Suzie Vinnick is pleased to release her seventh
solo album, Fall Back Home. Over a storied career now
spanning three decades, Suzie has earned 10 Maple
Blues Awards, three Juno nominations, two wins in the
prestigious International Songwriting Competition, and
major peer respect.

Fall Back Home reaffirms Vinnick’s mastery of a wide
range of musical styles. The gospel-tinged positive
anthem Lift You Up fits seamlessly alongside the
rockin’ blues of Salt & Pepper and the gentle folk/
roots ballads City & Skies and Talk To Me, and the
album is given consistency via the emotional eloquence
of Suzie’s songwriting and her strong, warm vocals.

Add in the crisp production of Danny Greenspoon and
instrumental, vocal and writing contributions from a
genuine A-list of Canadian roots music artists and you
have a compelling and well-curated collection of songs
demanding and rewarding your attention.

The choice of album title (a lyric from Talk To Me, a
song she co-wrote with Matt Andersen) alludes to this
eclectic approach. “I do cross over genres and I love all
sorts of music so I consider that my home. There’s also a
double meaning to the title, in that it references coming
back home to a comfortable and safe place through the
pandemic,” Suzie explains.

She adds that “I am an artist who loves a lot of different
musical styles and singing in many different styles. I think
of someone like Bonnie Raitt who dips her toes in a lot of
places but still has a cohesiveness to her work and what
she presents. I aspire to that.”

A core band assembled at noted Toronto studio
Canterbury Music Company to lay down the bed
tracks for most of the material on Fall Back Home,
with remote recording from various studios around the
continent employed for further instrumentation.

The elite group of renowned Canadian roots musicians
recruited include guitar aces Kevin Breit, Colin
Linden, Steve Dawson, Bill Henderson, and Paul Pigat,
harmonica players Roly Platt and Carlos del Junco,
drummers Davide Di Renzo and Gary Craig, bassists
Russ Boswell and Alec Fraser, keyboard players
Jesse O’Brien and Mark Lalama and guest vocalists
Matt Andersen, Gwen Swick, Michael Biggar and
Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar.