Serious Sam Barrett

Location:
Leeds West Yorkshire, UK
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Folk / Blues / Country
Site(s):
Type:
Indie
Serious Sam plays raw roots music. Born and raised in Yorkshire, he sings the traditional music of his county and writes songs from the heart. Yorkshirecana is the word everyone is using to describe Sam's country/roots sound and it suits him down to the ground. His debut album “Close To Home” was released in August 09 and picked up rave reviews from the specialist folk/roots magazines and elsewhere. Artrocker rated the album 27th in their top 100 albums of 2009! He's turned a lot of heads with his songwriting, guitar playing and interpretation of traditional music and he has been selected as a showcasing artist at sxsw 2010.



Reviews Yorkshirecana bluegrass brilliance from Serious Sam. He plays a mean 12 string resonator, mixing songs about his home county with traditional southern folk stompers. There’s authenticity, there’s soul - someone to get very excited about.”- ARTROCKER.COM Deliciously home-grown, this is a rewarding collection of songs that could well renew your faith in underground folk scenes. This stripped down and raw album is riddled with the gritty reality of this artist's Northern life and makes no apologies ACOUSTIC MAGAZINE “An endlessly playable delight from beginning to end”- VINTAGE GUITAR MAGAZINE (USA) “Barrett has become a master of his craft”-BLUES MATTERS MAGAZINE Old before his years country-folk fellow who mixes intricate John Fahey fingerpicking with confessional tales of dirty old Leeds-THE GUARDIAN (PICK OF THE WEEK) Serious Sam Barrett plays traditional songs and his own compositions from the Leeds delta on a big 12-string guitar and resonator. Close To Home, his debut album is bright and brash and very good. ROCK N' REEL MAGAZINE (R2) "In Today's British music scene the freshest sound is that of Serious Sam Barrett"ROCKLOUDER.CO.UK>"Heartier praise cannot really be given to Sam's songwriting than by saying you'd be hard pressed to work out which songs were his and which were old" SANDMAN"Sam seriously sparkles when he brings his take on pre-WW2 string driven sounds straight to twentieth century Yorkshire. Treasure him for that rich uniqueness" MONO MAGAZINE "From the first track "Tongue Tied Blues" and it's sliding railroad riff asking where his sweet heart has gone I was hooked" YOUCRAZYDREAMERS.COM



Live Reviews

Serious Sam Barrett, a man so talented he'll never be famous ROCKLOUDER.CO.UK



I came accross a man who played about what he knew and what he did'nt know, and in a style that was older than he was, but in a voice that could'nt have been anyone else's BLUES MATTERS MAGAZINE



Barrett's folk style celebrates the wide world of music it draws from - honest tunes - and his own work adds to this. He plays with an open heart and wins others DALLIANCE.CO.UK
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