Listening to Samantha Fish is like opening the window in the morning after an all-night poker game. Her bracing bluesy voice is both a clean breeze and bright sunshine, blowing out the stale smoke, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Future / Jen Rosenstein Samantha Fish first came to mainstream attention as part of a ...

Though it may seem to some that she has come out of nowhere, guitarist Samantha Fish has built a steady following the old-fashioned way: continuing to grow musically, creating a strong bond with her ...

Collaboration is a concept that’s long lived at the heart of the blues tradition. One of the more unique pairings of the last 30 years saw blues punks the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion backing legendary ...

Samantha Fish greets backhanded compliments — things like “Pretty good for a girl,” “You play like a guy” — with a challenge: “Plug in your guitar, man. Let’s go.” With a decade of touring, many ...

After blues/rocker Samantha Fish left the scrappy Ruff label—which thrust her into moderate yet notable blues semi-stardom—by jumping to the larger indie Rounder (now a subsidiary of the even bigger ...

Anyone who’s heard guitar maven Samantha Fish’s previous albums knows she’s developed an uncanny knack for combining elements of contemporary blues with guitar ferocity and visceral emotion. Her most ...

Bite into an old blues song. Spit some out. Let it sit in the sun, soften and rot. Find a blues seed in the pulp. Replant it in a pile of rock. See that seed take root, grow stronger amid the stones.

The pandemic stopped singer-songwriter Samantha Fish’s busy 2020 touring schedule, but didn’t stop her from doing what she does best. “I spent pretty much the whole year writing songs,” the ...

Samantha Fish delivers both passion and purpose. Considered one of the most formidable guitarists of her generation, she combines blues with bravado, making decided inroads into an arena once ...

If you closed your eyes and listened to Samantha Fish’s solo battle with her drummer, you wouldn’t picture a woman with a blond, curly, retro bob shredding guitar the way she was. Fish brought her ...