Whether you are an existing Samantha Fish fan or a relative newcomer wanting to learn more about Samantha Fish's music - take the recommended Acid Test.
Take your Vinyl, CD's, Cassettes, 4-Tracks (joking), MP3's and pare them down to what you would want to keep during the next Apocalypse. Discard (temporarily, or even permanently) anything that does not have a profound, deep meaning to you. Try to end up with 3-12 bands, songs or albums that are must have, dear to your heart keepsakes.
Now listen to your old music and Samantha Fish songs, mixed, matched, her covers, her original work. The first night I listened to Samantha Fish, I had been listening to Jim, Jimi and Janis, when I heard my first Samantha Fish song, "Gone For Good". We have all been there, at least once. But what I really noticed, is she fits right in with Jimi, Jim and Janis. In fact, she fits in with Janis so well, not a dople-ganger way, but you can just play the two women's songs all night mixed up and it is just sublime. But Samantha plays guitar while she's singing. She really is quite extraordinary.
So, choose about 12 of THE GREATS and mix Samantha Fish's music in with them. Take a drive into the far distant past (Taj Majal, "Leaving Trunk") or more recently (Johnny Cash, "One") and her music just flows with theirs.
To anyone reading this, Samantha Fish is worth the drive, the flight, the face-value of her tickets, the cost of her CD's or downloads, etc. There are yard-sale CD's and keeper CD's, she is a keeper. Another one of those (Janis, Jim, Jimi) musical geniuses was flying so low under the radar I nearly missed her completely. Samantha Fish's lack of media exposure is the fault of the media, not hers.
Friday, 5 Oct 2019 at Doug Weston's Troubadour was Exquisite. There is just no putting her show into words. I went home and the next day I started listening to songs I had not heard in years, Like Buddy Miles and Jimi Hendrix performing Buddy Miles song, "Them Changes". Her performance did three things: 1) It gave me a desire to see her again, live. 2) It made me wonder, where will she go next, musically, and 3) I find myself wishing Samantha Fish and Phil Lynott could do a duet together. This woman could take the stage with anyone's idols, past or present.
Samantha Fish is going places, even in our punitive Hollywood environment. I pray there is something left of her (if, after) BMI get their money grubbing hands on her. I keep seeing her shoot by other artists like a meteor, I literally have premonitions of her future greatness. Maybe when Samantha Fish does her tour in 2020 or 2012, she will either become house-hold-name famous: a) from a cover, or b) from one of her own original songs, or c) probably from both.
The Samantha Fish Band band is as real and as lively as it gets. I almost forgot the brass... Chills and Fever, Either Way I Lose / Somebody's Always Trying, Hello, Stranger, I'll Come Runnin' Over, It's Your Voodoo Working and Somebody's Always Trying... Champion sax... The songs with horns, her sweet vocals and rock-star lead guitar are so delicious. The songs with just the Trio are a polished, seasoned and an extremely tight band. The online music videos give you a small taste of a live performance. Samantha Fish's fans love and adore her, they love and adore the band. One man got so excited before the show, upon spotting Chris Alexander (bass player).
Did I mention her voice? Her guitar playing? Her sweet, sweet voice? Her guitar solos? The way she sometimes makes guitar noises with her voice and makes vocal sound with her guitar?
Thank you for reminding me of my own personal roots-rock-blues. Bravo. Well done. ~ Tracy Turner © 2021
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