Samantha Crain – You Had Me At Goodbye
Full Time Hobby -24 March 2017
Samantha Crain’s fifth album ‘You Had Me At Goodbye‘ is out now on Full Time Hobby. Watch her latest video for Oh Dear Louis, recorded during a live performance rehearsal.
Written over 4 months at the back end of winter whilst at home in Norman, Oklahoma, You Had Me At Goodbye was penned whilst Samantha was working shifts at a pizza place to save up money for touring, recording, paying bills, and as a self-confessed ‘film nerd,’ binge watching movies. “Oklahoma is beautiful, but my relationship with it is complicated. There are mountains, plains, prairies, rolling hills, high deserts and plateaus, with an amazing creative community of people making beautiful visual art, interesting films and loud music. But it’s extremely Christian, conservative, and whilst people say it’s ‘friendly,’ really, people are only friendly if you’re white and aren’t dressed unconventionally. I feel welcome and alienated all at once.”
The album was produced by John Vanderslice (Spoon, the Mountain Goats, Strand of Oaks), mixed and engineered by Jacob Winik (The Magnetic Fields, Hot Buttered Rum), Samantha returned to the Bay Area in California to, once again, record the album in analog at Tiny Telephone Studio (this time, at the newly opened Tiny Telephone Oakland annex studio). But her music finds equal influence through those kindred spirits who have shared her struggle to be heard – whether it’s good friend Dora, Patti Smith, Cyndi Lauper or many, many others as Samantha explains;
“This album is dedicated to and inspired by the independent, strong, focused women who somehow continue to explode through the dark clouds of the weirdly oppressive art/music world. Every woman with a vision who didn’t veer from it amongst dissension. Every woman who was vulgar and loud and smart and ugly, in addition to the other aspects of their person – everything in opposition of what was expected of them.”
Samantha Crain will be touring the UK & Europe in March & April – see below:
Samantha Crain:Oh Dear Louis – UK & Ireland Tour Dates
Mar 30 – Night and Day, Manchester
Apr 01 – Ramsgate Music Hall, Ramsgate
Apr 02 – The Louisiana, Bristol
Apr 03 – The Hope and Ruin, Brighton
Apr 04 – The Lexington, London
Apr 07 – Whelan’s, Dublin, Ireland
Apr 08 – Cleere’s, Kilkenny, Ireland
Apr 09 – Coughlans, Cork, Ireland