Samantha crain a small death
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How singer Samantha Crain rebuilt her career after a life-changing accident
BBC music reporter
In summer 2017, shortly after releasing her album You Had Me At Goodbye, singer-songwriter Samantha Crain had three car accidents in three months.
The third left her bedridden for a year and a half, and with no feeling in her hands. She doubted she would ever be able to hold a guitar again.
"The loss of my hands left me in a really dark, dark space," says Crain. "I was really depressed and having panic attacks".
She likens the situation to a loss of identity. "Music is the way I deal with the world, the way I process the world, and I felt like everything was being taken away from me.
"I didn't know who I was outside of being a musician, and so there was this time of getting to know myself from scratch again.
"It was kind of like being like a child again."
Before the accidents, Crain was an acclaimed musician, known for her piercing, expressive vocals and profoundly personal
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Samantha Crain
Samantha Crain is a Choctaw singer, songwriter, poet, producer, and musician from Oklahoma. She is a two-time Native American Music Award winner and winner of an Indigenous Music Award. Her genre spanning discography has been critically acclaimed by media outlets such as Rolling Stone, SPIN, Paste, No Depression, NPR, PRI, The Guardian, NME, Uncut, and others. She has toured extensively over the past 11 years nationally and internationally, presenting ambitious orchestrated shows with a band and intimate folk leaning solo performances. She has toured with First Aid Kit, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lucy Rose, The Avett Brothers, The Mountain Goats, Brandi Carlile, Langhorne Slim and many other bands and artists. With a new album due out in Spring of 2020, she continues her tradition of keeping things close to the heart and the ground by leaning into the fulfillment of affinity with an audience and the satisfaction of a song with a memorable melody and an honest story.
Bio Nov 2019
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Samantha Crain is a Choctaw-American songwriter, musician, producer, and singer from Shawnee, Oklahoma, signed with Ramseur Records (USA) and Real Kind Recrords (Worldwide). Crain won 2 NAMMYs (Native American Music Awards) in 2009 for Folk Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year and an Indigenous Music Award in 2019 for Rock Album of the Year. She has had songs featured on 90210, HBO's Hung, and in many independent documentaries and films, including Barking Water and UNRESERVED: The Work of Louie Gong. Her genre spanning discography has been critically acclaimed by media outlets such as Rolling Stone, SPIN, Paste, No Depression, NPR, PRI, The Guardian, NME, Uncut, and others. She has toured extensively over the past 12 years nationally and internationally, presenting ambitious orchestrated shows with a band and intimate folk leaning solo performances. She has toured with First Aid Kit, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lucy Rose, The Avett Brothers, The Mountain Goats, Brandi Carlile, Langhorne Slim and many other bands and artists.
Samantha Crain is a Choctaw-American songwriter,
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