Stix Stonz and the Skeleton Bonz creates music that lives somewhere between memory and myth—melodic, atmospheric, and quietly cinematic.

These tracks are pieces of a bigger picture that’s still coming into focus.

The Ritchie Ritch Project is a collaborative recording venture created to honor a lifetime of music, friendships, and the artists who shaped the soundtrack of that journey. Founded by veteran songwriter and musician Ritchie Ritch, the project brings together performers he has worked with across decades — spanning country, rock, bluegrass, Americana, roots, and acoustic styles — to record original songs and well-loved covers with the people who inspired them.

At its heart, the project is a musical time capsule: a chance to capture the creativity and camaraderie of artists whose paths have crossed over the years, before any more voices fade away. Each song features unique combinations of musicians, vocalists, and producers — sometimes reuniting friends, sometimes pairing unexpected collaborators, always with the goal of making something emotionally honest and musically timeless.

"Vocalist Solitaire Miles comes out of the Patsy Cline tradition. She sings Western swing material with warm highs and holds her lows neatly. There's a jazziness about Miles's phrasing, but she holds fast to a sound reminiscent of roadside bars where just three people are left near closing at the pinball machine. Solid accompaniment by jazz-influenced sax, fiddle, guitar, slide guitar, piano, bass and drums.  I'm a Fool to Care says it all.  Same goes for I'll Never Be Free."  Wall Street Journal
 
"Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas includes some of Chicago's best Jazz and Country players.  The group is pure Cowboy Jazz, and Miles adds a lively vocal style that brings to mind a winning blend of Patsy Cline and Billie Holiday. " - Downbeat Magazine
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"Savvy souls know there's a big difference between Country music and Western music. Western Swing band Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas were rightfully  honored in Fort Worth at the Academy of Western Artists' 20th annual Will Rogers Awards for 'Best Western Swing Song'" - Billboard Magazine
 
"Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas is a new album of Western Swing which  is popular with many folks,  and I do think this group does it very well,  it's a lovely album." -Marie Crichton BBC Radio
 

"You can't listen to western swing and not smile, it's impossible not to smile, it's feel good music.  Her voice is wonderful, what an instrument." - Michael Feldman, NPR

 

"Solitaire Miles may be best known for jazz, but the vocalist is on a new adventure involving Western Swing leading Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas.  The Academy of Western Artists awarded the band with Western swing song of the year. " 

- Jessi Virtusio, Chicago Tribune

 

"In her home base of Chicago Solitaire Miles boasts an avid following as a singer equally at home with jazz and swing. Given that combination of styles, it’s no surprise—but an unexpected delight—to hear what she can do with western swing, which is not all that far removed from what she has been doing for years now. In her guise as Susie Blue, with her band (many of them her regular bandmates) billed as The Lonesome Fellas, she deploys her warm, sultry voice on choice material, strictly top drawer fare, from some of the most important songwriters in western swing history..."  David McGee, Deep Roots Magazine

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