“THE WHOLE POINT IS TO DO SOMETHING UNIQUE, IN THE MOMENT, WITH SOMEBODY ELSE”
SAMANTHA FISH
Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton’s new Death Wish Blues album is a fun-filled alt-blues exploration that has been, as Samantha puts it, “swirling” in the realms of possibility for quite some time. They first met a decade ago, when Samantha was an up and coming blues star in the Kansas City music scene, and Jesse, the Texas-bred outlaw country badass, was headlining shows there. They took note of one another’s skills, but it took years – and a proposition from Samantha – for their creative stars to align as they have now so spectacularly.
As she recalls with a laugh: “I’d been talking to management about a collaborative record that I wanted to do with another artist, but it was like, ‘Who could that be?’” After seeing Jesse perform in New Orleans at the beginning of 2022, she knew he was just the man for the job. “It all just
