Sam Amidon: Graveyard Dispatch (Cincinnati Promo 1)
Channel: CincyCAC
Date: 2011-10-31

London-based singer Sam Amidon has won massive critical acclaim and a rabid cult following in the indie world for his ability to reinvent traditional songs and R. Kelly covers alike on guitar, banjo and fiddle, delivering them with eerily deadpan vocals that both charm and unsettle.

With 'Home Alone Inside My Head' Amidon presents his intuitive and radical reworkings of secular ballads, gospel, folk songs, and hymns with interludes of storytelling, field recordings, video, and hand-drawn cartoons.

Amidon gives voice to the love, hardship, and heartache in these age-old songs while interjecting his own open, improvisatory impulses in narrative and song structure. Much of the material in this multimedia performance draws from Amidon's extraordinary latest album "I See The Sign", which was arranged by composer Nico Muhly.

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