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Newcastle singer, fiddle player and songwriter Steel City Sue is releasing her debut album ‘Boom Town’ via Bandcamp 1 September 2018. Boom Town is a collection of songs written in and about the coal country of Newcastle and the Hunter Valley and was recorded with US touring act Truckstop Honeymoon at their Ninth Ward Pickin’ Parlor in Lawrence Kansas USA. Steel City Sue, also known as Su Morley, met the troubadour songwriters Mike and Katie West of Truckstop Honeymoon, at the Woodford Folk Festival in the early 2000s and was more recently encouraged by them to record some of her original songs - which became Boom Town. Mike and Katie West both play on the album. “Mike has a huge musical range, and his playing and production on the album was really sensitive to the array of feels in my songs – from the rootsy fiddle-driven ones, and the songwriter-folk tracks through to the more electric arrangements.” said Morley. The album Boom Town is grounded in link between the coal fields of