Samantha Crain
Hailing from Shawnee, OK, the state that birthed both The Flaming Lips and Woody Guthrie, Samantha Crain writes with both the brazen conviction of the latter and the unflinching creative ambition of the former. Add The Midnight Shivers’ shadowy arrangements, described by Rolling Stone as “jaunty and sweet, shuffling and bouncing through sorghum-sticky melodies” to Crain’s razor-sharp lyrics and all superficial lines of genre or aesthetic are blurred. Their sound is deeply rural and southern, but also itinerant and urban. Like Jack Kerouac before her, Crain, is lost on the subway, sleeping in boxcars, leaving lovers behind, and dining in small town obscurity all within a few short days.
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