The gang over at Team Sam Bradley have posed an excellent question to all of Sam's fans... What song would you LOVE to see Sam cover.
Here are a few of A Soulful Sound's picks:
Stay With Me - Rod Stewart
Love and Happiness - Al Green
Be My Downfall - Del Amitri
and ANYTHING by Marc Broussard
Can't you just hear it?
For more great fan suggestions follow along HERE
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Sam Bradley - Little Sister
While Sam is currently very busy finishing up the recording process on his next release we can only wait.. and hope Little Sister makes the cut!
Stunning.
Stunning.
Sam Bradley -- Photo Shoot in Vancouver
From yesterday's photo shoot in Vancouver.
Sam is certainly looking stylish in large part due to hair stylist, Katrina Molson who shared this photo on Facebook.
Sam is certainly looking stylish in large part due to hair stylist, Katrina Molson who shared this photo on Facebook.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Fan Photos From Sam Bradley's Recent Hawaiian Gigs At The Venue
Saturday, October 15, 2011
The Swerve Magazine Interviews Sam Bradley
The very cool, very hip Swerve Magazine, interviews Sam Bradley
Heavenly Shades Of Night Are Calling
SM: You just recently played a number of dates with Jenny Owen Youngs and Hank & Cupcakes. How did that tour come to be?
SB: I don’t know exactly. I think we are under the same booking agency. I met Jenny a couple of years ago. She came to a show of mine in New York and she said it would be great to tour with you.
I had been recording in LA recently and wanted to go on tour. I asked my booking agent if there was anything going on and she said Jenny was going on tour. So, I said, “Oh, let’s do it.”
So, that is how it came to be.
SM: You were born in London and are now living in Canada or LA?
SB: To be quite honest, I’m homeless. I am living in my van. I haven’t been living in Canada proper for three years now. I spent some time in Nashville on and off. I go back to London. I try and keep moving; I get pretty frustrated if I stay still.
SM: Really? Is there a reason why, like you need the new surroundings?
SB: Yeah, I’m running away from my problems. And I don’t have to pay a tax anywhere. No, I’m just kidding.
No, I got friends all over the place and I like to try and see as many people as I can. It is just the nature of what I like to do, travel and play music and keep writing. All that stuff.
SM: Does traveling help with the writing process?
SB: It keeps it fresh. When I go to England I will write more of an English song than I would if I were in the South, like Texas, for a country song. It definitely affects me.
SM: The “Hippie for a Night” song you have been doing live, which is a dead-on precise hit on hipster culture; could you elaborate on where that song came from and what inspired you to write it? And let me ask you to please get that song on tape as I would love a copy to pass around to friends, it was so good.
SB: It was basically just my reaction to the festival season and all the kids and people going out and thinking that they are part of this grand old hippie movement. I love festivals. Go out and have fun, but don’t think you are something you are not.
So, I wrote this song from this reaction and it is called “Hippie for a Night.”
SM: Is that song going on the next album? Say yes.
SB: I actually hadn’t written it when I did the tracking for the new album. It is a folky-kind-of-acoustic song, so I think that I might stick it on the album.
It is a band album that I am working on and I usually tour with my band. But for this tour, it was good to just go out alone.
So, yeah, I was considering it. I was talking about it today and it has been getting a great reaction which I didn’t actually expect.
SM: Really? The lyrics are so dead-on for that hipster movement. That is why I think people love that song. I know that is why I love it.
SB: Well, thank you.
SM: You gave voice to the very same thoughts that I have had.
SB: That is good to hear.
SM: I hope you do get some version of it recorded somehow someday.
SB: Yeah, maybe, I intend to... who knows, maybe this conversation will inspire me to go and do it.
SM: I hope so, seriously. That song needs to be heard by the masses.
SB: What would be amazing is if I got started on the festival circuit just from that song.
SM: When is the new album coming out?
SB: I don’t have a release date. My big focus is getting it finished after these tours. So after these are done, I’m heading back to Los Angeles to finish up. I am hoping that I will be there for a like a month more to make sure everything is as I want it, that it is as raw enough because that has been my problem with past recordings.
I am hoping it comes out before Christmas, but it just depends. I am an independent guy and I self-released everything so far. It would be great in an ideal world to have a bigger team backing me for a release, but if it is not this one then maybe it will be the next one.
SM: We have to talk about your involvement with the “Twilight” soundtrack. Has it helped or hindered your career?
SB: To be honest, it has helped. I have been able to get on board with great tours, I have been able to record my own albums and I have been able to have two great booking agents, a great manager and that all came around that time.
