour small venues relentlessly though they did open for Johnny Cash and Leonard Cohen.
  
• Some of the band members also played in Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
• The band won several awards in their native Australia including Best Male Vocalist at the 1991 West Australian Music Industry Awards.