Here is a new mini-documentary on Shawnee, Okla., native and singer-songwriter
Samantha Crain and her band,
The Midnight Shivers.
The documentary captures music and insight into her upcoming full-length album debut, "Songs in the Night," due out April 30 on Ramseur Records. The film is directed by Oklahoma's Sterlin Harjo.
Samantha Crain and The Midnight Shivers from sterlinharjo on Vimeo.
PLUS! See live footage of Crain at the South by Southwest music festival in Austin in March at my Barrelhouse Beat channel on YouTube. 
youtube.com/BarrelhouseBeat.
Praise for Crain:
“Her voice is gorgeously odd — all fulsome, shape-shifting vowels that do indeed billow like fog. But while her moody country rock is full of dark themes, she rarely gives in to them: Her band plays with jaunty sweetness, shuffling and bouncing through sorghum-sticky melodies.”
-- Rolling Stone (Also a starred review in April 30 issue: Three-and-a-half stars)
“Ms. Crain was captivating. Her pleading, slightly distant intonation recalled early-1990s Britpop, an accent atop a voice that traverses the space between Gillian Welch and Regina Spektor. And when Ms. Crain pushes herself, that voice arcs and dips and punches like Siouxsie Sioux’s.”
-- The New York Times
Director Sterlin Harjo belongs to the Seminole and Creek Nations, and is a native of Holdenville. In 2004, Sundance Institute selected Harjo to receive an Annenberg Fellowship. In 2006 Harjo was in the first class of United States Artists award recipients. His short film, "Four Sheets to the Wind," premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Read and hear more from Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers at samanthacrain.com.
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