Atlanta Native & Epic Records Artist Susan Haynes to Release Debut Album Digitally Three Months Before Instore Date

Atlanta Native & Epic Records Artist Susan Haynes to Release Debut Album Digitally Three Months Before Instore Date

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- With the growing success of her current single, "Drinkin' In My Sunday Dress," Epic Nashville will digitally release Susan Haynes' debut album, Crooked Little Heart, on February 14. The album will release in brick & mortar stores on May 2.

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Produced by Dann Huff (Faith Hill, American Idol's Carrie Underwood) and Mark Wright (Gretchen Wilson, Brooks & Dunn), the digital release will offer all eleven songs on the hard CD and will be available wherever digital music is sold, such as such as Sony Connect, iTunes, Rhapsody, Walmart.com, Napster, Yahoo! Music, MSN, etc.

"This is a different approach designed to take advantage of in-the-moment marketing opportunities," says Sony Nashville Sr. VP Sales Dale Libby. "These include radio tour performances, early airplay surrounding Susan's single, press and, in some cases, TV appearances prior to physical release. She can now say, 'If you like what you have just heard, my album is available right now in the dot com space.' This is another impression building block that helps bring the artist and their project to the physical marketplace and generates excitement. This is by no means a replacement."

Crooked Little Heart is truly an insight into who Susan Haynes is -- a spirited Southern (born and raised in Atlanta) woman with a lot of intelligence, determination, openness and strength, with an amazing sense of humor.

At thirty-three, Susan was able to take an honest account of her life and openly share the highs and lows with the wisdom that comes from hindsight. The result is Crooked Little Heart, an album that delves into themes of whole- hearted love and heartbreak, resisting temptation and giving in, strength and vulnerability, regret and appreciation. Writing five of the eleven songs on her CD, Susan's lyrics are at once tangible and relatable, personal and universal.

Born and raised in Atlanta, Susan grew up in the Buckhead area and attended Lovett High School. After graduating, she moved to Nashville to attend Vanderbilt University and signed with Sony Music in 2003. Her parents, noted attorney Barney Haynes and wife Susan, still live in the Atlanta area.

Sony Music Nashville is a division of Sony BMG Entertainment and home to the country music division of Columbia Records and Epic Records. What began as the CBS presence in country music in 1962 with artists such as Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins and Barbara Mandrell is now part of an international company that consistently stretches the boundaries of country music while honoring and preserving its roots. In the past few years, Sony Music Nashville has been at the forefront of the industry with the breakthrough successes of the Gretchen Wilson, Miranda Lambert, Dixie Chicks and Montgomery Gentry and the reintroduction of veteran hitmakers Van Zant and Rodney Crowell.

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CONTACT: Amy Willis of Sony Music Nashville, +1-615-858-1316, or
amy.willis@sonybmg.com

Web site: http://www.susanhaynesmusic.com/
http://www.susanhaynes.com/

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