Paper Doll Samantha Fish

• 1 I'm Done Runnin' 03:04
• 2 Can Ya Handle The Heat? 02:52
• 3 Lose You 03:12
• 4 Sweet Southern Sounds 04:59
• 5 Off In The Blue 04:07
• 6 Fortune Teller 05:42
• 7 Rusty Razor 02:48
• 8 Paper Doll 03:55
• 9 Don't Say It 05:17
• Total Runtime 35:56

Info for Paper Doll

Als Künstlerin, Sängerin, Songwriterin und Gitarristin hat Samantha Fish zahlreiche Auszeichnungen für ihren einzigartigen Selbstausdruck erhalten (u. a. mehrere Blues Music Awards und eine GRAMMY-Nominierung), den sie durch explosive Riffs, eindringliche Rhythmen und mitreißenden Gesang vermittelt. Ihr Talent wurde von keinem Geringeren als Eric Clapton erkannt, der sie einlud, bei seinem Crossroads 2023 in Los Angeles aufzutreten. Sie ist eine Festival-Headlinerin, die das Cover von Gitarrenmagazinen ziert und international vor ausverkauften Häusern tourt. Fish beherrscht ihre kathartischen Shows mit ihrer kantigen Stimme und ihrer unverblümten Slide-Gitarre.

Für ihr neues Album Paper Doll hat sich Fish mit dem legendären Produzenten Bobby Harlow zusammengetan. Mit der Hilfe der Co-Autoren Kate Pearlman, Jim McCormick, Anders Osborne und Harlow hat sie ihre bisher stärksten Songs geschrieben. Ihre eklektische Sensibilität wurde in eine Reihe von Songs kanalisiert, die sowohl emotional stark als auch wild entflammbar sind und dazu beitragen, ihre langjährige Mission zu erfüllen, das Blues-Genre für ein völlig neues Publikum zu öffnen.

Samantha Fish, Gesang, Gitarren
Ron Johnson, Bass
Jamie Douglass, Schlagzeug
Mickey Finn, Keyboards

Samantha Fish
Just a few months ago, very few people outside Kansas City, Missouri knew there was a young, dynamic musician named Samantha Fish getting ready to take the world by storm. In fact, it's not all that long ago that the 22-year-old singer/guitarist first discovered the blues and started paying her dues on that city's local scene. With Runaway, her solo debut, she now breaks out big time, announcing herself as a newcomer to be reckoned with.

The album's ten tracks - nine of them originals - incorporate "all the sounds I grew up with, with my own spin," says Fish, who seems to have spent her formative years in the Midwest soaking up a vast array of musical styles. Runaway features sharp-edged, riff-driven blues ("Down in the Swamp"), breakneck boogies ("Runaway"), smoky, late-night jazz ("Feelin' Alright") as well as hints of the sultry 70s hard rock of Ann and Nancy Wilson and the 4/4 ruggedness of the Rolling Stones. Throughout, Fish demonstrates astonishing range and depth as a songwriter. Her vocals are cool, confident and nothing less than beguiling.

Backing her on this eclectic collection of modern electric blues is the same crack team that first convened for the making of Girls With Guitars. That collaboration with fellow female artists Cassie Taylor and Dani Wilde, released earlier this year, already showed that Fish refuses to be intimidated, even when working with musicians more experienced than herself. "They are incredibly talented and creative, so it made for fun sessions," she says of the well-oiled studio band heard on Runaway. Jamie Little, one of the UK's most in-demand drummers, reunites with bassist Cassie Taylor to give the record plenty of rhythmic thump. Producer Mike Zito, a St. Louis native and 2010 Blues Music Award winner, adds thick, meaty electric guitar on most cuts. "Mike and I have known each other for a few years now, so he knew the sound and style I was after. He did a great job of taking ideas and giving them direction in the studio setting."

In between making these first two albums, Fish spent a month on the road with Cassie Taylor and Dani Wilde for the first leg of the year-long Blues Caravan Tour. It gave her the valuable opportunity to road-test the material heard on Runaway to a discriminating audience. With an exciting new debut album now in her back pocket, the tour continues throughout the summer and into the fall of 2011, touching down at many European and North American festivals and even taking to the seas on the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise in October.

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