Sam Amidon
Salt River
Release Date: Jan 24, 2025
Genre(s): Folk
Record label: River Lea
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Album Review: Salt River by Sam Amidon
Great, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 4/5
Traditional folk songs are often regarded as artefacts that allow us to peer into the past. However, there's an argument to be made that attempts to preserve these songs in their original form are destroying the oral tradition that gave them life. Thankfully, Sam Amidon understands that nothing about culture is static. Created with saxophonist and producer Sam Gendel, Salt River blurs the boundary between tradition and modernity.
Based on rating 3.5
An intoxicating mix of folk and free jazz on the Vermont native’s 10th album finds him creating something very much on his own terms It’s fair to say that folk music is steeped in Sam Amidon‘s blood. Born and raised in Vermont to professional folk musician parents, he was in his first band by the age of 13, and is now married to Norfolk’s very own folk-pop musician Beth Orton. Salt River, Amidon’s 10th album, not only draws on folk for its inspiration though.
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