Name: Popular Mechanics
Brand: Sam Outlaw

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ROOTSY202

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-09-30

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7350050362027

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ROOTSYLP202

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Artist

Sam Outlaw

Genre GB

Country / Americana

Label GB

Rootsy

Sam Outlaw is a singer-songwriter based in Nashville, TN. Originally from South Dakota, he adopted his stage name as a tribute to his late mother. After working in advertising for many years, Sam made the bold decision to pursue music full-time in 2015. His debut album "Angeleno," produced by Ry Cooder and Joachim Cooder, received widespread acclaim and established him as a prominent voice in Country and Americana music. With his follow-up album "Tenderheart," Sam took on the role of self-producer and further expanded his unique blend of SoCal Country with elements of Pop and Rock.
"Angeleno" earned Sam numerous awards and accolades from esteemed publications such as Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, NPR, and more. The success of the album led to an extensive tour across North America and Europe.
With each release, Sam Outlaw continues to captivate audiences with his heartfelt lyrics, soulful vocals, and distinctive sound that seamlessly blends traditional country with modern influences. His passion for storytelling shines through in every song he creates.

Los Angeles-bred "SoCal Country" singer Sam Outlaw will release a pedal steel-stamped, new wave-inspired record titled Popular Mechanics. Solely writing seven of the album's 11 tracks, Outlaw fuses the sounds of his favourite artists of the '80s - Kenny Loggins, Cyndi Lauper, Tom Petty - with stories influenced by the great innovators of the 20th century and the engineers that make up his own family tree.

The ambitious direction of Popular Mechanics may seem like a sudden shift from Outlaw's country-leaning albums, Angeleno (2015) and Tenderheart (2017), which garnered appearances on CBS Saturday Morning's Anthony Mason, NPR, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal and more, but the gears actually started turning in early 2018 after Outlaw shelved some new material he recorded in Southern California. Following his cross-country move to Music City that same year, Outlaw found unexpected inspiration during a visit from his father, a mechanical engineer, and it prompted him to shift his focus to the technological side of music creation.

The epiphany came when he connected industrial machines with the role technology plays in recorded music. Growing up on the hits of the '80s, an incredible time of transformation in music history, he remembers everything came into focus for the album once he envisioned the title, Popular Mechanics.

Popular Mechanics

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