Echoes May CD of the Month: Counting Sunsets by SUSS
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We’ve been following the ambient country band SUSS from their beginning in 2016. The trio includes guitarist Pat Irwin, who was a member of the B-52s and The Raybeats and has scored several movies and TV shows including, Nurse Jackie, the Dexter sequels and prequels, and on a different note, SpongeBob SquarePants. Guitarist Bob Holmes was a member of Rubber Rodeo. Pedal steel guitarist Jonathan Gregg doesn’t have as long of a CV, but it’s his pedal steel that weaves the band together. Their new album is Counting Sunsets and it’s the Echoes CD of the Month for May. SUSS goes into deep ambient terrain. Join us when we look west to Counting Sunsets by SUSS on Echoes from PRX.
Read John Diliberto’s review of Counting Sunsets
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Weekend, May 9-10, 2026 – Program 26-18A CD of the Month: Counting Sunsets by SUSS |
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| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:00 | Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen | Jammin’ with Buddha | Unfolding Skies |
| 0:06:00 | SUSS | Sunset I | Counting Sunsets |
| 0:09:58 | Felsmann + Tiley | Always You (feat. Woodes) | Protomensch |
| 0:12:55 | Vin Downes & Tom Eaton | The Weight of Your Whisper | Until the Light Was Gone |
| 0:17:01 | Flea | Frailed | Honora |
| 0:29:30 | Deepspace | High Precision Hydrocleansing Protocols (excerpt) | Water Planets |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | SUSS | Sunset VI | Counting Sunsets |
| 0:34:58 | Hammock | The Unsetting Sun | The Second Coming Was a Moonrise |
| 0:41:38 | Morcheeba | Escape the Chaos | Escape the Chaos |
| 0:46:34 | break | ||
| 0:47:13 | SUSS | Sunset V | Counting Sunsets |
| 0:50:03 | Mara Katria feat. Modern English | Snow | Modern M |
| 0:54:38 | Aukai | Lure | Chambers |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Edgar Meyer | Degree of Separation | Edgar Meyer |
| 1:04:51 | Edgar Meyer | Interlude 3 | Edgar Meyer |
| 1:06:00 | SUSS | Sunset IV | Counting Sunsets |
| 1:11:09 | KARYYN | Mind Over Heart | Physics Universal Love Language |
| 1:14:58 | Jonny Fallout | The Pain and the Love (Forgotten) | Cybertherial II |
| 1:19:58 | STS9 | Glass | Human Dream |
| 1:23:54 | Ladytron | Sing | Paradises |
| 1:29:30 | Jim Kimo West and Michael Whalen | Malibu Breeze (excerpt) | Two Shores |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | SUSS | Sunset II | Counting Sunsets |
| 1:33:02 | Tim Motzer | Six Chords for Percy | Grabbing on to Life |
| 1:37:33 | Falling You | Constellations | Metanoia |
| 1:44:25 | break | ||
| 1:45:15 | Jaymie Rose Hennegan | Spatial Shift | Desert Goddess |
| 1:52:39 | SUSS | Sunset X | Counting Sunsets |
Keyboardist Tom Eaton and guitarist Vin Downes are veterans of work with Will Ackerman and are two thirds of their trio with trumpeter Jeff Oster. They have an album of ambient duets called Until the Light Was Gone. It shines on the next Echoes with John Diliberto from PRX.
| Start Time | Artist | Song Title | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| Echoes Weekend, May 9-10, 2026 – Program 2618B | |||
| First Half Hour | |||
| 0:01:01 | Ancient Future | East of the Sun – Studio Version | Purple Spirits |
| 0:06:00 | Felsmann + Tiley | Memory | Protomensch |
| 0:08:54 | Janel Leppin | Zonk | Slowly Melting |
| 0:12:40 | Hammock | Chemicals Make You Small (featuring The Flaming Lips) | The Second Coming Was a Moonrise |
| 0:18:09 | Pan•American | Heaven’s Waiting Room | Fly the Ocean in a Silver Plane |
| 0:21:15 | SUSS | Sunset I | Counting Sunsets |
| 0:24:17 | Eric Hilton | Akasha | A Sky So Close |
| 0:29:30 | Message to Bears | Half Light (excerpt) | Tired Eyes Waking Heart |
| Second Half Hour | |||
| 0:30:00 | Chronotope Project | Spirit Walk | Kaleidoscope |
| 0:34:25 | Kate Bush | Under Ice | Hounds of Love |
| 0:36:28 | Vin Downes & Tom Eaton | a sign | Until the Light Was Gone |
| 0:40:29 | break | ||
| 0:41:22 | Morcheeba | Escape The Chaos | Escape the Chaos |
| 0:45:52 | Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen | Unfolding Skies | Unfolding Skies |
| 0:59:00 | Lena Natalia | Afternoon in Oslo (excerpt) | The Time Before Us |
| Third Half Hour | |||
| 1:01:00 | Clannad | Merry-Go-Round | Banba |
| 1:06:00 | Jamie Rose Hennegan | Chasing the Desert Wind | Desert Goddess |
| 1:14:41 | Fields of Few | Sensory Systems On | Lights & Illusions |
| 1:21:10 | Ladytron | In Blood | Paradises |
| 1:25:47 | Mickey Hart | Udu Chant | Planet Drum |
| 1:29:30 | Immersion | A Long Way to Brooklyn (excerpt) | WTF??? |
| Fourth Half Hour | |||
| 1:30:00 | Will Ackerman | Nighttime in the Chapel | Positano Songs |
| 1:33:16 | Aukai | Vulture | Chambers |
| 1:36:24 | Sundad | Gunslinger | Way Station One |
| 1:40:35 | SUSS | Sunset II | Counting Sunsets |
| 1:43:43 | break | ||
| 1:44:26 | Michael Whalen | Echoes of You | The Sea of Tranquility |
| 1:51:07 | Byron Metcalf & Billy Denk | Activation | Activation |