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Review: Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers

By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR Scene Writer on Sep 21, 2009, at 11:03 AM  Updated on 9/21 at 11:03 AM



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Samantha Crain and band (Photo by Julie Roberts)


The comparisons are numerous but the consensus is obvious: Samantha Crain's music is a lush and spellbinding combination of contradictions that somehow dwell in harmony.

The Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers' full-length debut, "Songs in the Night" excavates Crain's mature-yet-delicate, 22-year-old psyche. What it digs out is sooty, dappled with hope and sharply edged with undaunted courage.

Her lyrics reverberate with revolution, death, hope, honesty, resolution and escape. Her tunes are folky, boxcar-riding rhythms and warm, gaslight harmonies. Her poetic verses are transformed by accentuated vocals that skips confidently between ironic pop, soft folk and anxiety-laden indie rock.

Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers will perform Sept. 26, opening for the rootsy folk-rock powerhouse the Avett Brothers at Cain's Ballroom.

Read the full review at tulsaworld.com, here.

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The ' Music for Moore ' concert will be 5-11 p.m. May 29 at the Chevy Bricktown Event Center in Oklahoma City.

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This sure feels like a confirmation to me.

But of what, exactly, has yet to be decided.

'We are still figuring ...

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Businesses across the Brady Arts District will turn its monthly ' First Friday ' art crawl into something far more on ...

CONTACT THE BLOGGER

Jennifer Chancellor

918-581-8346
Email

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