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♪ #nowplaying Willow street - Ganavya & Sam Amidon (Would be better - 2025) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #The6MixWithMaryAnneHobbs Sam Amidon: 🎵 How Come That Blood #6music #SamAmidon ▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

BBC Radio 6 Music The 6 Mix with Mary Anne Hobbs Now Playing Ganavya & Sam Amidon Would Be Better

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I can't be bothered to do an End of Year playlist, and it would be mostly Cameron Winter anyway, but just to say that two records I think deserved more love in everyone's lists are the Mac Demarco album Guitar, and Sam Amidon's Salt River ❤️

I was listening to Sam Amidon in the car and feel like I went through an inter-dimensional portal. 🤪

BBC Radio 6 Music Mary Anne Hobbs Now Playing Ganavya & Sam Amidon Willow (feat. Sam Gendel)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DreamTime Ganavya & Sam Amidon: 🎵 Would Be Better #6music #Ganavya #SamAmidon #newRelease - 🆕 single ▶️ 🆕🪄 Automagic 📻 playlist: 👉 New releases played on #Radio6Music 👈 #NowPlaying▶️ Song/Cover on #Bandcamp:

Very enjoyable gig with Beth Orton & Sam Amidon in @dolanslimerick.bsky.social tonight. Also lovely to meet #Limerick Bluesky royalty @margaretcahillbsky.bsky.social @tararoonies.bsky.social & @susangriff.bsky.social

WOULD BE BETTER - a new song by Ganavya and Sam Amidon

WOULD BE BETTER - a new song by Ganavya and Sam Amidon

Our latest Mixtape is a blend of folk and ambient textures ft Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Jana Horn, Iona Zajac, San Fermin & Sam Amidon, Joe Westerlund, Joseph Allred, Great Lake Swimmers, Nina Nastasia, Steve Gunn & David Moore, and more. www.mixcloud.com/folkradiouk/...

some fave books read in 2025

Our latest Mixtape is a blend of folk and ambient textures featuring Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Jana Horn, Iona Zajac, San Fermin & Sam Amidon, Joe Westerlund, Isik Kural, Joseph Allred, Emily A. Sprague, M. Sage, Steve Gunn & David Moore, and more. klofmag.com/2025/12/mixt...

2025 IN REVIEW

2025 IN REVIEW

AOTY! Gift Songs – Jefre Cantu-Ledesma The Making – Lavinia Blackwall Interior Live Oak – Cass McCombs Blurr – Joanne Robertson Like a Ribbon – John Glacier Night Fishing on a Calm Lake – Jerkcurb Big city life – Smerz Salt River – Sam Amidon Getting Killed – Geese private music – Deftones

8:36 PM "Blue Mountains" by 𝐒𝐚𝐦 𝐀𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐧 from 𝐿𝑖𝑙𝑦-𝑂 (Nonesuch) #nowplaying

introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen Nina Simone Elvin Jones De Dannan Sweet Honey In The Rock The Bulgarian State Television Women's Choir

New Yorker year-end honourable mention for Salt River alongside a Moby Dick quote and a bunch of fantastic bands/records including @theweatherstation Humanhood which I played some banjo and fiddle on… I’ll take it!

Excerpt from Patreon monthly livestream workshop

Over at my Patreon we're looking at getting an open tuning guitar sound in standard tuning - come join !

my favourite rock drumming is Dougie Bowne with Chris Whitley in the 90s

MARKING TIME

Love how Nico Muhly and Sam Amidon revisit The Only Tune every couple of years. This one at Sadler's Wells may be my favourite yet. The dancing skeletons and musicians also in skeleton outfits made the dark melody even more sinister and surreal.

BBC Radio 3 In Tune Now Playing Nico Muhly & Sam Amidon The Only Tune: III. The Only Tune

Fantastic article by Nico Muhly in advance of our upcoming performances at Sadlers Wells in London this Thurday-Saturday

BBC Radio 3 20th Century Radicals Now Playing Sam Amidon Friends and Neighbor

Sam Amidon and Thomas Bartlett at Union Chapel and a fantastic London Jazz Festival gig. The collaborations on stage meant this was truly a one-off experience #wearejazz

What are your favourite live albums? mine are Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies, Noel Hill & Tony McMahon I gCnoc na Graí, Camille Thurman Inside The Moment, Billy Bang Commandment, Sabir Mateen and Tom Bruno Getting Away With Murder

Listening to Sam Amidon, after watching #TheHistoryofSound now on Mubi Highly recommend 🎶❤️

Beth Orton & Sam Amidon @ Vicar Street tickets on sale now www.ticketmaster.ie/beth-orton-s...

Update: it is now Thursday at 10 AM

Beth Orton & Sam Amidon @ Vicar Street Dublin December 13th. Tickets on sale general sale Thursdays Oct 30th 10am. Subscriber pre sale starts today. A unique & unmissable concert with full sets and collaborative performances. www.ticketmaster.ie/beth-orton-s... @samamidon.bsky.social

December xmas tour of Ireland with Beth Orton ! ! ! Tickets on sale Thurdsay at 10 AM

The Wagoner's Lad

RIP Bob Franke, who wrote Thanksgiving Eve... performed here by Isaac Guillory:

last night at cafe oto with shahzad

RIP Bob Franke. I always loved Isaac Guillory's cover of Franke's song Thanksgiving Eve, which my dad turned me on to: youtu.be/PagE2v4_XY4?...

Thank you to Kate Molleson for having me on BBC Radio 3 to pick some music I've been listening to lately!

great band used to see them at Tonic back in the day

absolutely incredible MEROPE concert at Cafe Oto last night wowowowowow youtu.be/o7Cc7tzlvhM?...

Too arresting to be ambient, the Lithuanian Belgian experimental folk duo assemble elegant, many-faceted compositions with a precision... Read More: https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/merope-indre-jurgeleviciute-bert-cools-vejula Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/album/2LKw7LkkG093P5AapPKSEj

Popcorn Behavior on NPR's All Things Considered, March 1998- dug up from the archives in advance of Thomas Bartlett / Sam Amidon live at London Union Chapel on November 15

Isaac Guillory - Surrendel youtu.be/34PwYB-FLFI?...

Isaac Guillory - Thanksgiving Eve youtu.be/PagE2v4_XY4?...