John K. Samson Going For Adds – 1/16 & 1/17

Provincial, John K. Samson’s first solo release began with a simple idea: to explore four different roads in Manitoba, the Canadian province where Samsonlives. “They’re the places I kept going back to.” Samson talked to relatives, friends and strangers; he visited archives, a tuberculosis sanatorium-turned-RV park, a forgotten cemetery. For a video glimpse of Provincial’s prairie roadmap,click here. Brooklyn Vegan premiered the lead single off the album, “When I Write My Master’s Thesis,” earlier this month & NPR chose it for their Song Of The Day on Friday. The album sits where Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, Sun Kil Moon’s Ghosts Of The Great Highway, & Mountain Goats’ Tallahassee all intersect. Check the record out and listen for yourself.

RIYL: Weakerthans, Wilco, Bright Eyes, Death Cab for Cutie, Elliott Smith, Built to Spill

TRY: #7, 3, 5, 8, 10

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