Ben Suchy

Artist Information

Biography

Note: please see "upcoming shows" link below for Gigs.

North Dakota based Ben Suchy performs solo "Stomp-Grass" or with his 3-4 piece band. His solo show is borderline one-man band. Full of stomping foot percussion, electro-harmonica, flat-pick, finger-style guitar and lap slide banjitar it’s a site to see. This music can sway anywhere from Blues-Folk like John Prine, or G Love to pounding rhythms like Ben Harper and Xavier Rudd. His band performs roots-rock music that embraces folk, Americana, blues, and rock while adding danceable grooves and rhythms to the sounds foundation. Suchy is a multi-instrumentalist and a fantastic songwriter with deep lyrics and music to dig through.

Suchy's songs have been applauded by the Minnesota Folk Festival and Walnut Valley Folk Festival. In 2011 he was a New Folk Finalist at the Kerrville Folk Festival and then returned in the Fall for their Wine and Music Fest. He has performed at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, Grassroots Festivals in NY and NC, Sioux River Folk Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and the National Music Museum. Suchy has consistently gigged and toured throughout the US for the past 10 years. He has shared stages with such elites as: Ben Taylor Band, David Lindley and Wally Ingram, Donna the Buffalo, Los Lobos, EOTO, The Donnas, Peter Ostroushko, That 1 Guy, Heatbox, Gypsyfoot, Jon Wayne and the Pain, Natty Nation, Dave Moore, and many more.

Instrumentation

Discography

Head For Home 2004
Fly Fishing 2006
Moth to the Flame 2009

Official Website

http://www.reverbnation.com/bensuchy

Links

• Facebook
• MySpace
• UPCOMING SHOWS
• Buy "Moth to the Flame" here!!!
• BUY "FLY FISHING" by Ben Suchy here!!!
• MORE VIDEOS
• BUY "HEAD FOR HOME" by Ben Suchy here!!!

Audio

• 2 birds
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• some kinda zen
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• clutter (solo premix)
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• head for home (solo premix)
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• Stay Strong
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• Zydafro
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• dirty bird
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• in my mind
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• Fresh New Start
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Lyrics

• dirty bird (fallen angel)
• in my mind
• Head For Home
• clutter
• some kind of zen
• searchin for answers
• sittin in my kitchen
• Fresh New Start

Video

dirty bird 2011

Blues Blues 4-27-12

Photo Gallery

Press

• various short quotes [+ Show ]
  

  “I received Ben Suchy’s CD Head For Home a week ago and absolutely love it: it’s getting played on t...“I received Ben Suchy’s CD Head For Home a week ago and absolutely love it: it’s getting played on the radio already! Keep the good stuff coming!” – Amalia Anderson, Music Director, KWLC Radio, Luther College, IA
  
  “Head For Home is a fresh CD, which easily keeps my attention and interest!” – Eelco Schilder, Folkworld Magazine (Europe)
  
  “When He played at the Fargo Folk Festival, his music took the audience to a place they did not want to come back from.” – Deb Jenkins, Great Heart Productions
  
  “Suchy plays the harmonica better than your grandpa and sounds as if he were born to breathe beauty into a lap-slide guitar.”-Missoula Independent
  
  “Suchy is an anomaly in the folk and blues world because of his genuine sound and his breadth of musical taste.”-Ryan Heinsius, Flagstaff Live
  
  “Ben Suchy’s Grapefruit Wine is perfect as it is” “If you’re hip to unfiltered talent and/or just good tunes, get this now.”-Bill Frost, SLC Weekly
  
  “Ben performed brilliantly for our event at Rice Eccles stadium" – Rochelle Beatty KSL News SLC, UT
  
  “Suchy is of a rare breed, joined only by the likes of visionaries like Conor Oberst” – Matt Perrine, River’s Edge, Bismarck, ND 2005
  
  "Head For Home" bevat weer een flinke portie zwaar verslavende folk, slide gitaarspel en vooral Blues. Ben Suchy is een geweldig slidegitarist
  – Rootstime, (Belgium)

Setlist

mostly originals and some covers such as Mason Jennings, John Prine, and G Love.

Basic Requirements

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