Comments on: Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers – Interview & Live Review from Pickathon 2008

By: Samantha Crain & the Midnight Shivers - Songs in the Night | Song, by Toad

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:45:12 +0000

[...] favourite emerging artists on one of my favourite record labels – Ramseur in North Carolina. We interviewed her and guitarist Jacob at last year’s Pickathon Festival in Portland, and they were genuinely lovely people, so [...]

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:34:26 +0000

Thought you’d be pleased to find that out.

By: Izzy

Izzy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:43:40 +0000

Aaaaah………

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:38:51 +0000

You know my dad responds with exactly that when I call him and old git – ‘less of the old’.

By: Izzy

Izzy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:35:37 +0000

Less of the old…….

I am enamoured with this girls voice, cockney or southern american.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:59:05 +0000

Erm, I think it may be just you (you mad old tart). Erm, but yes, agreed – gorgeous. The thing is, the songs are in many ways quite simple too, but perhaps that’s the beauty of them.

By: Izzy

Izzy — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:53:33 +0000

Been listening to this most of the morning, and it’s truly lovely. Her voice is delightful and the tunes are just simply and entlrely absorbing.

Is it just me or does her voice take a cockney twang in some of her songs (maybe just me). Especially in Beloved we have Expired which i have listened to over and over (maybe too much!)

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:21:53 +0000

Indeed I shall. I shall be recording my own podcast that evening as well.

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:16:45 +0000

Oh, he had a point, I agree, but he kinda stepped in & on far too heavily & made a scene where no scene was necessary; basically it was an NYPD vet squaring up to a stoner door monkey & I kinda recognised he, my compadre, was way out of the stratosphere of cool behaviour – regardless of the rights or wrongs or alleged laziness of whomever was or wasn’t involved. Listen to Wednesday’s show & I’ll elaborate on how much he fecked things up during most of the trip.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:38:37 +0000

I once got annoyed with a doorman and called him a houseplant.

He seemed quite hurt.