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Jazz Singer Solitaire Miles Goes Blue and Lonesome

album art by Solitaire Miles

You might associate "Western swing" with Texas dancehalls and Oklahoma honky-tonks. But a great new take on the classic American idiom comes from a Chicago jazz singer. GLT's Bruce Bergethon skyped Solitaire Miles to talk about her new CD, "Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas."