![]() ![]() I tried to record it in different studios and I played it live for some time but I couldn't quite get the exact feel, you know, while recording it in the studio. Gone For Good, the last song of the BOTW album, that was written years ago. "The songs were probably written, if I am not mistaken, a couple of years ago. Understanding that Fish had lots of material ready to be released, our website is keen to discover whether some of the songs of the Belle Of The West album were written while touring the Chills & Fever album or were they written long before the release of both records. It's an audio encyclopedia of history of American Music of the past and present, finely translated through the heart and soul of an artist in constant growth. To me, releasing two albums in one year was a strong, artistic push and I certainly feel in a very creative mood right now in my life".įor new and old fans of Samantha Fish, Belle Of The West is a fascinating album in many respects. These aspects added new flavors and colors to Belle Of The West, certainly different ones in comparison to the previous album that we did in Mississippi, which we recorded with local musicians as well. With Belle Of The West, we decided to go to Detroit to record the album, with this punk/rock Detroit soul band, with also added some New Orlean's horns. Chills & Fever was already an album with a strong identity and purpose. It felt just like the right time to do it. When I wrote the songs, I realized that I had enough material for two albums, so I said to myself: "You know what? If we sit on one longer than the other, it's not gonna hit people as much". "No, it wasn't a long term plan to release two albums in the same year. On that note, Bluebird Reviews was curious to ask the American artist whether releasing a second album was Fish's initial plan all along for 2017 or did she feel purely an artistic urge to release another album of songs that were framing exactly where Samantha Fish and her music are right now. With the great success that came with the album Chills & Fever, not many were expecting that Fish would have released a second album of equal beauty and intensity like Belle Of The West, taking everyone pleasantly by surprise. When we meet the winner of the 2017 Bluebird Reviews Award as Best Live Act (ex-aequo with Walter Trout) on a cold evening in the south of the United Kingdom, it's really remarkable to find the young artist, despite the long and challenging year she had so far (although a very gratifying one too, commercially and artistically speaking), so relaxed and in the great form, just few hours before hitting the stage at the historical venue The Brook, in the city of Southampton. In that respect, Kansas City's Prodigy guitarist and singer/songwriter Samantha Fish has fully demonstrated, in 2017, through the release of two stunning albums both released last year called Chills & Fever and Belle Of The West, that as long as you have got something of great impact and depth to say and to sing about through your songs, artistry should be never restrained, especially if you have got enough quality material to be released to the fans. On the other end and rather ironically, there has been (and there is still) an impressive amount of new and promising rising stars, displaying so much natural talent that, for some of them, it proves difficult to be contained in just one record. In the last decade or so, record labels have been increasingly in financial dismay, with most of them going bankrupt or even vanishing from the face of the earth completely. It's funny the way the circus of the music business works.
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