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Samantha Sidley has just released a cover of the Ry Cooder track “Drive Like I Never Been Hurt.” Closed Captioned says “you need to hear its beautiful tones. What Sidley does here is not only take a beautiful song from Cooder’s catalog to cover, but she makes it her own… She’s an incredible singer." Thanks for the love!
Samantha Sidley recently chatted with Music Connection, telling the site, “I want to relate to now. I want people who say, ‘I hate jazz,’ to listen and say ‘I like jazz because I can understand this.’ You have to tell your story. The easiest way to do it is to find a focal point. Your job is to give the message and move forward with it. That opens up such a world.”
“Samantha Sidley's bubbly, LGBTQ-friendly jazz-pop belies a traumatic journey,” says the Los Angeles Times today in its interview with Sam about her life and debut album Interior Person. Sam speaks with Mikael Wood about the ‘quietly radical” record and the life that led up to it. It's a powerful read. Sam plays The Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles tomorrow evening at 7PM PST.
Windy City Times has posted writer Jerry Nunn's chat with Samantha Sidley! Her debut album Interior Person is out now on Release Me Records featuring Sam singing songs written for her by some of the most important women in her life: Inara George, Alex Lllly, and Barbara Gruska (Sam’s wife!).
Samantha Sidley chatted with The Bay Area Reporter ahead of tonight's performance in San Francisco at Rickshaw Stop with Alex Lilly and The Bird and the Bee!
"Sidley assumes that most of her audiences are LGBTQ, but says that she would welcome straight audiences because love is universal,” The Reporter reports. “She notes that gay people have had to listen to music from a straight perspective for a long time and have been able to relate to the music. Why then, couldn't straights relate to a song from a lesbian perspective?"
"Samantha Sidley’s Interior Person (out via Release Me Records on September 13) 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."
Matt Micucci spent some time chatting with Sam for JAZZIZ. Enjoy!
Vocalist Samantha Sidley, and songwriters Alex Lilly and Barbara Gruska, share details about "Listen!!," the latest single from Sam's upcoming debut album. Go to All About Jazz, follow the instructions of the song title, and stay tuned for Interior Person, out Sept. 13th from Release Me Records. See Sam on tour with The Bird and The Bee all across the US right now.
Today, Refinery29 premieres the luxurious and fun music video for Samantha Sidley’s career-defining anthem, “I Like Girls,” written by Alex Lilly along with Sam’s wife and the album’s producer, Barbara Gruska. Interior Person is out Sept. 13th from Release Me Records. See Sam will be on tour with The Bird and The Bee starting Aug. 11th.
“Out-and-proud vocalist Samantha Sidley pays tribute to The Beach Boys with a sumptuous, jazzy version of a buried treasure from the band’s iconic, prolific discography."
If you haven't hear Sam's version of "Busy Doin' Nothin'" yet, what have you been busy doin'? Nothin'? Boom! Really though, go over to JAZZIZ and listen to this 142 times. Her US tour with The Bird and the Bee and Alex Lilly starts Aug. 11!
“I’m gay and I’m proud, and I want to sing songs that are about being gay and proud,” Samantha Sidley tells After Ellen, which says, "Sidley’s voice in 'I Like Girls' is playful and velvety, a perfect mood-setter for a cocktail hour. This song does not disappoint." I say, "This song is a damn anthem as far as I'm concerned!"
Sam's debut album Interior Person is out Sept. 13 on Release Me Records. A US tour with The Bird and The Bee and Alex Lilly launches Aug. 11.
"With many Beach Boys songs, it seems impossible to record a version that betters Brian Wilson’s immaculate original productions. I’d argue Samantha Sidley’s jazzy version surpasses the original."
Hell to the yes, Cover Me! Check out Sam's cover of "Busy Doin' Nothin'" now. The track is streaming everywhere tomorrow. Her US tour with The Bird and The Bee and Alex Lilly launches Aug. 11, while Sam's debut album Interior Person is out Sept. 13t from Release Me Records.
Samantha Sidley likes girls and Jazziz Magazine likes Samantha Sidley. Listen to the low-key anthem "I Like Girls," featured over at Jazziz here: http://bit.ly/SIDLEY-JAZZIZ. Tour with The Bird and The Bee and Alex Lilly launches Aug. 11th. Sidley's debut album Interior Person arrives via Release Me Records on Sept. 13th.
Los Angeles-based jazz singer, Samantha Sidley, shares "anthemic lyrical content for an evolving culture" via the single "I Like Girls” today with Grimy Goods. The first single from Sidley’s upcoming Interior Person album (Sept. 13th, Release Me Records) is a Pride Month essential. "I Like Girls" is available on all platforms tomorrow. Sidley launches a nationwide tour opening for The Bird and The Bee and label mate, Alex Lilly, on Aug. 11th.
Samantha Sidley is a jazz vocalist from L.A. and she likes girls. “I Like Girls” is the first song, first single, and the first words you’ll hear on Sidley’s debut album Interior Person, out Sept. 13th from Release Me Records. The album features songs written for Sam by some of her favorite women: Inara George, Alex Lilly, and Sam's wife, Barbara Gruska. Check out an impromptu performance of "I Like Girls" below (foot to fax machine at 2:33!) The official "I Like Girls" single drops June 21st.