Samantha Fish is coming back with a new album, and she's brought her cigar box guitar to the recording sessions!
The Kansas City blues diva has just premiered her first single, "Crow Jane" from her latest album Chills & Fever. The track is an old Skip James cover, delivered in a greasy Detroit groove.
Fish recently told Guitar World, “It’s such an old song, and I felt like it could be a really killer, ballsy song. I played the cigar box guitar on it, which my love affair of the cigar box goes up and down. Sometimes I’m really into it and sometimes I’m not. But it adds such a cool, heavy texture. It has a P-bass pickup on a guitar with only four strings, and it just sounds really guttural and kinda nasty. That song is very guitar driven and the horns almost add a New Orleans funeral procession vibe to it. It’s pretty heavy. I picked it because it was a dark, creepy song and I like that kind of stuff. I’m into the macabre.”
Chills & Fever will be released on March 17. Find out more information at SamanthaFish.com
Tour Dates
Mar 3 Lafayette’s Music Room Memphis, TN
Mar 4 Bottleneck Blues Bar Vicksburg, MS
Mar 5 DBA New Orleans, LA
Mar 9 Terra Fermata Stuart, FL
Mar 10 Funky Biscuit Boca Raton, FL
Mar 11 Bonita Springs Blues Festival Bonita Springs, FL
Mar 17 Jackson Hole Rendezvous Fest Jackson Hole, WY
Mar 18 River City Blues Festival Marietta, OH
Apr 6 The Palladium St. Petersburg, FL
Apr 8 Tampa Bay Blues Festival St.Petersburg, FL
Apr 11 The Stanhope House Stanhope, NJ
Apr 12 Sellersville Theatre Sellersville, PA
Apr 13 Birchmere Alexandria, VA
Apr 14 Highline Ballroom New York, NY
Apr 15 Harrisburg Midtown Arts Harrisburg, PA
Apr 21 Sweetwater 420 Festival Atlanta, GA
Apr 22 Savage Station Asheville, NC
Apr 23 Pleasure Island Blues & Jazz Fest Kure Beach, NC
May 5 Republic New Orleans, LA
May 20 Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival Annapolis, MD
May 21 Doheny Blues Festival Dana Beach, CA
Jun 10 Greeley Blues Jam Festival Greeley, CO
Jun 16 WC Handy Blues & BBQ Henderson, KY 42420
Jun 17 Utah Blues Festival Salt Lake City, UT
Aug 19 Big Bull Falls Blues Festival Wausau, WI
Replies
Samantha is great. I've met her several times. For all you Blues lovers out there, be sure to check out her sister Amanda Fish also. I've known the girls personally for several years now. I'm BFF with their Mom.
I've got 2 signed T-shirts of the girls.
Samantha,
Your Mom and I are proud of you.
Love ya,
Marie H.
I can't wait to get Samantha's new album. She is just wonderful -- how I wish I could see her in person. Wish she'd come to Louisville, KY ... maybe next year. And she has a sister? I sure will check out what she's doing. The girls must come from a very musical family. I'm old enough to be their grandma -- but so what? Great music is just great music. I know their Mom must be so, so proud --- she certainly has every right to be.
Regards to you all,
B
Man that rocks! Hmm,The Birchmere is only 3 hours from me.