Under Branch & Thorn & Tree
This album was recorded at Tiny Telephone in San Francisco, CA. It was engineered and mixed by Jacob Winik and produced by John Vanderslice. It was mastered by Bernie Grundman. The album boasts its fully analog recording, mixing, and mastering process. The album features the Magik*Magik Orchestra led by Minna Choi. John Calvin Abney, Jesse Aycock (Hard Working Americans, Secret Sisters), Reed Mathis (Tea Leaf Green, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey), Anne Lillis (Jessica Lea Mayfield, White Pines), and Meric Long (The Dodos) are all featured musicians on the record. The Guardian, Uncut, Rolling Stone, No Depression, and Blurt Magazine all reviewed the album with critical praise. A music video for the song "Killer" was produced by Dorian Electra and Weston G. Allen. Also a video for "Kathleen" was produced by Lamar + Nik.
The Oklamhoman artist’s traditional heartbroken Americana is leavened by truck-driving swagger and gentle folk
The fact that Samantha Crain recently finished a stint opening for Buffy Sainte-Marie should tell you a lot about the direction her music takes on her fourth album, Under Branch & Thorn & Tree.
Under Branch & Thorn & TreeArtist: Samantha CrainGenre: Singer / SongwriterLabel: Full Time HobbyLast year's album, Kid Face, was for many the first introduction to Oklahoma-born Samantha Crain, a singer-songwriter whose initial interest in short story writing was sidetracked when she realised she could say in four minutes what would take her much longer to say through thousands of words.