Because I had an “in” (for the soundtrack), and most importantly, there was an audience that was there, I could show up in, say, Cleveland and there would be people coming out. Before if I would have done this by myself and I didn’t have something like that platform, no one would know. It has definitely helped.
The difficulty is now it has been three years since that happened, so the difficulty is now moving on from it.
SM: How do you move on from it? How do you distance yourself from that to where you are today?
SB: I don’t think I need to distance myself from it. I did it as a writer. It happened and I’m proud of it. I’m 25 years old and that is a big achievement. It’s fucking cool, so I don’t need to distance myself. I hope I am on the right path, and keep doing what I am doing. And playing and supporting artist with great fucking integrity like Jenny for example.
SM: That is a giant accomplishment to have under your belt at 25.
SB: The soundtrack sold like four million copies, which is, like, amazing.
SM: In this day and age, any number near that is amazing.
SB: Exactly.
SM: So you said you had ‘in’ on the soundtrack. Was it through a producer you worked with or was it through some other source?
SB: Yeah, I am friends with Rob, the lead guy in the film. We went to school together. We are good friends together.
SM: Oh, I did not know that...that’s really cool.
SB: Yeah, we are childhood friends.
SM: So I take it then you have been to all the premieres. That had to have been a trip.
SB: Yeah, it has been crazy. It is crazy to see (Pattinson) up there on the screen doing his thing. It is big. It is bigger than I think he even realizes.
SM: Going back that is what I meant when I said distancing yourself from the juggernaut that is “Twilight.” With it being so big, how do you get any space from it?
SB: It’s easy. It doesn’t affect me like that. I have had the same set of ideas and goals since I decided I wanted to do this for a living.
SM: So the new record, you said you want it to sound more raw?
SB: Yeah, definitely more raw. I want it to sound— I hate all these words like “organic” and all that shit as they are so overused. I don’t want it to sound produced. I want it to sound natural. I want the instruments to sound real. I want as little sound effects as possible.
I want the sound to be full, because there is an electric guitar, there is an acoustic guitar there, and a piano. So, basically, I found a great producer that was good to just basically put a microphone in front of it.
SM: That is interesting as even what passes for plain old rock music these days has a lot of production that goes missing to a lot of ears.
SB: Sure, I agree.
SM: It is refreshing to hear that someone wants to go into the studio and just record a live album basically.
SB: If I had my way, I would just put a microphone in the middle of the room and that would be how I would like it to record. But, obviously, it just would sound like shit, but if it worked that is how I would like to do it.
SM: You sound like you have an almost Jack White approach to recording; of getting all the electronic new equipment out and just going old-school in the recording process.
SB: Yes, he is a perfect example.
SM: So the record hits around Christmas and then you tour to support it?
SB: Yeah, I hope. I better be touring to support it. But we will see. There are a lot of factors that determine what happens next. My biggest want is to expand as much as possible and try and get as many people to hear it as possible.
SM: Sound like a plan. And please, please get “Hippie for a Night” on tape.
SB: Will do. (laughing)
SB: I don’t know exactly. I think we are under the same booking agency. I met Jenny a couple of years ago. She came to a show of mine in New York and she said it would be great to tour with you.
I had been recording in LA recently and wanted to go on tour. I asked my booking agent if there was anything going on and she said Jenny was going on tour. So, I said, “Oh, let’s do it.”
So, that is how it came to be.
SM: You were born in London and are now living in Canada or LA?
SB: To be quite honest, I’m homeless. I am living in my van. I haven’t been living in Canada proper for three years now. I spent some time in Nashville on and off. I go back to London. I try and keep moving; I get pretty frustrated if I stay still.
SM: Really? Is there a reason why, like you need the new surroundings?
SB: Yeah, I’m running away from my problems. And I don’t have to pay a tax anywhere. No, I’m just kidding.
No, I got friends all over the place and I like to try and see as many people as I can. It is just the nature of what I like to do, travel and play music and keep writing. All that stuff.
SM: Does traveling help with the writing process?
SB: It keeps it fresh. When I go to England I will write more of an English song than I would if I were in the South, like Texas, for a country song. It definitely affects me.
SM: The “Hippie for a Night” song you have been doing live, which is a dead-on precise hit on hipster culture; could you elaborate on where that song came from and what inspired you to write it? And let me ask you to please get that song on tape as I would love a copy to pass around to friends, it was so good.
SB: It was basically just my reaction to the festival season and all the kids and people going out and thinking that they are part of this grand old hippie movement. I love festivals. Go out and have fun, but don’t think you are something you are not.
