Below you will find some quotes and reviews about
Sue and the Flaming Stars' new CD - 'Drivin' on the Highway of Love'

"...After the release of her solodebut All I Can Do Is Dream You from 2002, the new cd of Sue and her Flaming Stars is sparkling in stores right now. With justice, I would say, because Sue Moreno seems to be the Great Unknown...
While her debut album is blessed with a great portion of bluesy and jazzy tunes, on Drivin' on the Highway of Love Sue opens all doors wide to all musicstyles popular in the 40s and 50s. Traditionally of course, but at the same time rebellious and whipped up~ that's what Sue's music sounds like. Her heroes Elvis, Hank Williams and Patsy Cline were like that and didn't do it differently. In Moreno's hands everything changes into gold!..."
Ferenc Koolen, Music Magazine 'FRET', december 2004

"...Here we have a very good singing girl from the Netherlands who also plays rhythm guitar, she gives us a very pleasant and much variable mixture of rock 'n' roll and rockabilly with influenses from jazz, swing and latin rhythms as well as hillbilly. The band consists of Dik Otten on both electric and rhythm guitar, Willy Pieters on stringbass and Dennis Kneulman on drums, dobro and guitar. There's also some guests which includes Hans Van der Velde on lapsteel, John Permenter on fiddle and Hennie Korsten on guitar.
Sue sings some of her songs in Spanish like "Besame Mucho" and "Sway/Quien Sera" and it gives a very beatiful and relaxed feeling. They have a very clear and airy sound and seems quite at home with different styles. The musicians are very good and the record moves you, it's an album wellworth picking up. They also have three original songs, among them the titletrack..."
Erik Petersson, Swedish music magazine 'American Music Magazine', September
2004

"...Sue Moreno ist momentan der bekannteste leuchtende Stern über dem niederländischen Himmel und darüber hinaus auch nicht mehr ganz unbekannt. Mittlerweile tourt sie schon durch ganz Europa und auch in den Staaten durfte man sie schon mehrmals erleben. Nach ihrem ersten Solo-Album, welches ehrer Pop und jazzig ist, haben wir nun einen Rockabilly Silberling mit 19 Tracks. Gefühlvolle Balladen treffen auf rhythmischen authentischen Rockabilly.
Etwas Western-Swing-lastige Songs, gerne auch mit modernem Touch, runden die Scheibe ab und verleihen jedem einzelnen Song eine eigene Note. Dies wird z.B. besonders beim Johnny Burnette Trio Cover Sweet Love On My Mind deutlich. Das Lied I Love You Honey sorgt für die zusätzliche Western-Atmosphäre mit Unterstützung einer Geige. Auch die Bopper unter Euch kommen auf ihre Kosten bei dem bassbetonten Elvis Presley Song I Don’t Care if the Sun Don’t Shine.
Die Flaming Stars orientieren sich an bekannten Künstlern wie Buddy Holly, Elvis, aber auch modernen Bands. Abgerundet wird das Ganze durch die hübsche Sue und auf einen Live-Gig darf man sich wirklich freuen..."
Bopland, Slam Bam Magazine, magazine for Music and Lifestyle of the 50s, 40s and 30s, September 2004

"...SUE MORENO & THE FLAMING STARS - Drivin on the highway of love
Rock'n'roll rotad i 50-talet där rockabilly och country även finns med som
ingredienser. Sue Moreno har en varm och stark röst som jag gärna kallar
sensuell. Bandet svänger mjukt. Instrumenteringen är gitarrer, ståbas och
trummor. På vissa spår också dobro, fiol och steel. Låtmaterialet, hela
nitton spår, är en blanding av eget och andras men tonvikten på det senare.
Sue Moreno tillhör definitivt toppen av nutida rockÕnÕroll-sångerskor..."
Swedish 'Countryrockspecialisten', August 2004

"...Glamour girl Sue Moreno's CD is hot! Her voice soft and sexy, the band as tight as her skirts. Oh lala. Her smooth voice stays the focus point throughout the 19 songs but the Flaming Stars can hold their own with the best of them. Sue covers Rockabilly, Western Swing and Hillbilly Bop, Country Ballads, 50s and 60s Elvis material and Latin flavored songs. Elvis' "I Beg Of You" swings nicely, "Long Lonely Highway" with bluesy guitar licks rocks Elvis' style and "Besame Mucho" (partly sung in Spanish) opens with intense guitar licks and is as sexy as can be~ to quote Elvis author Ger Rijffs liner notes: "The ice cubes in my drink are melting at the speed of light". I was trying to pick favorites but that's almost impossible. The rockers "Two Long Years" and their original "Oh Baby Baby" with a western swing flavor (fiddle and all) are great but so are the many slower and mid-tempo numbers that possess so much intensity like "Sway". Unless you're looking for fast and furious Rockabilly only, give "Drivin' On The Highway Of Love" a spin and you'll fall in love with Sue's silky voice and a swinging band with a versatile repertoire and authentic 50s sound..."
Gaby & Marc Bristol, US Rock 'n Roll magazine Blue Suede News, 'The House
Organ of the Church of Rock 'n Roll', June-September 2004

