Kickstart Our Country Music | Cliff & Susan
After 7 years, we are so excited to bring this NEW COUNTRY MUSIC to you!
For as long as we can remember, music has been our passion and our life's work.
Seven years ago, we, Cliff and Susan, met on stage performing at a venue in Little Rock, Arkansas - Willy D's Rock & Roll Piano Bar.
We felt an immediate new musical journey brewing, compelling us to embark on a creative adventure. We immediately began performing together as a duo. Love happened and we had eloped in Vegas a year later!
Despite the demands of a bustling life as a touring duo, we couldn't resist the call. We invested our hearts and souls in creating “Fiddle & Keys”: a country album echoing our diverse musical influences and life experiences.
Music has always been our sanctuary in the whirlwind of life. As a married independent duo, we've performed for audiences worldwide with our piano, fiddle, and guitar performances. Our journey has been anything but conventional.
Late nights spent composing and arranging, balancing over 200 shows a year, a music festival, a music production company, and persevering through the challenges of the music industry.... Yet, your unwavering support has been our guiding light.
With each show and song, our bond with fans strengthened, and our vision crystalized: to craft great country music that resonates with every listener and brings happiness, connection, and fun to our live shows.
Your belief in us has transformed this vision into reality.
For “Fiddle & Keys,” we've melded our life stories and influences. Songs that reflect our lives, our love, and our dreams. We don't just love country music, we are country, it's our life, it's in our souls.
This album is a culmination of our lifelong dedication to music and your incredible support.
Now, as it's ready to soar, we invite you to join us in this exciting next new chapter.
Your support in launching this album in physical form means everything, and will allow us to:
- Launch the CDs, Vinyl and exciting new exclusive collectors items to you,
- Fund our next 3-song series with the award-winning artist, Erin Enderlin
- Produce music videos for at least 3 songs on the album, and
- Release our next songs and EPs as we head into 2024.
We have over 30 songs right now ready to record and release, but we need your help!
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🎵 THE MUSIC 🎵
The tracks we chose for our debut album include:
- Neon Dreams
- A Natural State
- Better Than a Country Song
- Fiddle & Keys
- Maybe You Should
- When I'm Feeling Lonely
- Drivin' Me Crazy
- A Song For Grandad
- If It's Worth Doing
- Ain't My Baby Grand
- Lonesome Cold as You
- High & Dry
FUN FACT: Cliff arranged, engineered, and produced 10 of the 12 songs on this album! (Album credits and details are all listed below.)
In addition to these 12 tracks, this Kickstarter campaign will feature exclusive bundles of merch, handcrafted items, and Susan's watercolor prints and paintings.
Years of work have led to this outpouring of our music into this album. I hope you'll join us on the journey of launching this album. Your support is what gives our music wings—together, let's bring these songs to life and into the world.
The album "Fiddle & Keys" is online, and we can't believe the response!
It's now time to bring you the physical CDs, Vinyls, music videos and more full band shows!
On October 6th, we dropped a single from the album, "Neon Dreams." Notably, since its release, the track has garnered over 30,000 Spotify streams and secured a spot in the UK iTunes Top 10 Country Songs chart.
The 12-song digital album dropped on October 27, 2023 and reached #39 in less than 24 hours on the Apple Music U.S. Country Albums Charts.
We have a ton of momentum, and are so excited about the overwhelming response to this album!
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💰 FUNDING 💰
What does it take to make an album like this? Well, a lot! 😳
In this case, financially speaking, it takes far more than what this campaign goal is asking.
For those interested, a budget for a mid-level album, artwork, merch, and marketing typically ranges from 50-100k, normally fronted by a band's label, which they must pay back through album sales and touring.
Not being signed to a label, we have a more challenging path by releasing our music independently under our private label, Big Red Dog Productions.
That means we, alone, are responsible for funding our music, making every last detail come together, and promoting it. It's honestly a lot of responsibility! 😅
We value being transparent and want you to know the challenges we face as independent musicians, and that we take massive pride in the TOTALLY AMAZING SUPPORT of y'all! We work our tails off, and we couldn't have kept going without your love and support all of these years.
✨❤️ YOUR SUPPORT MAKES THIS MUSIC POSSIBLE! ❤️✨
Besides writing the songs, it's taken us years to build our own studio, grow in our production, and find our unique sound that we know reflects who we are as a country music duo on and off stage.
The funds from this Kickstarter will go directly to recouping costs, paying for the production of the album, all the marketing to get it into the world, help us produce music videos, produce our next EP collaboration set to release this winter with award-winning artist, Erin Enderlin, release more singles and albums from us as we head into 2024, and ultimately giving you an incredible collector experience with these special perks and the public launch of the album!
