Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar’s latest recording,
entitled “Run to Me”, is scheduled for release in April 2018. Produced by Darcy
Yates (Bassist in Bahamas), the new album explores the full range of the
vicissitudes of love: desire, betrayal and, at times, emotional and sexual
satisfaction. The lyrics are incisive, the melodies are constantly arresting
and the harmonies and arrangements call up the best of the soul sounds of Stax
Records and such contemporary artists as Leon Bridges, Sharon Jones, and Lee Fields.
Samantha
Martin and Delta Sugar’s debut release, 2015’s Send the Nightingale, was a
stripped down affair consisting of Martin, her two co-singers Sherie and
Stacie, and guitarist Mikey McCallum. For Run to Me, Martin elected to record
her emotionally wrought material with an expanded band, augmenting the core of
Delta Sugar’s gospel-infused harmonies with a full rhythm section, piano, organ
and an ever-so-soulful horn section.
Send the
Nightingale was a stunning achievement which garnered four Maple Blues nominations
in 2016, was regularly featured on the CBC, topped the blues charts on Stingray
radio and propelled the group onto the stages of all the major Canadian
festivals and clubs coast to coast. Subsequent to the album’s release, Martin
has been nominated three years in a row as Female Vocalist of the Year at the
Maple Blues Awards. Continuing to build on the group’s steam rolling momentum,
in the fall of 2017, Samantha Martin and Delta Sugar were selected by a panel
of blues experts to represent Toronto at the International Blues Challenge in
Memphis, a platform that has served to launch any number of careers in both
Europe and the United States.
After
performing 130 high energy “soul revue” style shows in the US and Canada in
2017, and buzz-worthy showcases at both Americana (Sept. 2017) and at The
International Blues Challenge in Memphis (Jan. 2018) – Samantha is now building
her European fan base with two full length European tours scheduled before
February 2019. The live show is a torrid force of nature, taking audiences to
emotional peaks while leaving them stunned with pin-you-against-the-wall power.
No comments:
Post a Comment