Sam King – Anxious Actors

Sam King
Anxious Actors

A couple of very nice tunes came to us the other day from Sam King from Northwest Arkansas. The songs are off his CD The Baby & The Bathwater that he released in Spring 2005 on Painting Is A Dinosaur, a sort of music and art site collaboration vehicle of sorts with several other people.

The two songs I heard are on the quiet and folky side, with just King’s voice and an acoustic guitar. His vocals on “Anxious Actors” are less hushed than Sam Beam’s (Iron and Wine) but it feels like he is drawing his inspiration from similar place. The “new” Appalachian folk rennaisance is certainly a force to be reckoned with, or at least I think it is becoming more palatable to the average indie listener. The waltz chord progression of this song reminded me a bit of E. Smith’s Waltz No.2 .

“Violent Year” is the other track available and it feels even more beautifully pastoral than Anxious Actors, if that’s possible. It’s like someone brought The Kings of Convenience over from Norway and installed them on a porch in Arkansas. This stuff was right up my alley, all the pauses, the slow folk guitar plunking and Sam’s voice striding through it pretty confidently. Give it a listen…

Sample tracks from Sam King
Anxious Actors – Baby & The Bathwater
Violent Year – Baby & The Bathwater

by Palebear