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Watch Sam Amidon’s official video for ‘As I Roved out’ which features on his new album ‘Bright Sunny South’ which is one of our Albums of the Month. The video is like a tale in itself…

With his fourth album ‘Bright Sunny South’ Sam Amidon revisits bare folk storytelling. What he calls “a lonesome record”, to Bon Iver, is “the tips of the blades rising”. Either way: an adventure.

Sam Amidon announces the release of a new album. ‘Bright Sunny South’ sees a return to a more unadorned sound…something that was inspired by Martin Carthy’s 1970s recordings.

Beth Orton reveals the opening track to her new album ‘Sugaring Season’. Listen to ‘Magpie’ and watch her video for ‘Something more Beautiful’.

We’ve been playing Sam Amidon’s music on Folk Radio UK since our concept in 2004 and during that time Sam has become a key artist that has helped define and push the boundaries of what we play and introduce to listeners. So we could hardly resist the opportunity of an interview in the lead up to his show at Westminster Reference Library, London on Friday 13th April. Sam Amidon has …

Jim Moray takes up the microphone to record his first podcast: a bit of banter and music from Mike Waterson, Gillian Welch, Sam Amidon, Emily Portman and more, it’s right up our street!

I actually planned to write this as an intro to the video below taken at Cafe Oto recently. I’ve a fascination for Sam and his music so I naturally delved deeper and thought I’d share a bit more about him.

Sam Amidon is undertaking his first solo tour of North America. We thought it best we leave it to him to tell you about it. He recently sent this message to fans: Hello Friends! The time is definitely starting to really fly right now, huh! It is now officially: late August, early September.

Following an Irish immigrant carpenter from coastal Queens to the Catskills and beyond,The Builder is an American existential portrait that explores the gulf between the idea of a thing and the thing itself. Having set off to the New York countryside to construct a reproduction of the earliest of American cape houses, the protagonist (Colm O’Leary) finds himself overcome by an inexplicable fatigue.

Born to folk-musician parents in Brattleboro, Vermont it’s hardly a surprise that Sam Amidon is continuing down the folk path trodden for him at the age of six when he was first taken on stage by his parents: both successful musicians of the Appalachian folk revival. Like a game of Chinese whispers, Sam takes those murder ballads and traditional folk songs his father would sing to him and passes them down …

I was meant to be going to see The Whale Watching tour in Bristol last weekend…I had a ticket! For one reason and another things just didn’t work out so I missed it. I’m slowly recovering as I also had tickets to see them at the Barbican which got cancelled due to the air flights problem. Not good.

I finally got to listen to Sam Amidon’s latest album, I see the Sign. It feels like it’s been a long wait, but  it was worth it. I didn’t expect anything less to be honest, but he has delivered a lot more than I ever expected on this, his fourth album. It was a pleasure to see the Whale Watching Tour cast present but the addition of Beth Orton was …