suzanne vallie
After a hard spell, heartbroken and drifting, Suzanne Vallie aimed to make a driving record rich with sympathy, high romance, and dedicated to the magic of good-timing. Other themes on the album include dogs, surfers, and the supernatural.
On stage, Vallie is known for her improvised storytelling and lyrics. While on tour opening for Big Thief with The Range of Light Wilderness, bandmates called on her to make-up stories during onstage repairs.
The bulk of Love Lives Where Rules Die was live-tracked over five days in a wooden church with an analog signal flow, building a warm, moment-in-time atmosphere.
Love Lives... opens with “Ocean Cliff Drive.” Vallie sings of driving on the winding cliff side of Highway 1, blinded by fog and rain, all the same singing, “Honey, I can't see the road ahead of me, but I’m coming.”
The party anthems “Morro Bay” and “High With You” celebrate friendship and the delicious urge for fun with Springsteen length lyric sheets. For Vallie, recording the rowdy sing-along "High With You" was also a high point in the making of Love Lives Where Rules Die. “It was midnight. We were real loose. Everybody got a tambourine!”
Produced by Rob Shelton (Luke Temple), the album features Blake Kennedy (The Range of Light Wilderness), Carly Bond (Meernaa), Doug Stuart (Brijean), Andrew Maguire (Mirah, Vetiver) with contributions from Edwin Huizinga (Acronym, Dark Watchers), and singers Paul Spring, Emily Ritz (Yesway), and Molly Sarle´ (Mountain Man).
Suzanne Vallie lives in Big Sur, California.