2010: Emerging from a self-imposed hiatus, acclaimed singer-songwriter-guitarist Susan James is back—performing her own original music and working on a new album. James has been in the studio with her old friend Paul Lacques and his bandmates Shawn Nourse and Paul Marshall from the group, I See Hawks in L.A. “I couldn’t be more pleased with what we’re doing in the studio,” James says. “Paul and Paul sing harmony with me on some of these. The songs are these psychedelic country-folk songs, and they brought even more psychedelic country folk to it.”