Susan Cowsill is usually associated with two cities: Newport, Rhode Island, the original home of her singing family, and New Orleans, her home for the past two decades. But some of the time between was spent in Los Angeles, where she moved with the rest of the Cowsills in the late ’60s. She was there as a young teenager when the fabled Laurel Canyon singer-songwriter scene was heating up, and it’s informed her own music ever since.

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