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Sam

About Me

I am a singer-songwriter, currently living in Worthing, West Sussex. I've just moved back down here after a gap of over 20 years.
A bit of background... my first band was in Moseley, Birmingham, a fairly standard indie type band. My next band, Easytiger, was in Malvern, and we just played loud and fast. Easytiger were like my family and I still miss them... sigh...
When I moved to Cambridge, I found I couldn’t get the rest of Easytiger to come out of their caves in the Malvern hills and join me, so I found myself on my own doing acoustic solo stuff.
The songs on here were recorded a few months ago. Some of them are fairly new, some are songs that I wrote years ago and just rescued from the bottomless depths of my lyric book, thinking they might bear a second listen.
I am not doing much music at the moment because I am just about to give birth! :-)

My Interests

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Member Since: 03/02/2006
Band Website: http://www.samjanewatkins.co.uk
Band Members: I'm on my own right now...
Influences: All of, and always - Johnny Cash. Bob Dylan up until around Blood on the Tracks. Both Elvises. For lyrical genius - Tom Waits. Nick Cave. Leonard Cohen. Neil Young. Stones. Lucinda Williams. Gillian Welch. Alison Krauss. Emmy Lou Harris. Recent influences - Smog and Willy Mason both knock me sideways...
Sounds Like: Apparently a cross between Kirsty MacColl and Bob Dylan!! Fine by me... :-)
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

The Star Splitter

I just found this Robert Frost poem, which I love. It's very long but worth it! The Star-Splitter `You know Orion always comes up sideways. Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains, And rising o...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:32:00 GMT