įish appeared on Devon Allman's 2013 album Turquoise in a duet covering the Tom Petty/ Stevie Nicks' song " Stop Draggin' My Heart Around". The album won the 2012 Blues Music Award for Best New Artist. In 2011, Fish recorded Runaway with the help of her mentor Mike Zito. įish continued touring with the Samantha Fish Band, featuring "Go-Go Ray" Pollard on drums and Chris Alexander on bass, playing in Europe and the United States. The three guitarists then toured on the Ruf Records 2011 Blues Caravan in the U.S. Ruf Records put together a record with Fish and two other female blues artists, Cassie Taylor and Dani Wilde, titled Girls with Guitars. The live album attracted the attention of a talent company, who recommended her to Ruf Records. In 2009, Fish recorded and produced Live Bait. Career Fish at LEAF in Black Mountain, North Carolina, May 2018 After turning 18, she often joined in with the singers and bands who were performing there. įish regularly went to the Knuckleheads Saloon to hear touring blues artists. Samantha and her sister were both drawn towards blues music in their teenage years. Initially hearing recordings of Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Ray Vaughan, she later heard music from Tom Petty and The Rolling Stones and cites the Stones' album Sticky Fingers as an influential moment. Samantha Fish grew up in Kansas City, Missouri and started out playing the drums, but when she was 15, she switched to guitar.įish's mother was the instructor in a local church choir and her father played guitar with friends. Her elder sister, Amanda Fish, is also a singer-songwriter, recording for VizzTone Records. While often cited as a blues artist, Fish's albums and live shows feature multiple genres, including rock, country, funk, bluegrass and ballads. Samantha Fish (born January 30, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist from Kansas City, Missouri.
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