The band: 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 Alexander (musical saw, bass guitar), Spence Holman (percussion), Tony Calato (percussion), William Harder (harmonica), Adam Trice (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals).
Influences
Songwriters: Alejandro Escovedo, Tom Waits, Frank Black, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, John Dee Graham, Lou Reed, and many more.
Writers: Anton Chekhov, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O'Connor, Walt Whitman, Gerald Stern, William Carlos Williams, Tom Waits, and many more.
Sounds Like
The band name Red Sammy comes from one of the character names in Flannery O'Connor's short story, "A Good Man is Hard to Find" (1955). To read this story, follow this book cover...
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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), Adam Trice (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals).
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
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Well, I probably won't be around Baltimore anytime soon, but I'll keep it in mind :) Would like to see you playing live. Love the atmosphere of your songs. Thanks for adding me and stay safe! RR
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Man-o-man... What an outstanding show last night at Mobtown Studios! You and Julia seriously outdid yourselves. And the song you dedicated to your Grandmother was nothing short of cinematic. Congrats on the new record!
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