1st annual Tulsa Roots Rocks the Green
Samantha Crain

With a blow-your-hair-back vocal presence that occasionally yields to whisper-soft vulnerability, Crain’s folksy arrangements, both gorgeous and eerie, coexist with a knack for narrative storytelling and lyrics that are as likely to detail disaster and despair as they are community and reconciliation. A Choctaw from Oklahoma, Crain’s sound manages to simultaneously evoke the deeply rural and southern, but also the itinerant and urban. Crain’s latest disc, You (Understand), features a heavier emphasis on electric guitars and drums.