"...E' con piacere che torniamo a parlare di Sue Moreno e del suo nuovo lavoro.
Rockabilly, rock 'n roll, forti influenze latine con 'Besame Mucho' e 'My Heart' mambo style, richiami swing e jazz e qualche accenno blues e country.
Come si può annoiare ascoltando un CD così variegato? E poi quando canta una
giovane ragazza con una bella voce il tutto diventa ancor più piacevole. Il suo timbro sensuale e vellutato rende incantevoli le cover di Elvis 'I Beg of You' , 'Just Because', 'Long Lonely Highway' e 'I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine' essattemente allo stesso modo come i pezzi originali del calibro di 'Oh Baby Baby' un rocking-country uptempo o la ruvida 'Say You're Mine'. E' in cantiere anche una collaborazione con Marco Di Maggio..."
Maurizio Maiotti, Review 'Jamboree', Italian magazine on music, cinema and
information of the '50s and '60s, June-September 2004

So what do I know about temporary rock n roll / rockabilly bands? Very little is the honest answer. The review section of this magazine is chuck full of UK / Euro CDs each month but I seldom read them. As a first generation rock n roller I have some difficulty in relating to homegrown bands, so am I the right person to be reviewing this offering from a young lady and three blokes from Holland, however attractive that lady may be (I rather hoped this was a DVD!)? In the interest of editorial and Euro harmony, I applied myself manfully to the task and I’m rather glad that I did. Far from being the wham-bam neo-rockabilly thrash that I expected, this turned out to be a highly professional product with excellent material well-sung, well played and tastefully arranged.
Gene’s Johnny Burnette penned ‘My Heart’ is a fine example of this. A good looking girl who likes Gene Vincent! Just my luck, thirty years too late! To my surprise it was the Elvis songs I enjoyed the most. I have had the King’s ‘I Beg of You’ etched on my heart since 1958 but I was quite taken by Sue and the lads’ version, which sounds like a different song while retaining the feel of the original. ‘Put the Blame on Me’ and ‘Long Lonely Highway’ work well too, ‘60s songs given the ‘50s treatment. ‘Just Because’ is given a nice country feel by John Permenter’s fiddle which crops up again on several numbers. From the title track, ‘Drivin’ on the Highway of Love’, to the closing ‘Lovesick Blues’ I found this CD to be most agreeable and I was impressed by Sue’s Spanish vocalising on ‘Besame Mucho’. As a pal of mine once said about ‘Race with the Devil’: “I didn’t understand the words, but I liked it!” With hand on heart I could say that Sue Moreno has the greatest female singing voice I’ve heard, I was impressed by her work on this CD. This was all new ground to me but I wouldn’t think that young shavers who dig the current scene could do much better than this. Maybe I should get out more...
Eric Dunsdon, Review Now Dig This magazine, June 2004

19 songs? Good lord! It's almost sad that folks from as far away as you can do good ol' rockin' American music better than a lot of the bands we have here. You sure you're not from Texas? I featured the new CD on the program last week. (...) Congrats on another great disk, you know I'll play the daylights out of it.
Bill Connor, Hill Country Hayride, KNBT Radio, New Braunfels, Texas

Is it possible to stay objective when Sue asks me to write a review on her last cd? Yes, cause I don’t have to fool around with the truth: the cd sounds just great.
Sue obviously waited a while before recording a cd with her band (although her solo-cd came out recently). Her accompanying band has grown in the way they play and sound, and Sue knows how to give every note her special treatment. The repertoire is definitely different from her solo cd, even though there are some links like the sultry Besame Mucho, or Sway/Quien Sera, that is to actually to be found on that album. Those songs provide a nice variation to the westernswing and rockabilly songs that all have a countrytwang. Sue and her band are charmed by original country sounds anyway, as you can hear on her own three compositions; the definite version of Drivin’ on the Highway of Love (that sounds just a little better than on our own Bop!-cd), Say You’re Mine (that makes all country-ingredients to a great musical piece) and Oh Baby Baby (which is played nice and fast and accompanied by great fiddle- playing). But really rocking is what Sue and the Flaming Stars do as well. Sweet Love on my Mind is not just another version and moreover, this version sounds sexy, which is not really the case on the other versions! Guess why... Besides that, it is nice to hear a female version of the (naturally present) Elvis-songs or some songs inspired by Elvis, like Just Because. And now we’re not even talking about the jazzy and bluesy songs that can be found on the album as well... Lots of variation, and the band shows to be able to play all kinds of varieties as well, thanks to Dik (guitars), Willy (stand up bass), Dennis (drums) and the additional musicians Hans vander Velde (lapsteel) and John Permenter (fiddle).
On this album we can hear 19 Sue & the Flaming Stars songs, so that fact, added up to the already mentioned feats of arms we can say that this album is without any doubt a very successful debut album.
Frans van Dongen, Boppin’ Around, June 2004

