Sammy Brue 'The Journals' Album Release Show

Sammy Brue pays tribute to his mentor by writing, finishing, or re-imagining never-before-recorded songs found in Earle’s journals, entrusted to Sammy by Justin’s widow. Some of the songs on the album are based on lyric sheets Brue found. Others are co-writes or songs Brue wrote based on compilations of ideas and little paragraphs Earle wrote. Fans of Justin Townes Earle will be grateful to Brue for this lovingly crafted album and will become more familiar again with a singer and songwriter dedicated to bringing the beauty of folk to the world.

A 21st-century troubadour who spins layered story songs that deal with the sunlight and shadows of the human condition, Sammy Brue follows in the authentic outlaw songwriter lineage of Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Rodney Crowell, and Justin Townes Earle. Brue's new album, The Journals, pays tribute to his mentor by writing, finishing, or re-imagining never-before-recorded songs taken directly from Earle’s journals, entrusted to Sammy by Justin’s widow. Some of the songs on the album are based on lyric sheets Brue found. Others are co-writes or songs Brue wrote based on compilations of ideas and little paragraphs Earle wrote. Sammy Brue showcases his lyrical ingenuity, his musical versatility, his innovative songwriting style, and his ringing vocal style on his new album. Like a poet, he commands attention with a vibrant opening chord and a vivid lyric; Brue pulls listeners into his story world, and they’re transfixed by his sometimes playful, always perceptive readings of the human heart. Fans of Justin Towne Earle will be grateful to Brue for this lovingly crafted album and will become more familiar again with a singer and songwriter dedicated to bringing the beauty of folk to the world.

Sammy first came on the radar of Rolling Stone Magazine at the age of 13. Recognized for his songwriting, Sammy started making waves in the Americana scene and was signed to New West Records for 2 studio records "I Am Nice" and "Crash Test Kid" and independently released his latest album "Nocturnal Country" Sammy started touring and making friends with some of the biggest names around. Starting with a full national tour with his friend and mentor Justin Townes Earle, to touring internationally with The Marcus King Band, Sammy graced stages all around the world by the age of 18. Rooted firmly in his folk style of writing, Sammy was named one of six teenagers changing music by the New Yorker Magazine. he has defined himself as being a working musician and songwriter at his core.

Sammy has opened and toured with artists like Billy Strings, Mike Campbell, Lindsey Buckingham, The Marcus King Band, Justin Townes Earle, Steve Earle, Michael Kiwanuka, John Paul White, Lucinda Williams, Rodriguez, Iron and Wine, John Moreland, Margo Price, Hayes Carll, Asleep at the wheel, and many more.

Sammy has played festivals and events such as Newport Folk Festival, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Moab Folk Fest, Twilight Series (Ogden), and Americana Fest.

Daniel Young is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, drummer, sound engineer, and producer from Salt Lake City. He grew up on the side of a tall mountain, and that sense of forceful elevation informs all of his work. Daniel's been recording and performing for over two decades—and he's not that old, which tells you much of what you need to know about his commitment to craft, about how deep this runs with him.

There's a heft to the light in the early evening, when every easterly surface shines. That mayfly incandescence, where nothing gold can stay, though it might flash long enough for you to touch its flaming tail. That's the light Daniel Young captures on Another Golden Hour: it was absorbed on the side patio where the songs were born, carried to the basement where they were magnetized, and it's now refracted back to the air around our heads, where those same songs will fade and be reborn. A small resurrection, a rotational miracle; another day, another golden hour. Recorded at Orchard Studios over a two-day session with only a handful of overdubs, Young worked once again with the Rambling Roses, the same crew he had along for 2024's Leave It Out to Dry. They achieve a rare merger of time, texture, and temperament—a unity that miraculously preserves the uncanny elements of each component.

These songs extend Young's abiding interests—and the crazy quilt of his life and times: "Baby, Baby Blue" is a tribute to the dearly departed KSOP (AM 1370), a seventy-year veteran of the good fight of country music and its amplitude modulations; "Holdin' Up" is an earnest question issued to the new depression; "Fires Shall Be Ceased" and "Ways to Communicate" draw on the righteous, rangy energy of a protest tradition that reaches back to Woody Guthrie and the ghosts of Joe Hill that haunt the Wasatch; the title cut is a wavey, dripping distillation of all the sounds that have been trailing Young over the years. Another Golden Hour is a bid for hard-earned hope. You better believe it.

Hailing from the high-desert basin of the Great Salt Lake, Smith’s candid, unaffected songwriting and musical ideology can perhaps be described as complexity within simplicity, cast in the same mold as folk-roots musicians such as Leonard Cohen, John Prine or Townes Van Zandt