Not just an amazing guitar player but a wonderful voice and an indefinably attractive rock persona. You can be watched indefinitely: all power to you dear lady!
Jennifer Batten lives near where I call home. She is light years ahead of where I will ever get to. Many players are, everywhere I go. Just keep playing!
I love Samantha's playing, but really love interviews where you get to know her. I had a similar experience in high school chorus class. I was doing Christmas songs, Disney soundtracks and trite song assignments when I was there to learn how to sound like Joan Jett and Ann Wilson.
Mary Spender has been doing a thing about providing guitars for kids here in the UK and she plays a similar finger style. It would be interesting to hear the two hook up.
Mary Spender is great, but is pure finger style and VERY rarely use a pick; Samantha almost always uses a pick and hybrid picks. Their styles are very different.
A video of that was the track that flipped the switch in my head and really got me to listen to so much more of her music and then I was lucky enough to see her do it a couple of years ago as the encore in Birmingham - the home of Sabbath. Mind blown!
The Aztec Gold “1956” Strat appears to be a ‘65. It’s got a rosewood fretboard, which happened in ‘59, anf the mid-‘60s transition logo on the headstock.
I wonder if the percussive quality that is so prominent in hill country blues got there because drums were forbidden in slavery times. It may have been a way to celebrate their roots within their bondage. Thank you for keeping blues alive.
What a lot of younger players don't realize is they are young. When the teacher tells you that you are holding the guitar wrong it's because if you play that way for 20 years your back and joints will be f@$%%* up even though it feels comfortable today.
If she thinks she has things difficult now, she should talk with Fanny, Girlschool and the Runaways. They had things tough, respect wise. She's correct about playing guitar. The ergonomics are the same for male or female.
Samantha, You are a terrific guitar player and singer. Irrespective of your sex or gender. I binge on your performances and you inspire me to play guitar and express myself every time. Thank you for you amazing career.
It's absurd a guitar teacher would say her technique is garbage, but not surprising. Great artists will listen to the mechanics and procedures then break the rules.
A female blues guitarist isn't niche or novelty, and I must stress this is my perception of things, but it's a trifle rare. So when a talented woman appears on the scene, there's an element of "See? Where are the rest of your sisters out there?" It must be said the stereotype for women is they gravitate to singing, of which Samantha Fish is quite talented as well. But music is an ever harsher business. And that more than sexist prerogatives could be the larger reason women don't pick up guitar. The investment in time and gear to become financially successful in such a cutthroat industry could make a sensible young woman with conventional private ambitions away from the stage to turn their hands to a more stable paycheck. Under such circumstances, Samantha Fish is not only talented but also resolute.
It's funny people telling people they're doing it wrong. You're holding the guitar wrong or your technique sucks... What do you think Muddy or Robert Johnson would have said to some GIT or Berklee grad telling them their technique is wrong?! Lol
What a joke. If the world was blind she would be less than mediocre but she is a visual rendition of a little blue pill for the 50 and up crowd. Sad sad days ahead if this is what the blues has turn to.
Agreed. I love the notion, that people look at a female guitarist in different way. Come on, women have been playing forever. I don't buy it & I feel when people talk that way it takes away from their credibility.
