ERIN MCKEOWN JOINS SUSAN MCKEOWN (NO RELATION) ON THE LATTER'S NEW ALBUM 'BELONG' (NOV 13 / HIBERNIAN MUSIC) FOR AMERICANA SONG "FALLEN ANGEL"

ERIN ON SUSAN: "ONE OF THOSE VOICES THAT JUST BORES A HOLE RIGHT THROUGH YOU"

Acclaimed artist Erin McKeown plays guitar on "Fallen Angel" from GRAMMY-winner Susan McKeown's new album 'Belong,' out November 13 on Hibernian Music. Erin raves about Susan's singing, "Susan has one of those voices that just bores a hole right through you. If you've ever seen her live, the look in her eye as she sings lets you know she is possessed by a force beyond explaining. It's deep and powerful and I don't know another sound like it."

New Yorkers will have a chance to see her perform at the Living Room November 7, which will be broadcast by SIRIUS XM The Loft.

Erin says, "'Fallen Angel' is such a clever song and I wanted to match Susan's writing and vocal with a guitar solo that rides the same line between playful and accusatory." Susan describes the Americana song as "a whimsical look at how one’s inner demons can haunt a relationship."

Erin jokes, "We've known each other for years, and after all we are 'cousins,' we think, way back in Ireland."

GRAMMY AWARD-WINNER SUSAN MCKEOWN MARKS HALF HER LIFE IN THE STATES WITH 'BELONG,' OUT NOV. 13 MINING AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC IN TELLING HER STORY

ERIN MCKEOWN, WOOD'S JAMES MADDOCK, MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST DIRK POWELL, AND SINGER-SONGWRITER DECLAN O'ROURKE JOIN MCKEOWN ON NEW ALBUM

Susan McKeown – the creatively restless GRAMMY Award-winning and BBC Award-nominated vocalist – is readying 'Belong' for November 13 release. The Irish-born singer has finally come home, marking half of her life in the States with an exploration of American roots-derived music that delves deeply into matters of the heart.

Opening with 'On the Bridge to Williamsburg,' a duet with Irish singer-songwriter Declan O'Rourke, 'Belong' is Susan at her most personal, charting intimate details of relationships, plotting their trajectories, examining the shards and remnants as though on an archaeological excavation. James Maddock (from Wood) and banjo and accordion player Dirk Powell (Irma Thomas, The Raconteurs, Joan Baez) join Susan for 'Everything We Had Was Good,' a break-up song about ending well. 'The Cure for Me' was in part inspired by lines from 'Night Ferry,' Seamus Heaney's elegy for poet Robert Lowell. Erin McKeown guests on 'Fallen Angel.'

In a distinguished career, McKeown has performed with Pete Seeger, Natalie Merchant, Linda Thompson, Billy Bragg, Arlo Guthrie and The Klezmatics. McKeown has recorded mariachi music, klezmer music, African music, Celtic music, and contemporary songwriting. She won a GRAMMY for 'Wonder Wheel,' in collaboration with the Klezmatics on lyrics by Woody Guthrie. In 2010, she made 'Singing in the Dark,' a fascinating exploration of creativity and madness.

She has performed throughout Europe and North America including Glastonbury, The Edinburgh Festival, Carnegie Hall and Disney Hall. In a concert review, Rolling Stone said, "McKeown grabbed both song and audience by the throat, dragged them through heaven and hell and back again, and left the stage to the loudest applause heard all evening."