Samantha Fish: smashing guitars, hecklers, and the liberating power of not giving a f**k
FeaturesClassic RockBy Henry Yates( Classic Rock ) published 12 October 2021 Kansas City gunslinger Samantha Fish on smashing up guitars,shooting down sexists and shaking off the covid blues Had you pulled up a bar stool at Kansas City’s Knuckleheads club in the noughties, you couldn’t have missed Samantha Fish. Patently underage, but with an old-soul guitar touch steeped in the Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt and Stevie Ray Vaughan, the loitering blonde quickly segued from chancer to crowd favourite, then from local legend to the pride of Ruf Records’ blues roster.At the age of 32, Fish has released her seventh album, Faster, which still bears the thumbprint of those first influences, while also throwing pop, electronica and even a guest rapper at the wall. “The trick for me,” she says, “is making something modern, but also timeless.”Faster isn’t your average dreary pandemic album.No. I was surprised by that myself. I credit a lot of that positivity to meeting Martin Kierszenbaum, the pr...