Sam Amidon
I See The Sign

Despite the prevalence of faux-folksingers sensitively strumming acoustic guitars and softly mewling their angst, Sam Amidon continues to occupy a rar...

Amidon and Muhly return with more old folk ballads and an R. Kelly cover to boot. Though Sam Amidon’s reshaping of traditional, old folk and Americana...

You'll either get what Amidon does or you won't.If you do, you will hear a modern musical mind bending folk tradition at his will as he teases and tem...

An indication of the changing terrain of folk music can be gleaned from American singer Sam Amidon's fourth solo album I See The Sign. Where once it w...

Sam Amidon's idea of recomposition-- of excavating Appalachian folksongs; rearranging, repurposing, and creating a dissociation that feels uniquely co...

OK, so maybe Sam Amidon deals in the old, filling his records with worked-over versions of traditional folk songs. But what makes him so compelling is...

I'll keep it short, because the more time you spend reading this, the less time you have to listen to Sam Amidon's new album, I See The Sign, and it w...

Sam Amidon is young, American, and steeped in the traditions of folk music.  The son of eminent teachers and purveyors of "storytelling and traditiona...

Sam Amidon refers to the process of adapting the traditional Irish and Appalachian folk songs on his albums as ?recomposing?. He keeps the vocals and ...

The third album from this NY-via-Vermont singer/songwriter is another gorgeous set of sparse, traditional folk ballads that showcase his fragile, hear...