SAMANTHA MARTIN & DELTA SUGAR - THE RECKLESS ONE

Cat. no: GSR013CD
Format: CD
Barcode: 823675157127
Release Date: 20th November 2020
Genre: Blue

With the worldwide pandemic wrecking utter havoc upon the careers of many musicians, Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar elected to use their time off the road to record, their latest tour-de-force, the astonishingly powerful, funky and deeply soulful The Reckless One.

This is the follow up record to Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar’s Juno nominated 2018 release Run To Me. Eleven of the album’s twelve songs were either cowritten or solely composed by the multi-faceted artist. The one non-original, a funk infused cover of Bob Dylan’s “Meet Me in the Morning,” fuses Dylan’s lyric in a cataclysmic clash with the sensibilities of the Meters and the hurricane force of Howlin’ Wolf and Tina Turner at their rawest. It simply has to be heard to be believed.

The album’s twelve tracks cover a lot of ground, including 12/8 gospel infused soul ballads such as “I’ve Got a Feeling” and “Better to Have Never,” funk inflected tracks like “Love is All Around,” s stomping four-on-the-floor dance numbers epitomized by “Don’t Have To Be” and the Wall of Sound influenced “Sacrifice.” Over the course of the album the discerning listener will detect a panoply of influences ranging from Mavis Staples, Sharon Jones and Otis Redding to Booker T. and the MG’s, The Rolling Stones and the Memphis Horns. One track, “All That I Am,” is even slightly reminiscent of early 70s Emotions. 

Press:
Blues & Soul Magazine- Feature and 4 star review
Soul Survivor Magazine-Feature and review
Blues Matters Magazine- Feature and review
Blues in Britain Magazine -Feature and review
“Delta Sugar have delivered on all fronts a sassy, well-produced contemporary blues-soul album that doesn’t have a weak track.”

RNR Magazine- Feature and review
Echoes Magazine- Feature and review
“exemplary stuff….. how in the hell is she not bigger over here?”

Soul Survivors feature and review
“Packed with respective reverb, meaningful song writing, vocal clarity and tight musicianship check out this intricate and live blue-eyed soul recording.”

Fireworks- Review to be published in December
IBBA Pick of the Month in November

“Samantha Martin’s name can be talked of in the same sentence as Etta James, Tina Turner, and Aretha Franklin. Its soul for the modern age with a turbocharger.” – Rhythm & Booze

Dedicated advertisements in:
Blues & Soul, Soul Survivors, Blues Matters, Blues in Britain, RNR, Classic Rock

Tracks: Love Is All Around / Don’t Have to Be / Meet Me in the Morning / Loving You Is Easy / One Heartbreak / I’ve Got a Feeling / Sacrifice / So I Always Know / Pass Me By / Better to Have Never / All That I Am / Who Do You

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