"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 4/12/24)
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Real Live Certified
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Critic Consensus
Based on 15 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Samantha Crain is rated as an enjoyable live performer, with some notable strengths. Samantha Crain concert reviews describe live shows and performances as melancholic and lovely.
Samantha Crain (born August 15, 1986 in Shawnee, Oklahoma) is a Choctaw-American songwriter, musician, and singer. Crain's first recording was the 2007 self-released EP The Confiscation.
Has Performed With
First Aid Kit
Critic Concert Reviews
MAGNET Magazine (USA)
March 29, 2019
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Songs In The Night: Samantha Crain Makes A House Call In Philadelphia
The light was dim and the room was full of appreciative folk aficionados, captivated and intently listening to the mostly melancholic songs on display.
With her hairline-fracture voice the 28-year-old Oklahoman breathes life into a series of vividly drawn characters who exist on the fringes their ambitions often reduced by inescapable circumstance.
We’re spending the afternoon catching up on some past work that has fallen through the cracks in the past couple of weeks, and one of those gems was our coverage of Samantha Crain and First Aid Kit’s beyond-lovely show at the Roseland Theater last month.
On paper, the pairing of Crain and sisters Johanna