Susan Cowsill’s decades-long career stretches from her childhood with The Cowsills, the family band that notched several national hits in the late ’60s, to fondly remembered local roots-rock group, the Continental Drifters.
Susan got her start at the tender age of 7, singing in her family’s pop-rock band. Between 1967 and 1970, The Cowsills had million-selling top 10 hit singles like “Hair,” “Indian Lake,” “We Can Fly,” and “The Rain, the Park and Other Things” (known as the “I Love the Flower Girl” song.)
The Cowsills were featured on the Ed Sullivan Show, headlined in Vegas, starred in a series of famous milk commercials and had their own primetime TV special in 1968. They sang the theme to "Love American Style". A new documentary about the Cowsills called Family Band is scheduled for a fall release.
As the kid singer in The Cowsills, the prototype for TV’s "Partridge Family", she survived early fame and fortune that disappeared as fast as it came. She also made it through Katrina, even though her brother drowned in the storm and she lost almost everything, including all her family memorabilia dating back generations.
She’s now fronting the Susan Cowsill Band, 44 years after she sang with her family, and decades after first as a back-up singer and later with the ’90s indie, almost-supergroup, the Continental Drifters.
Susan's just released, second solo cd “Lighthouse,” is a concept album about the losses in her life and finding her way home. Longtime friend Jackson Browne is among the artists singing back-up on the album. In addition, one of the songs from the cd, “Crescent City Snow”, became the unofficial anthem for Hurricane Katrina in her adopted hometown of New Orleans.
Currently touring in support of her newest cd, Susan still performs occasionally with her remaining brothers (John is the drummer for the Beach Boys) as the Cowsills.
