“Interior Person” LP, out now on Inara George’s
Release Me label, “addresses the pleasures and torments of romance from an
explicitly gay point of view.”
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Samantha
Sidley as photographed by Claire
Marie Vogel
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Samantha
Sidley | “Drive Like I Never Been Hurt” (Ry Cooder)
“I heard ‘Drive
Like I Never Been Hurt’ for the first time on a long drive out of town. One
of my favorite places to listen to music is on a long drive. It got stuck in my
head and I wanted to listen to it all the time. I felt I needed to sing it. It
was something I needed to talk about. This song to me is about saying ‘f*** you’
to all and any oppressive obstacles life throws at you. You don’t forget pain,
but you learn to accept and move through it. Sometimes that feels like you are
driving down the road in a convertible, tears streaming down your face, you
don’t even know where you are headed but that doesn’t matter. You trust the
destination. Even when you can’t see it.”
[STREAM | MP3]: https://fanatic.lnk.to/SamanthaSidley-DriveLikeINeverBeenHurt
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Samantha
Sidley | NYC Residency
02/06/2020: New York, NY @ The Green Room 42 (TIX)
02/07/2020: New York, NY @ The Green Room 42 (TIX)
02/08/2020: New York, NY @ The Green Room 42 (TIX)
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See the video for “I Like Girls” and read
an in-depth interview with the Los
Angeles Times.
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Samantha Sidley
Interior
Person
Out Now
(Release Me Records)
Streaming Link:
Track Listing:
01. I Like Girls (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)
02. Only You Can Break My Heart
03. Naked To Love
04. Butterfly In My Ass (STREAM)
05. I Can’t Listen
06. Listen!! (STREAM | MP3)
07. Rose Without Thorns
08. Busy Doin’ Nothin’ (STREAM |
MP3)
09. Easy To Be True
10. Interior Person
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Samantha
Sidley | In The Press
“Samantha
Sidley turns ‘Singing In The Rain’
into a pro-lesbian anthem. It’s her take on the black and white era of catchy
songs from movie musicals but updated to be inclusive and reflect her take on
the world.” — Refinery29
“Feels like a breath of fresh air. But it is also its
meticulously crafted sound, which blends vintage jazz with more modern pop
elements, that makes it such an outstanding debut.” — JAZZIZ
“It takes us back to the speakeasies of the 20s, with
flirtatious saxophones and crisp, expressive vocals. The song (‘I Like Girls’) is a sophisticated and
delicious ice-breaker, serving anthemic lyrical content for an evolving
culture.” — Grimy Goods
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Samantha Sidley | About
Samantha
Sidley is a jazz vocalist, born-and-raised
in Los Angeles, and she likes girls.
The words “I like girls” are the first thing you’ll
hear when Sidley’s debut album Interior
Person (Out Now, Release Me Records) opens. The song is
an unassuming anthem, a future standard for an evolving culture. It’s also a
fun and funny ice-breaker that you’ll sing along with.
“I Like
Girls” is a peek into what plays out
as a meticulously crafted debut album featuring Sidley’s beautifully trained voice taking confident ownership of
songs written for her to sing by some of the most important women in her life.
These other “girls” include fellow musicians Inara George, Alex Lilly, and Sidley’s
“Top One” favorite musician of all-time, her wife, Barbara Gruska.
“Inara and Alex and Barbara wrote songs that are all very personal to my story – they
literally are my story – and from my lesbian perspective, which I appreciate so
much,” Sidley says. In addition to
co-writing many of the songs here, and playing drums (masterfully) on many of
the tracks, Gruska also produced Interior
Person in a studio constructed in Sidley’s
childhood bedroom.
“My whole life was a song,” Sidley says of her childhood. “If I looked at a tree, it was a
song. If I felt happy, sad, joy, it was a song. When I first heard Judy Garland in ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ I remember thinking: ‘I understand.’ I’ve
always considered myself an interpreter, which is sort of and undervalued art
form. I like to take a song and make the story true for me.”
Sidley soon discovered Aretha
Franklin, Billie Holiday, soul
music in general, and her own personal “soulfulness” itself. You know, like all
seven-year-olds do. Later, considering how annoyed 11-year-old Sidley was when her vocal instructor
wouldn’t allow her to sing Holiday’s
“Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)” at
her first recital, it all made perfect sense.
A decade later, Sidley
got to sing whatever she wanted, performing at NYC’s legendary Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel, where she lived in Dorothy Parker’s room, listened to a lot of Anita O’Day and Ella Fitzgerald,
and landed a rave review in The New York
Times.
“She knows exactly how I express myself and what my
intentions are,” Sidley says of her
working relationship with Gruska. “Collaborating
on this record has actually been a much longer collaboration of us getting to
know each other.”
Interior Person, the debut album from Samantha
Sidley is out now featuring the single “I
Like Girls”. Samantha Sidley is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.
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Samantha Sidley | Links
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Josh Bloom at Fanatic
Promotion | Contact
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