🎁 THE REWARDS 🎁
Finally, the fun part! What's in it for you? We have focused on offering true collector items for a really immersive and memorable experience!
Check out the sweet packages we put together for you below and with more details on the right side of this page!
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Album Credits
𝟏. 𝐍𝐞𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬
Lead Vocal: Cliff Prowse
Co-written by Cliff Prowse, Susan Erwin Prowse, Bree Ogden
Arranged & Produced: Cliff Prowse
Fiddle, Acoustic Gtr, Electric Gtr, Bass Gtr, Drums by Cliff Prowse
𝟐. 𝐀 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞
Lead Vocal: Cliff Prowse
Co-written by Cory Jackson, Cliff Prowse
Arranged & Produced: Cliff Prowse
Fiddle, Acoustic Gtr, Electric Gtr, Bass Guitar, Drums - Cliff Prowse
Keys - Susan Erwin Prowse
𝟑. 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠
Lead Vocal: Cliff Prowse
Co-written by Cliff Prowse, Bobby Cockerham
Arranged & Produced by Cliff Prowse
Acoustic Gtr, Electric (slide) Gtr, Bass Gtr - Cliff Prowse
Drums - Stephen Bailey
Keys - Susan Erwin Prowse
𝟒. 𝐅𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞 & 𝐊𝐞𝐲𝐬
Vocal Duet: Cliff Prowse / Susan Erwin Prowse
Co-written by Cliff Prowse, Susan Erwin Prowse
Arranged & Produced by Cliff Prowse
Fiddle, Acoustic Gtr, Electric Gtr, Bass Gtr - Cliff Prowse
Keys - Susan Erwin Prowse, Andrew Frye
Drums - Cliff Aaron
𝟓. 𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝
Lead Vocal: Susan Erwin Prowse
Co-written by Gary Nicholson, Mike Reid, Taylor Hicks
Larry Beaird (Producer, Ac Gtr)
Eli Beaird (Bass)
Jim DeBlanc (Engineer)
Steve "Prez" Nathan (Piano)
Chad Cromwell (Percussion)
JT Corenflos (Electric Gtr)
Russ Pahl (Steel)
𝟔. 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈'𝐦 𝐅𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐲
Lead Vocal: Cliff Prowse
Co-written by Cliff Prowse, Cory Jackson
Arranged & Produced by Cliff Prowse
Acoustic Gtr, Electric Gtr, Bass, Drums by Cliff Prowse
𝟕. 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧' 𝐌𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐳𝐲
Lead Vocal: Cliff Prowse
Written by Philip Prowse (Cliff's dad) the year Cliff was born
Arranged & Produced by Cliff Prowse
Acoustic Gtr, Electric Gtr, Bass Guitar - Cliff Prowse
Drums - Cliff Aaron
Keys - Susan Erwin Prowse, Andrew Frye
𝟖. 𝐀 𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐝
Lead Vocal: Cliff Prowse
Written by Cliff Prowse
Arranged & Produced by Cliff Prowse
Fiddle, Resonator Gtr, Acoustic Gtr, Bass Gtr - Cliff Prowse
Drums - Stephen Bailey
Keys - Susan Erwin Prowse
𝟗. 𝐈𝐟 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐠
Lead Vocal: Cliff Prowse
Written by Cliff Prowse
Arranged & Produced by Cliff Prowse
Fiddle, Acoustic Gtr, Electric Gtr, Bass, Drums - Cliff Prowse
𝟏𝟎. 𝐀𝐢𝐧'𝐭 𝐌𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝
Lead Vocal: Susan Erwin Prowse
Co-written by Brett James, James Slater
Larry Beaird (Producer, Ac Gtr)
Eli Beaird (Bass)
Jim DeBlanc (Engineer)
Steve "Prez" Nathan (Piano)
Chad Cromwell (Percussion)
JT Corenflos (Electric Gtr)
Russ Pahl (Steel)
𝟏𝟏. 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐘𝐨𝐮
Lead Vocal: Cliff Prowse
Co-written by Cliff Prowse, Aaron Farris
Arranged & Produced by Cliff Prowse
Fiddle, Acoustic Gtr, Electric Gtr, Bass Gtr, Drums - Cliff Prowse
Keys - Susan Erwin Prowse
𝟏𝟐. 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 & 𝐃𝐫𝐲
Lead Vocal: Susan Erwin Prowse
Co-written by Cliff Prowse, Susan Erwin Prowse
Arranged & Produced by Cliff Prowse
Fiddle, Acoustic Gtr, Electric Gtr, Bass Gtr, Drums - Cliff Prowse
Keys - Susan Erwin Prowse