HiddenTrack #220 SAMMY KAY

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New Jersey has a solid reputation for raising successful singer-songwriters, with Sam Krajkowski aka Sammy Kay as another proof. Ten years after his debut album Fourth Street Singers and five years after his most recent full-length civil/WAR, he goes back to basics with a new LP called July 1960. It concerns ten stripped down punk-folk songs with imaginative storytelling about the finer details of life (as the musician explains: “This is me navigating being in my mid-thirties, chasing some kinda hope, and trying to get my thoughts off my chest while understanding who I am”), with a sparse instrumentation of pianos, pedal steel guitars and strings, and always those amazing gravelly vocals. Impressive and irresistible.

July 1960, produced, engineered and mixed by James Duckworth, is out now digitally, on CD and vinyl LP, through Sell the Heart Records (US) and Engineer Records (UK). Featuring Sammy Kay (vocals, acoustic guitar), John Calvin Abney (pedal steel, electric guitar, piano, mellotron, harmonica), Cory Tramontelli (upright bass) and Collin Thompson (trombone).

PS Sammy Kay has much more to offer; earlier this year he released a nice debut EP with his new ska project The Kilograms, which also includes Joe Gittleman (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones), Mike McDermott (The Bouncing Souls) and J Duckworth (Newport Secret Six).

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