When COVID-19 forced much of the world into a months-long shutdown, Nashville's music community was gravely impacted. Tours were halted. Recording sessions were scrapped. And initially, writing sessions were canceled. Americana singer/songwriter Suzie Brown was one of countless thousands of artists who watched their artistic plans shift during the pandemic. The difference is Brown, 47, a cardiologist specializing in heart transplants at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, also had to worry about her day job killing her. (continued)
Suzie Brown has been on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic for a year as a cardiologist at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Brown specializes in advanced heart failure and heart transplantation. The work entails confronting mortality on a daily basis with her patients and with Covid-19, that risk has heightened.
“I love everything about you Suzie Brown. You’re wearing a lot of hats and you’re wearing them all very well.” - Gayle King, CBS This Morning
Music is a great outlet for folks in stressful jobs, but it rarely survives outside of a garage or home studio. Singer-songwriter Suzie Brown is a wonderful exception.
In “Don’t Miss Too Much,” Brown writes to her children about the fear she feels as a mother. The meticulous skills necessary for surgery are present in her music, too. Brown’s attention to detail in her lyrics and arrangements make for an immersive, emotive listen.
Bifurcation in and of itself isn’t a rarity, but Suzie Brown’s story is a head-turner. Working as a part-time cardiologist at Nashville’s Vanderbilt, the singer-songwriter pursues a career in folk artistry during her off-time.
Suzie Brown has some pretty cool bullet points on her résumé. This multi-hyphenate is not only a cardiologist and TEDMED speaker, she’s also a up-and-coming Americana star. - John Soltes
The singing doctor allows that most of her medical colleagues don’t know the “dirty little secret” that she has the voice of an angel and can play a good guitar.
Brown offers up a rather intimate portrayal of motherhood, but even for someone without kids, the messages and thread lines are profound and commanding. - Jason Scott
Nashville singer-songwriter Suzie Brown evokes a candid country and folk sound that echoes with a forceful emotional intensity.
Brown’s style is a touch of Folk, a touch of Americana mixed with a light country feel and rockabilly...I strongly suggest you seek this one, especially if you are sick of the same old country that is played on the radio today.
If all cardiologists understood the human heart as well as Suzie Brown does in her music, we could save a lot more lives.
Nashville’s Suzie Brown is a name you’re most likely at least a bit familiar with. She’s a singer, songwriter, Harvard-educated cardiologist, mother, and, until recently, a fellow-215er
Suzie Brown brings a beautiful voice and genre-mixing prowess to Almost There...Brown’s unadorned, beautiful alto voice helps keep consistency throughout the diversity of the album.
(Almost There) sounds like the sun-soaked product of a front porch jam session. - Emily Maxwell
About the song 28 Days, from 'Almost There': "This hauntingly beautiful ballad is surrounded on the album by a nice mix of catchy country pop songs that will get your feet tapping and body moving.
A cardiologist who turned to singing and songwriting just a few short years ago, Suzie Brown has made quite an impact and you can see just why when listening to this her second album.
The cardiologist turned singer-songwriter shines with heart-filled vocals on an album full of rootsy, laidback tracks.
Suzie Brown's latest album, "Almost There," gets its power from the tension between its catchy country-pop melodies and its unsatisfied alt-folk lyrics.
Almost There is more than an excellent follow-up to Heartstrings; it’s almost a reinvention of Suzie Brown herself. Brown and her sweet, twangy, acoustic style have matured.
Her achy-breaky lyrics and blues twang have made Brown a local favorite with serious national appeal.
Honey-voiced singer-songwriter Suzie Brown airs the pleasingly frilly, old-school country stylings on her debut album, Heartstrings.
Suzie Brown is a cardiologist AND a beautiful singer/songwriter. . .
But what I find truly inspiring about her is that after Harvard Medical School she had the courage and the self understanding to realize she didn’t need to play just one role in this life
Heartstrings (Freshie) doesn't sound like the work of someone so green. It's twangier than Brown's Montreal-via-Boston upbringing would suggest and more polished than her 2009 EP