Oklahoma-based singer-songwriter Samantha Crain has released her new single “Ridin’ Out The Storm” via Real Kind Records. The Americana-tinted song paints a vivid picture of the storms and idle moments-in-between that rumble through our lives constantly – the rhythms between suffering and growth, absurdity and sincerity, excitement and mundanity.
“I was watching this TV show called “The Great” one night and this one line caught me,” says Samantha about the new track. “I’m sure it is based on some older, canonical text but, basically, it was this: “Let it go. It is a storm. They will never stop coming, but pass through and away. They always will.” To me, that seemed like the best way I could sum up the gist of living and I wanted to write an expansive song about how that has played out in my life.”
While “Ridin’ Out The Storm” and Samantha Crain’s previous single, “Dragonfly” serve as her first original releases since 2021’s “Pick Apart”, the Choctaw songwriter, musician, producer, and singer has left her fingerprint across the worlds of film & TV over the past few years.
Samantha has crafted music for several acclaimed projects, contributing a cover rendition of Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” for a pivotal scene in the Emmy-nominated FX series Reservation Dogs, and most recently composing the score for the award-winning feature film Fancy Dance starring Lily Gladstone.
“Ridin’ Out The Storm” arrives alongside the announcement of Samantha’s massive global headlining tour next year. Kicking off with a pair of home-state shows in Oklahoma next May, the tour will see her traveling to numerous cities in the UK, Europe and North America throughout the spring and summer of 2025. General on-sale tickets for the 42-date tour are available via Samantha’s website here.
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