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She may bill herself as the "MOM of Constant Sorrow," but the truth is, Sue Fabisch is more likely to make you laugh than cry. Somehow the singer/songwriter/MOM manages to balance it all - not always well, but usually with a sense of humor. Five months ago she added baby number three to her happy family which also includes three other children - a 3 year old, 6 year old and 40 year old.
Last year, Fabisch reinvented the hit song, "Man of Constant Sorrow," from the movie O'Brother Where Art Thou?. Her independent rendition, "MOM of Constant Sorrow," made it on to playlists at over 200 reporting country stations for 17 weeks. She also had a healthy 13 week run of the song's video on GAC and CMT Canada. "All this with no manager and no record label," the singing comic said. Bluegrass stations are set to pick up her domestic anthem in mid-September.
Self- dubbed "The Wal-Mart Woman", Fabisch is on a musical mission to liberate women from housework, to make dieting against the law and to insure freedom for America's breastfeeding mothers. Hop on her bandwagon by visiting her web site www.theMOM.net
by Susan Passi-Klaus - The Nashville City Paper
She may bill herself as the "MOM of Constant Sorrow," but the truth is, Sue Fabisch is more likely to make you laugh than cry. Somehow the singer/songwriter/MOM manages to balance it all - not always well, but usually with a sense of humor. Five months ago she added baby number three to her happy family which also includes three other children - a 3 year old, 6 year old and 40 year old.
Last year, Fabisch reinvented the hit song, "Man of Constant Sorrow," from the movie O'Brother Where Art Thou?. Her independent rendition, "MOM of Constant Sorrow," made it on to playlists at over 200 reporting country stations for 17 weeks. She also had a healthy 13 week run of the song's video on GAC and CMT Canada. "All this with no manager and no record label," the singing comic said. Bluegrass stations are set to pick up her domestic anthem in mid-September.
Self- dubbed "The Wal-Mart Woman", Fabisch is on a musical mission to liberate women from housework, to make dieting against the law and to insure freedom for America's breastfeeding mothers. Hop on her bandwagon by visiting her web site www.theMOM.net
by Susan Passi-Klaus - The Nashville City Paper
Rubbery cheese strips have spilled onto the deep blue carpet in the lounge at the NSAI offices. Jessica, 1 year old, is pulling her mother's CD out of its package and trying to stick it in her mouth. Steven who is four, has stopped waving his plastic yellow bat and started pulling at Mom's sleeve. In mid-sentence, Sue Fabisch leans over to receive the news from her son that he has to pee. Now.
As the woman behind "the MOM of Constant Sorrow", "Mommy, Mommy, Mommy" and other songs drawn from the travails of maternity, Fabisch might be suspected of having rented a couple of kids, scattered toys all over the place and otherwise tried to maintain her persona for the visiting media.
Not so, she insits after Steven's bathroom break. "This is my life. Seven years ago, I was taking myself very seriously: vocal lessons for $160 an hour, vocalizing before every performance, relaxing and breathing and getting into my zone. Now there is no zone. I never have time to warm up; I just sing and hope something comes out of my mouth. Even when I'm recording, the baby is in the vocal booth with me, either on the floor, or on my hip..."
If you've heard Fabisch's CD WalMart Woman, or pondered the bit of wisodn in her book, You Know You're A MOM of Constant Sorrow When..., or if you've got a calendar filled with PTA meetings and shelves stocked with Chef Boyardee, this story rings all too true. A onetime aspiring cabaret entertainer in NY, Fabisch moved her family to Nashville in 2000. they didn't know anybody here but had heard it was a decent place to raise kids and write songs.
Indeed, with three children - Danny 7, was too tied up with school to make the interview - clamoring for attention, Fabisch began coming up with material that splatters Kool-Aid across motherhood's idealized image. Dr. Demento has broadcast her songs, GAC has featured her videos and on May 8th, the day before Mother's Day - she'll perform two shows, in the Franklin Wal Mart parking lot, which in symbolic terms is like Mel Gison acting out The Passion in St. Peter's Square.
"I guess I've found my niche," she says. "I'm not going to singing in some sequined gown, pretending I'm Faith Hill. It's going to be my kids in the wings, and I'm saying 'Shut up! I'm about to go on!" And then Mommy starts to sing, and then I go back and change a poopy diaper. It's not glamorous...but it is a lot of fun."
Robert L. Doerschuk - The Nashville Scene
Rubbery cheese strips have spilled onto the deep blue carpet in the lounge at the NSAI offices. Jessica, 1 year old, is pulling her mother's CD out of its package and trying to stick it in her mouth. Steven who is four, has stopped waving his plastic yellow bat and started pulling at Mom's sleeve. In mid-sentence, Sue Fabisch leans over to receive the news from her son that he has to pee. Now.
As the woman behind "the MOM of Constant Sorrow", "Mommy, Mommy, Mommy" and other songs drawn from the travails of maternity, Fabisch might be suspected of having rented a couple of kids, scattered toys all over the place and otherwise tried to maintain her persona for the visiting media.
Not so, she insits after Steven's bathroom break. "This is my life. Seven years ago, I was taking myself very seriously: vocal lessons for $160 an hour, vocalizing before every performance, relaxing and breathing and getting into my zone. Now there is no zone. I never have time to warm up; I just sing and hope something comes out of my mouth. Even when I'm recording, the baby is in the vocal booth with me, either on the floor, or on my hip..."
