March 18, 2016 – Marion,
Iowa
By Phillip Smith; Mar 20, 2016
Friday, March 18, Samantha Fish blessed the audience at Campbell Steele Gallery in Marion, Iowa
with a captivating show featuring two terrific sets of music. One couldn’t ask
for a better rhythm section to back her as bassist Chris Alexander and drummer Go-go
Ray. These musicians sound extraordinary
together. Fish
quickly grabbed everyone’s attention with a rousing execution of “Wild Heart”, which
was followed up by the killer song “Show Me”.
Highlighted by a stellar performance from Go-Go Ray, this one brought everyone to their feet.
Fish effortlessly commanded
the stage as she ripped through “Blame it on the Moon and crowd-favorite “Runaway”
on oil-can guitar and slide. Her gorgeous
acoustic rendition of Charlie Patton’s
blues classic “Jim Lee Blues” was outstanding and fresh. Fish
also broke out a sweet cover of Junior
Kimbrough’s “I’m in Love With You”.
This one appears on her new album, Wild
Heart.
Fish returned alone to
deliver the first two songs of the second set acoustically. She played her most streamed song, “Let’s Have
Some Fun”, along with a favorite of her father, Tom T. Hall’s “That’s How I Got
to Memphis”. Afterward, the band
proceeded to tear through a smashing “Go to Hell”, a mesmerizing “I Put a Spell
on You”, and a phenomenally ripping “Bitch on the Run”. Before all was done, the band took the stage for
an encore to end the evening with a fearless electric cover of Black Sabbath’s “War
Pigs”, and it was great. For this, I say
“Bravo!”.
All photos by Phillip Smith
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