Hot Soup
Sue Trainor's Recordings

Sue Trainor is a performing songwriter, best known for full-contact, social satire in her adult shows and imaginative musical play in her children's performances.

Entrees

  • Under Tables, Out Back Doors -- 1999 "Best Album for Children" Wammie Award winner and 1999 Parents' Choice "Recommended" award. Sue's first kids album celebrates humor, creativity, and imagination in a musically engaging collection of participatory songs and stories. "Gaggles of giggles" said The Washington Post. Reviews

  • In A Closeup -- Sue's solo album is chock-full of parody, satire, and just plain fun. The Washington Post called it "Trainor's Reverent Poke at Folk". Reviews

  • Semerwater (by Cornucopia) -- A collection of original ballads, chanteys, and pub songs by the British-American quartet Cornucopia, to which Sue belonged for five years. Reviews

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Under Tables, Out Back Doors
Under Tables
[ Cover Art: Christina Muir ]
[ Graphic Design: JoAnn Juskus Design ]
[ Photo: James Ferry Photography ]
  • Listen Morning Rhythms
  • Listen The Bear Missed the Train
  • Just Act Naturally
  • Alligator Jump
  • The Person Next To You
  • Listen Purple Giraffe
  • What If . . .
  • Listen Chesapeake
  • Tiddalick the Frog
  • Polka Peek-a-Boo
  • Listen Whispers in Your Pillow
Sue Trainor was named 1999 "Best New Artist" by the Children's Music Web. Her first children's album -- Under Tables, Out Back Doors -- earned Oppenheim Toy Portfolio "Plantinum" and Parents' Choice "Recommended" honors, and won the 1999 Wammie Award (Washington Area Music Association) as "Best Album" for kids. She has twice been awarded Wammies as "Best Vocalist" for kids.

Sue's first recording for kids was produced by GRAMMY nominee Marcy Marxer. Most of the songs are original and feature a wide range of musical styles (including Old Timey, Dixieland, and even a Polka!). In addition to the smooth harmonies of Hot Soup, musicians on the album include Bruce Molsky (fiddle), Cathy Fink (banjo), Marcy Marxer (hammered dulcimer, mandolin, percussion), Karl Kalbaugh (didgeridoo), "Big" Joe Maher (drums), John Previti (bass), John Cocuzzi (piano and vibes), the University Park Elementary School Fourth Grade Singers, and many more! Recommended for ages 4 to 7.


In a Closeup
In a Closeup
[ Photo: Joy Savage ]
  • The Murderous Toy
  • Distant Thunder
  • Listen Golfing with Hares
  • Roseville Fair, Part II
  • Listen Dance in Coal Canyon
  • A Man of Good Intent
  • In a Closeup
  • Listen Healthy Life
  • Chainsaw
  • The Mistress
  • Sludge Train
  • Open Mike Blues
"Trainor delivers some dynamite parodies in an album with a quiet, sparsley arranged quality" (Victory Review). Sue is joined by guest musicians Grace Griffith, Micah Solomon, Bob Ortiz, Tom Scullen, Pam Cardullo, and John Gorozdos.

Semerwater
(with Cornucopia)
Semerwater
[ Photo: Julian Calder ]
Cassette tape format only.
  • Flamborough Head
  • The Last Gull
  • Sailing on the Tide
  • Dungarvin Oak
  • Wander the Streets
  • Our Town
  • Grand Pubs of Yorkshire
  • Semerwater
  • Wallflower
  • Show a Leg
  • The Mowing Song
  • Lamplady
Original songs "traditional to the bone, steeped in romantic lore, outfitted with guitars, banjo, recorder, mandolin, bouzouki, and pennywhistle, and sung . . . with plenty of old-fashioned gusto" (The Washington Post). Peter Benson was the principle writer and lead vocalist in Cornucopia, joined by Sue, John Gorozdos, and John Jacobs.

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