Red Sammy

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Adam Trice's book shown above: In Places with Bad Lighting (Poems and Songs).



Photo: A. Frenyo



Photo: A. Frenyo



In 2005, local Baltimore songwriter, Adam Trice, founded the graveyard country rock band, Red Sammy. The band name, a reference to Flannery O'Connor's story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (1955), is a perfect pairing for the band's dark and menacing style.



Red Sammy draws upon a variety of both literary and musical influences including Flannery O'Connor, Ernest Hemingway, Anton Chekhov, William Faulkner, William Carlos Williams, Gerald Stern, Alejandro Escovedo, Tom Waits, Neil Young, The Pixies, Iggy Pop and The Stooges, Johnny Cash.



Graveyard Country Rock Music is like a Jackson Pollack black pouring, or a Robert Motherwell elegy. It is imbued with Garcia Lorca’s duende: “black sounds are the mystery.” Gritty, stark storytelling, part southwest rock, part Cash and Escovedo. Sparse, but accessible, there’s a thread that runs through the music, from Hawthorne and Poe (fitting, since we’re from Baltimore), to Faulkner and Flannery O’Conner.



Songwriter, Adam Trice, presents Red Sammy in various musical arrangements including solo, duo, and full-piece band performances. Baltimore area musicians that perform and/or have performed in Red Sammy include:Katie Feild (bass guitar, concertina, vocals), Josh Weiss (pedal steel, electric guitar, banjo), Nick Sjostrom (drums and percussion), Eric Friedman (keyboards, harmonica), Theron Melchior (bass, musical saw), J. Spence Holman (drums and percussion), Tony Calato (drums and percussion), William Harder (harmonica), Julia Oat-Judge (cello), John Decker (slide/resonator guitar), Adam Trice (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals).



Past performances, radio interviews, and national spotlight shows include: WYPR-FM (Baltimore, MD), WRYR-FM (Annapolis, MD), Ottobar Show w/ Mark Kozelek of Red House Painters, Metro Gallery (Baltimore, MD), Ottobar show w/ The Teeth, Caleb Stine, and Lawnchair (Baltimore, MD), Denver Underground Music Festival (Denver, Colorado), WNCW-FM (Spindale, NC), WDVX-FM Blue Plate Special (Knoxville, TN), 98.1-FM The River (Asheville, NC), The Fire (Philadelphia, PA), The Annex (Brooklyn, NY), Goodbye Blue Monday (Brooklyn, NY), G-Spot show with Deer Tick and Phosphorescent (Baltimore, MD), The Hexagon (Baltimore, MD), 8X10 Club (Baltimore, MD), Lo-Fi Social Club (Baltimore, MD), The Octoraro Hotel (Oxford, PA), Mum's in Federal Hill (Baltimore, MD), Theatre Project (Baltimore, MD), Talking Head Club (Baltimore, MD), DC9 (Washington, DC), Iota Club (Arlington, VA), Flat Rock Wine Shoppe (Flat Rock, NC), College Perk (College Park, MD), Shattered Wig Night 14K Cabaret (Baltimore, MD), The Depot (Baltimore, MD), Frazier's (Hampden, MD), Night of 1000 Dylans (Baltimore, MD), The Current Art Gallery (Baltimore, MD), Hamilton Arts Collective (Baltimore, MD), Roots Cafe (Baltimore, MD), Beacon Pub (Swannanoa, NC), Austin Grill (Silver Spring, MD), Sidebar (Baltimore, MD), Minas Art Gallery (Hampden, MD), Grog and Tankard (Washington, DC), Creative Alliance Theatre (Baltimore, MD), WUVT-FM (Blacksburg, VA), El Rancho Grande (Hampden, MD), Baltimore Hostel (Baltimore, MD), The Masoleum (Houston, TX), The Hornet (Denver, Colorado), Load of Fun (Baltimore, MD), Mobtown Studios Micro-show (Baltimore, MD), New Deal Cafe (Greenbelt, MD), Umbrella Radio (Hampden, MD) and many more.



REVIEWS:



"Singer/songwriter Adam Trice and his crew create finely honed, melancholy roots rock. Trice’s raspy baritone rides herd on quiet, ambling country rock, creating the perfect dusky atmosphere for the brooding tunes.tracks like “Songbird,” “Turn Away” and “Lord Don’t Break My Back” keep the mood both tuneful and mournful. If the band had appeared during the heyday of No Depression, it would have deservedly been a minor star. As it stands, Red Sammy certainly deserves attention on the strength of the music found here,"> The Big Takeover



".Trice husks and growls over melodic and brooding, intense and hypnotic backing from his band mates, in which Josh Weiss’s electric guitar stands out as it chimes out the melody. Trice tells tales of everyday darkness and despair while sounding like a man who gargles gravel in pints of bourbon. Nonetheless he does offer hope of at least some sort of tomorrow, even if it’s not necessarily a better one or an easy one to get to.



The band turns it up from time to time, as on “Lord Don’t Break My Back” but in general it’s all quietly intense stuff with a real raw power to the performances, and in Trice the band have a major songwriter who bears comparison with Malcolm Holcombe or Nick Cave. Not for the fainthearted perhaps but connoisseurs of the night should acquire forthwith,"> Americana UK



"It's freight-jumping, wedding ring-pawning music" Violet Glaze, Baltimore City Paper



Booking: redsammy@gmail.com