Introducing Singer-Songwriter Kashena Sampson - Reformed Vegas Party Girl to make UK debut

INTRODUCING KASHENA SAMPSON

Reformed Vegas Party Girl, Now Nashville’s Hottest New Singer-Songwriter To Make UK Debut
UK Americana Awards Showcase At Paper Dress Vintage On 31 January

UK DEBUT SINGLE ‘IT’S A LONG WAY BACK’  - RELEASED 1 FEB

Supporting LA Band The Americans at  Oxford‘s The Bullingdon On 30 January

Event £12.00 + £1.20 Booking fee = £13.20

   

An East Nashville salute to the glory days of California country-rock, shot through with Seventies swoon and swagger - Rolling Stone

CHECK OUT RECENT TRACKS

WILD HEART 

Spotify or on Soundcloud

GREASY SPOON 

Spotify or on Soundcloud

Nashville’s hottest new singer-songwriter Kashena Sampson is soon to make her mark in the UK with her debut London performance at the UK Americana Awards at Paper Dress Vintage on 31 January and will release of her debut UK single ‘It’s A Long Way Back’ released on 1 Feb.

* UPDATE * She also supported LA band The Americans when they played Oxford’s The Bullingdon on 30 January. 

Kashena made her mark in the UK with her debut London performance at the UK Americana Awards at Paper Dress Vintage with a packed music industry showcase celebrating the release of her debut UK single ‘It’s A Long Way Back’.

UK media have already offered strong support with a high profile premiere and song of the day feature on Folk Radio UK, features on tastemaker sites including The 405 and performances on BBC Radio Oxford.

Her debut UK single It's A Long Way Back is now available on
Amazon UK – iTunes - Soundcloud

A timeless enchantress, Kashena combines a 70s folk-rock aesthetic and sound, which draws on a California country and classic Laurel Canyon, quickly garnered flattering comparisons to giants such as Nicks, Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt as well as cult heroes such as Barbara Keith, Jim Croce and Bobbie Gentry.

Kashena is not afraid to wear her heart on her sleeve and her unique and interesting life shines through her beautifully crafted songwriting and though her super sonic vocal powers that could shake the walls of an opera house. Her ability to embrace her own vulnerability and perseverance is more than apparent on her debut UK single ‘Long Way Back’ – no doubt drawing on life experiences including finding sobriety after years as a troubled Las Vegas party girl and her years balancing a demanding cruise ship singing career with dreams of becoming a professional singer-songwriter.

Like many before her, the modern starlet put everything in her rear view mirror in 2015, when on a whim, she found herself driving to Nashville with no solid plan other than wanting to make a record in Nashville.

Initially she struggled, and found working multiple side jobs including a local greasy spoon to make ends meet.

Finally her dreams came true when she I saved enough money from bartending to cut her debut record, WILD HEART at The Bomb Shelter in East Nashville with top Nashville based players including Jon Estes co-producing as well as playing bass, Jeremy Fetzer on guitar, and Jon Radford on drums.

Despite its self-release, the record was a cult hit last year in the USA and was heaped with praise from esteemed media including Rolling Stone, who compared her to her hero, Stevie Nicks.

Reflecting on her success Kashena looks back on the experiences that forged her honest song writing and taught her persistence and to never give up on her dreams,

“My experiences taught me a whole lot. Taught me about performing and about life. I did a lot of living and learning out there and I'm grateful for it. I wouldn’t change it for anything.” 

Kashena Sampson will play Paper Dress Vintage on 31 January as part of the UK Americana Awards Showcase.

She plans to officially re-release her album WILD HEART in 2018 - watch this space!

I'm off to Americana Music Association UK ✨ Got my Fleetwood Mac shirt on and I'm ready to fly 
Posted by Kashena Sampson on Friday, 26 January 2018

The WHITE HEART album was first released in America on 18 Aug 2017 on New Moon Records

10 Tracks/ Time: 36:43 Folk Bandcamp – US iTunes -  Amazon.com – CD/ Vinyl Website Store

Rollingstone.com: Sounds Like: An East Nashville salute to the glory days of California country-rock, shot through with Seventies swoon and swagger

For Fans of: Bobbie Gentry's string arrangements, Steve Nicks' vibrato, Erin Rae's crooning calm

Why You Should Pay Attention: Before heading to Nashville, Sampson logged three years aboard a luxury cruise ship, singing her way through nightly sets of Sixties and Seventies folk covers. "You're pulled out of real life," she says of the gig, which took her across much of the globe. "I got home and I didn't know any new music or movies." That out-of-time feeling resurfaces with this summer's Wild Heart, a debut album filled with vintage strings, B3 organ, Telecaster twang and big-voiced ballads worthy of Linda Ronstadt. Joined by several members of Steelism, Sampson recorded the album in two days, carving out a sound that smooths and softens the neon-bright polish of Top 40 country to a warm, analog glow.

Digitalfix.com - Lead single 'Greasy Spoon' was a rollicking honky tonk-er, painting a technicolour picture of Nashville's famous Biscuit House, but the tone of Wild Heart is more considered and softer.

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