If you've heard Fabisch's CD WalMart Woman, or pondered the bit of wisodn in her book, You Know You're A MOM of Constant Sorrow When..., or if you've got a calendar filled with PTA meetings and shelves stocked with Chef Boyardee, this story rings all too true. A onetime aspiring cabaret entertainer in NY, Fabisch moved her family to Nashville in 2000. they didn't know anybody here but had heard it was a decent place to raise kids and write songs.
Indeed, with three children - Danny 7, was too tied up with school to make the interview - clamoring for attention, Fabisch began coming up with material that splatters Kool-Aid across motherhood's idealized image. Dr. Demento has broadcast her songs, GAC has featured her videos and on May 8th, the day before Mother's Day - she'll perform two shows, in the Franklin Wal Mart parking lot, which in symbolic terms is like Mel Gison acting out The Passion in St. Peter's Square.
"I guess I've found my niche," she says. "I'm not going to singing in some sequined gown, pretending I'm Faith Hill. It's going to be my kids in the wings, and I'm saying 'Shut up! I'm about to go on!" And then Mommy starts to sing, and then I go back and change a poopy diaper. It's not glamorous...but it is a lot of fun."
Robert L. Doerschuk - The Nashville Scene
They say you should write what you know - and Sue Fabisch knows about being a mom. So the former cabaret singer and Nashville mother of three put her stresses, frustrations and joys into rib-tickling parodies and original songs like "The MOM of Constant Sorrow", "Wal-Mart Woman," and "The Kids Are Finally Asleep" on her CD called Wal-Mart Woman. She's even written a book, You Know You're a MOM of Constant Sorrow When... You can learn more about Sue at her website, www.theMOM.net - where you can also hear her latest tune, the Redneck Woman sendup, "White Trash Husband." - Country Weekly
They say you should write what you know - and Sue Fabisch knows about being a mom. So the former cabaret singer and Nashville mother of three put her stresses, frustrations and joys into rib-tickling parodies and original songs like "The MOM of Constant Sorrow", "Wal-Mart Woman," and "The Kids Are Finally Asleep" on her CD called Wal-Mart Woman. She's even written a book, You Know You're a MOM of Constant Sorrow When... You can learn more about Sue at her website, www.theMOM.net - where you can also hear her latest tune, the Redneck Woman sendup, "White Trash Husband." - Country Weekly
Discography
"Soccer Mom" on the radio NOW!
"Music 4 Mommies" in stores NATIONWIDE March 21
"The MOM of Constant Sorrow" Sept 02
"One Silent Night" Nov 03
"I Love These Carbs" Feb 04
"White Trash Husband" Aug 04
"Flu Virus" Oct 04
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Bio
INTRODUCING - - MUSIC 4 MOMMIES
Songs for the most Desperate of Housewives!
Singer-songwriter Sue Fabisch is at it again! (pronounced Fay-bish) With three young kids, Sue found comedy in being a mother and has written, performed and produced 10 new original songs for her latest mom-inspired creation - Music 4 Mommies - Volume 1 - Songs to Make Your Laugh! The first CD from Sue's own label, Mommy Music Inc, will be in stores nationwide on March 21, 2006
The first single, "Soccer Mom" will hit the mark with any mom who schleps to and from soccer practice, cheers at the games and forgets that it is her turn to be "snack mom." Other titles on this first CD include "The Kids Are Finally Asleep," "From Beer to Maternity" and "If I’m Working My Butt Off, Then Why Is It Still So Big!" In all, "Songs to Make You Laugh" contains 10 comedy songs, 2 music videos and 1 sentimental song - a sneak peek at what is to come in Volume 2.
Music 4 Mommies is a new CD series designed by moms, for moms, with songs about MOMS! Every nine months a new CD will be "born." "This project is a labor of love – literally," says Sue Fabisch. "There are a lot of singer-songwriters out there that happen to be moms, but none of them are talking about the crazy part – the laundry, the lazy husband and the dirty diapers!"
Based in Nashville, Sue’s songs fit right in with today’s fastest growing genre of music – country. She lives in the same neighborhood as country superstars Faith Hill, Martina McBride and Wynonna – all mothers themselves. But only Sue has taken the everyday tasks of motherhood and turned them into musical mantras.
"I am really excited to have this first volume hit the shelves," says Sue. "I know that these songs with strike a chord with all moms and make them laugh. This is a CD they can listen to in the car while carpooling and not be afraid to let the kids listen."
Check out www.music4mommies.com and you can hear the CD’s first single "Soccer Mom." And more!
Mommy Music Inc. is a brand new record label based in Nashville, run by moms, with music 4 moms and about moms. It's first release in Sept 2005 was "The Avon Lady Album", a 5 song CD of motivational tunes being marketed by Avon Products Inc to their 3 million representatives worldwide.
Brown Bear Music Marketing is a full service music marketing company based in Nashville. Their exclusive agreement with Bayside Distribution, allows Brown Bear to supply Americana, Country and Bluegrass albums nationwide to stores such as WalMart, Borders and Best Buy.
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