So, I wrote this song from this reaction and it is called “Hippie for a Night.”
SM: Is that song going on the next album? Say yes.
SB: I actually hadn’t written it when I did the tracking for the new album. It is a folky-kind-of-acoustic song, so I think that I might stick it on the album.
It is a band album that I am working on and I usually tour with my band. But for this tour, it was good to just go out alone.
So, yeah, I was considering it. I was talking about it today and it has been getting a great reaction which I didn’t actually expect.
SM: Really? The lyrics are so dead-on for that hipster movement. That is why I think people love that song. I know that is why I love it.
SB: Well, thank you.
SM: You gave voice to the very same thoughts that I have had.
SB: That is good to hear.
SM: I hope you do get some version of it recorded somehow someday.
SB: Yeah, maybe, I intend to... who knows, maybe this conversation will inspire me to go and do it.
SM: I hope so, seriously. That song needs to be heard by the masses.
SB: What would be amazing is if I got started on the festival circuit just from that song.
SM: When is the new album coming out?
SB: I don’t have a release date. My big focus is getting it finished after these tours. So after these are done, I’m heading back to Los Angeles to finish up. I am hoping that I will be there for a like a month more to make sure everything is as I want it, that it is as raw enough because that has been my problem with past recordings.
I am hoping it comes out before Christmas, but it just depends. I am an independent guy and I self-released everything so far. It would be great in an ideal world to have a bigger team backing me for a release, but if it is not this one then maybe it will be the next one.
SM: We have to talk about your involvement with the “Twilight” soundtrack. Has it helped or hindered your career?
SB: To be honest, it has helped. I have been able to get on board with great tours, I have been able to record my own albums and I have been able to have two great booking agents, a great manager and that all came around that time.
Because I had an “in” (for the soundtrack), and most importantly, there was an audience that was there, I could show up in, say, Cleveland and there would be people coming out. Before if I would have done this by myself and I didn’t have something like that platform, no one would know. It has definitely helped.
The difficulty is now it has been three years since that happened, so the difficulty is now moving on from it.
SM: How do you move on from it? How do you distance yourself from that to where you are today?
SB: I don’t think I need to distance myself from it. I did it as a writer. It happened and I’m proud of it. I’m 25 years old and that is a big achievement. It’s fucking cool, so I don’t need to distance myself. I hope I am on the right path, and keep doing what I am doing. And playing and supporting artist with great fucking integrity like Jenny for example.
SM: That is a giant accomplishment to have under your belt at 25.
SB: The soundtrack sold like four million copies, which is, like, amazing.
SM: In this day and age, any number near that is amazing.
SB: Exactly.
SM: So you said you had ‘in’ on the soundtrack. Was it through a producer you worked with or was it through some other source?
SB: Yeah, I am friends with Rob, the lead guy in the film. We went to school together. We are good friends together.
SM: Oh, I did not know that...that’s really cool.
SB: Yeah, we are childhood friends.
SM: So I take it then you have been to all the premieres. That had to have been a trip.
SB: Yeah, it has been crazy. It is crazy to see (Pattinson) up there on the screen doing his thing. It is big. It is bigger than I think he even realizes.
SM: Going back that is what I meant when I said distancing yourself from the juggernaut that is “Twilight.” With it being so big, how do you get any space from it?
SB: It’s easy. It doesn’t affect me like that. I have had the same set of ideas and goals since I decided I wanted to do this for a living.
SM: So the new record, you said you want it to sound more raw?
SB: Yeah, definitely more raw. I want it to sound— I hate all these words like “organic” and all that shit as they are so overused. I don’t want it to sound produced. I want it to sound natural. I want the instruments to sound real. I want as little sound effects as possible.
I want the sound to be full, because there is an electric guitar, there is an acoustic guitar there, and a piano. So, basically, I found a great producer that was good to just basically put a microphone in front of it.
SM: That is interesting as even what passes for plain old rock music these days has a lot of production that goes missing to a lot of ears.
SB: Sure, I agree.
SM: It is refreshing to hear that someone wants to go into the studio and just record a live album basically.
SB: If I had my way, I would just put a microphone in the middle of the room and that would be how I would like it to record. But, obviously, it just would sound like shit, but if it worked that is how I would like to do it.
SM: You sound like you have an almost Jack White approach to recording; of getting all the electronic new equipment out and just going old-school in the recording process.
SB: Yes, he is a perfect example.
SM: So the record hits around Christmas and then you tour to support it?
