Samantha Fish Announces New Album

We interviewed Ms Fish a while back – see link http://bit.ly/1lEcNXB – and she is the real deal on infectious blues and roots music. Now a new album is ready for release…

Samantha Fish has confirmed that her new studio album will be released later this year.

Entitled ‘Kill Or Be Kind’ the new record is released on Friday 30th August 2019 on her new label Rounder Records.

In addition, she has also released a two-song single from the album “Watch It Die” and “Love Letters“.

Both tracks are available now and can be heard below. 

The album and singles’ news coincides with her headline UK and European tour which features JLTT friends Curse of Lono (UK dates only) as tour special guests. 

A full tracklist for Kill Or Be Kind, along with the cover art, will be revealed soon.

Fish’s incendiary live performances have been mesmerizing audiences all over the globe. Now, with Kill Or Be Kind, Fish is poised for a major breakthrough. The edgy roots music album was recorded at Royal Studios in Memphis and produced by three-time Grammy winner Scott Billington and mixed by two-time Grammy winner Steve Reynolds. Boasting 11 original songs ranging from the electric cigar box stomp of “Bulletproof” to the sweet Memphis R&B of “Trying Not To Fall in Love With You,” the album is sure to establish Fish as a potent force in roots music.

The Kansas City-born-and-bred musician flirts with tradition but pushes genre boundaries to create a sound that’s distinctly her own: “She Don’t Live Here Anymore,” co-written by Parker Millsap, features a Memphis soul underpinning with a sustained vibrato guitar sound that edges toward country. “Love Your Lies” persuasively straddles punk, rockabilly, and soul; while “You Got It Bad (Better Than You Ever Had)” is a classic blues rocker, thick with layered guitars and a cigar box solo. She shows off her range with the sweetly wistful “Dream Girl” and the cathartic, blues-saturated “Farewell My Fair Weather.”

Speaking about her career, Fish said: “I’m never gonna be a traditional blues artist, because that’s not who I am. But it’s all the blues for me.

“When Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf came out, what they were doing didn’t sound like anything that had been done in blues before.

“You’ve gotta keep that kind of fire and spirit. I’m never gonna do Muddy Waters better than Muddy Waters, so I have to be who I am and find my best voice.”

Pete Sargeant