Songs for Autumn ~ Falling Leaves in “Rattle My Cage Little Birdie” and “I Can’t Get Over You”

Linda Rondstadt’s Last Album – “Adieu False Heart” 2006

In working on a new set of songs this year, we started re-visiting Linda Rondstadt’s last studio album “Adieu False Heart” from 2006.  On this project, Linda collaborated with New Orleans artist Ann Savoy, curating a spooky old-time, Cajun sound.  For Linda, as it turned out, this was her final album as a singer, as Parkinson’s took her voice a few years later.

The album was nominated for a Grammy in 2006 for Best Traditional Folk Album.  Read More About Adieu False Heart

The album is hauntingly beautiful, with Linda and Ann’s combined voices in gorgeous two-part harmony.  Two of the three songs we have been developing from this album are below:  “Rattle My Cage Little Birdie” by Appalachian writer Chas Justus, and Julie Miller’s devastating song “I Can’t Get Over You.”  I offer these now for their poetic imagery of falling leaves and the changing season.  In keeping with our ensemble’s new show called “Diamonds in The Rough: Great Songs By Great Song Writers,”  these little-known songs evoke powerful images and moods of heartbreak, longing and sadness.

Enjoy these gorgeous tracks as we contemplate the onset of another season changing and bringing our world into a time of evolution and, hopefully, reparation, healing and harmony.

RATTLE MY CAGE LITTLE BIRDIE
Chas Justus

Won’t you rattle my cage little birdie
Won’t you come to me and sing your happy song
Make me feel I’m not trapped forever
Make these winter days seem not so long

Won’t you rattle my cage little birdie
Won’t you come to my window if you can
You’re the only one seems could ever free me
You’re the only one that seems to understand

That nothing in this world seems to please me
No reason to even ask me why
And if you see me looking like I’m dreaming
I’m dreaming that I’m strong enough to fly.

All the leaves on the trees they are falling
I can feel the seasons growing cold
Outside another day is calling
Outside another day unfolds.

I CAN’T GET OVER YOU
Julie Miller

I’ve been trying for a long long time
But no matter what I do
When I turn to leave my heart stays behind
‘Cause I can’t get over you

I keep moving on, running hard and fast
But everywhere that I run to
I’m just standing still living in the past
‘Cause I can’t get over you

If memories were like the leaves that fall
The wind would have carried them from my mind
The seasons pass but they never change
A broken heart can’t keep time

I have watched as colors faded in the sun
The colors of my love stay true
I’ve been letting go now
I’m not holding on
I just can’t get over you

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And as always, thanks for reading! 
Love and Blessings,

Susie

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Award-winning recording artist, Broadway singer, journalist, educator and critically-acclaimed powerhouse vocalist, Susie Glaze has been called “one of the most beautiful voices in bluegrass and folk music today” by Roz Larman of KPFK’s Folk Scene.  LA Weekly voted her ensemble Best New Folk in their Best of LA Weekly for 2019, calling Susie “an incomparable vocalist.”  “A flat out superb vocalist… Glaze delivers warm, amber-toned vocals that explore the psychic depth of a lyric with deft acuity and technical perfection.”  As an educator, Susie has lectured at USC Thornton School of Music and Cal State Northridge on “Balladry to Bluegrass,” illuminating the historical path of ancient folk forms in the United Kingdom to the United States via immigration into the mountains of Appalachia.  Susie has taught workshops since 2018 at California music camps RiverTunes and Vocáli Voice Camp.  She is a current specialist in performance and historian on the work of American folk music icon, Jean Ritchie.  Susie now offers private voice coaching online via the Zoom platform.   www.susieglaze.com