SB: Yeah, I hope. I better be touring to support it. But we will see. There are a lot of factors that determine what happens next. My biggest want is to expand as much as possible and try and get as many people to hear it as possible.
SM: Sound like a plan. And please, please get “Hippie for a Night” on tape.
SB: Will do. (laughing)
Saturday, October 8, 2011
Sam Bradley --VIDEO!! Soulful Seattle Sounds!!
Video from Sam's recent performance at El Corazón, Seattle on Thursday, October 6, 2011
Thank you Christy!! (a/k/a (@c82blue)
Thank you Christy!! (a/k/a (@c82blue)
Friday, October 7, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Sam Bradley - Show Report and Video from San Francisco, Hotel Utah
San Francisco, CA
October 4, 2011
Show Reporter: Sabrina (a/k/a PurpleBrina)
My trip to San Francisco started off a little crazy. After delayed flights and lots of rain, I finally made there. The Utah, the bar where Sam was performing, is a cozy little bar with a relaxing local feel to it. It reminded me of Cheers, everyone seemed to know everyone’s name.Too Far Gone
I’ve been to several of Sam’s shows. There are many reasons I enjoy watching Sam perform, but the main reason is because he truly loves what he does. He is at home on stage. His emotions flow through him and out to the crowd. When he is on stage, he has this amazing ability to make you feel his pain, his happiness, his silliness, his loss and his love. When he sang Too Far Gone, I do believe I actually had tears in my eyes.
After the show, Sam stayed for awhile, mingling, talking and taking pictures with fans.SoHo Girls
I’m including a few videos I took at the show that night. I’m sure you will enjoy them but it’s nothing like seeing him live.
Difference Between Whiskey and You
Passport
Thank you Sam Bradley for being who you are! PLEASE don't ever change!
Sam is truly a beautiful soul. If you haven't had the opportunity to see Sam Bradley perform, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR??? You have to go see one of his shows before this tour ends. Tell him PurpleBrina sent you.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Sam Bradley -- VIDEO !!! Wake Up 2 Day Appearance -- Hololulu Hawaii
Video of Sam's appearance on KHON2's WAKEUP2Day
First Pics!! Sam Bradley - Hotel Utah Saloon, San Francisco
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| Photo Credit: @PurpleBrina17 |
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| Photo Credit: @mholshev |
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| Photo Credit: @HeartsKaos |
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| Photo Credit: @musingsonother |
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| Photo Credit: Kathy Hewett Tsudama |
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
SHOW REPORT! Sam Bradley, September 30 - October 1 - The Venue - Honolulu, HI
The Venue
Honolulu, HI
September 30, 2011
October 1, 2011
One of the best acoustic concerts of the year occurred this last Friday and Saturday night at the Venue deep at the heart of eclectic and historic Chinatown in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Along side a thirst-quenched crowd, Frank Taua III opened up the evening with a blend of country and local style songs that both entertained and prepared the patrons for what was to come. Surprisingly, this unassuming musician with a melodic voice deemed the perfect compliment to the headlining performer, Sam Bradley. And as Taua played his last chords, the crowd of fans eagerly awaited.
“We cannot stop talking about him and his strong voice, that is more than able to express his feelings and how his music reaches into your soul and the words change your life... We feel as though we are not just fans but friends.” Wright added.
As Sam came out to set up, there were cheers of excitement at every move the revered singer/songer made; from the placement of his water bottles, to the taping of his set list--his fans were sure to let it be known that they were there to support him and ecstatic of his arrival in Hawaii which was to be Bradley’s first visit.
As the emcee broadcasted Bradley’s name, the crowd that had patiently waited screamed in anticipation. Sam did not disappoint.
Over all, Sam Bradley wow’d his newbie fans, including myself and delighted long-time ones. His presence and approachability lends to his popularity (after each show, Sam made it a point to talk with fans, sign autographs and even skirted a few moves as the dj began to play the evenings dance set). Sam Bradley made an indelible impression on Hawaii and fans were quickly tweeting after the shows how sorry they were to see him leave. If one could translate into words Sam’s performances here in Hawaii, it would be that it was somewhat magical, a bonding experience for both the artist and the listener. We can only hope that Sam will return to the islands, for he is already missed dearly.
malamapono a hui ho-take care, until we meet again
Show Reporter: Suzie Setzler
Suzie is a writer for Inside Out Hawaii Magazine
Photos by Suzie Setzler and are protected by copyright
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Sam Bradley The Toast Of Hawaii -- First Photos
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| Photo Credit: Suzie, Honolulu |
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