"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 9/23/24)
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Real Live Certified
Artists are Real Live Certified if their live shows have broad critical acclaim
Critic Consensus
Sam Amidon is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 20 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Sam Amidon is rated as a superb live performer, with remarkable shows that are worth watching. Sam Amidon concert reviews describe live shows and performances as mesmerising.
ON TOUR
Servants Jazz Quarters, London, United Kingdom (October 15); つま恋リゾート 彩の郷, 静岡, Japan (November 2)
Sam Amidon (born Samuel Tear Amidon on 3 June 1981 in Brattleboro, Vermont) is an American folk artist. His parents are Peter Amidon and Mary Alice Amidon, both well-established folk musicians.
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Critic Concert Reviews
Berkeley B-Side (USA)
October 25, 2014
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Sam Amidon tells jokes, warms audience at the Great American
He ambled on a tousle-haired figure in a blue T-shirt clutching a guitar as if he was going to turn St Luke's into a large folk club with exquisite acoustics.
Yet for all the frippery and showmanship, Amidon's surest skills and sensibilities are musical, and when he prefaces his plaintive take on a wonderfully naive R. Kelly song, "Relief," by noting that "Even the parts that aren't true, sometimes it's good to sing them," you think: Here is a man who understands p
An unfairly maligned source of music in recent times (due mainly to the invasive success of a few bland apples) tonight hosted three very different examples of young talents doing it their own way.