This is the second full lenght feature from Sue Moreno on Rarity Records. With 3 new self-penned tracks and a wide variety of 40's and 50's covers, some of 'em never heard done before by a female artist. But I for one would buy this CD just for it's front cover. Yes, of course because of that great car. Oh, you hadn't seen that car yet? I wonder what you were looking at then!
Sue's voice is the sweetest, and on her first album, she sang all of the sweetest songs. Her live show is quite a bit wilder, and a lot more rockabilly too. So Sue and her Flaming Stars decided on more rockabilly on this release. A great choice to my humble opinion. Of course Sue still sings the songs the only way she can: sweet and rockin'. The 3 new originals are the title track "Drivin' On The Highway Of Love", the bluesy and somewhat experimental "Say You're Mine" and the fast paced "Oh Baby Baby", with great fiddling by guest musician John Permenter.
Among the selection of covers, that all got the Sue Moreno treatment, are
great bopping versions of Elvis Presley's "I Beg Of You", "Just Because" and
"I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine", Gene Vincent's ever beautiful "My
Heart" (written by Johnny Burnette), Bobby Helms' classic "Tennessee Rock
'n' Roll", a superb slapping rockabilly rendition of "Sweet Love On My Mind"
(wow!), and a warm blooded "Many Tears Ago" (Connie Francis) with great
guitar picking. Sue's version of "Sway" is a bit too slow for me, but that's
probably because I'm used to the fabulous version of the song by The
Ballroomers.
For sure this platter holds something for everyone, and for every mood. Some
real cool boppers, hot rockabilly, great guitar licks combined with bone
chilling fiddle squeaks and great slapping. This gal sure can sing, and
she's got one heck of band too. Enjoy!
Reviewed by The BlackCat, 2004 www.blackcat.nl

"...It doesn't have to be a Long Lonely Highway Drivin' on the Highway of Love when you're in the company of sweet Sue Moreno and the Flaming Stars.
The band playin' is a cool combination of the original Blue Moon Boys (Scotty, Bill and D.J.) meeting the Stray Cats, mixed with genuine Flaming Stars fuel. Shaken not stirred!
Sue's singing and the Stars blistering backing come together as Sue's skirts. Va-va-voom! At a highly paced tempo no less than nineteen songs are performed on this
new baby.
Three of them self-penned by Miss Moreno with a little help from a friend. And even though these might not yet rank shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Leiber and Stoller, they are a brave start and deserve our applause. They mix in nicely with timeless classics such as "My Heart" (with a great Buddy Holly touch), "Sweet Love on my Mind", "Blues Stay Away" and "Many Tears Ago", one I remember having on a 45rpm by Connie Francis when I was a kid, back in the dark ages.
No less than five songs come from the Elvis Songbook. And why not? The guy was the best! Instead of the pom-pom-pom intro vocals on the "I Beg of You" original we are here treated to a Western swing beat that really works well. Refreshing!
More country sounds with great fiddle playing by John Permenter who also shares vocals with Sue on "Just Because". More Sun related Elvis is offered with "I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine".
Both "Put the Blame on Me" and "Long Lonely Highway" originated in the early sixties and get a rockin' treatment that hits you like a ton of bricks.
But Sue and the boys have much more to offer besides ballsy rock and country like sounds. Try to picture a somewhat sleazy strip joint back in the 1950s....
On stage a dark-haired beauty oozing sensuality into the mike while performing "Besame Mucho" and "Sway". Partly sung in English and Spanish. Gawd, the ice cubes in my drink are melting at the speed of light! This, to me, is Miss Moreno at her hottest.
But you of course can pick your own favorites.
If it's rockabilly, western swing, countrylike ballads or the Latin flavored songs. It's all here on this one CD.
Whatever your taste, listening to "Drivin' on the Highway of Love" leaves you with a mighty good feeling. And isn't that what good fun music is all about?
I rest my case. Have a nice day..."
GER RIJFF - Author and Publisher of Elvis related books.