Lyrics: This is tug of war between two shores. I hold your left hand and picture a wedding band. Pacific tides pull me from my Virginia honey. You’re oh so sweet, but true love calls me. The pastures of your green eyes reflect the sunrise, but the oceans of mine blue California waves are crashing through. Pacific tides pull me from my Virginia honey. You’re oh so sweet but true love calls me.

Virginia Honey

Make a wish. It is your birthday. Before you blow. It is your birthday. I think I know. 

Don't leave one candle lit.
Cause the phone is hard on days like this. 

If Virginia's for lovers then why are you covered in California sun.
Seventeen candles I watch from the mantle. Today distance won.

Here's Happy Birthday from miles away. 
Can't kiss you now but on Christmas day. 
Here's Happy Birthday from miles away. 
I'll wait for you 'til I see your freckled face.

Virginia's for Lovers

In my church clothes; favorite shirt
I've been playing in the dirt
In the porcelain I try to clean
Six foot two, all of me
Then I walk to the Hoover Dam
Ask Colorado to wash this man
I look up and see the gray
The color in the rivers way

I ask these concrete walls if gently they would wall

Hoover Dam break free
Hoover Dam wash me
I wanna wear the water

I lay down sticks of red
On this dry river bed
The river waits, waits with me
For the time we'll both be free
Me, from all my filth
The river of this dam i build
Five, four, three, then the two
Right before I hear the boom

I ask these concrete walls if gently they would wall

Hoover Dam break free
Hoover Dam wash me
I wanna wear the water


Hoover Dam

I was fortunate enough to perform on the Kansas City (90.1 KKFI) airwaves with Cindy Terwilliger's radio show, Voodoo Kittens. We had a blast talking about song meanings, dreams, and rum cake. Thanks again, Cindy!

90.1 KKFI Radio Interview w/ Cindy Terwilliger

I put God in a box. Return to sender. Taped Him up tight saying, "No, I won't surrender." I pay for first class; never look back. 

Haha, funny. Why do You want me? *whistle* The doorbell.

On the doorstop, the welcome mat, the brown box comes back.

I put God in a box. Return to sender. Taped Him up tight saying, "No, I won't surrender." I pay for first class; never look back. 

Haha, funny. Why do You want me? *whistle* The doorbell.

On the doorstop, the welcome mat, the brown box comes back.

Why'd You come back? Why'd You come back? Oh, please don't come back. Please don't come back. Why'd You come back? Why'd You come back?

On the doorstop, the welcome mat, the brown box comes back.

Haha, funny. Why do You want me? *whistle* The doorbell.

God In A Box

In the barley fields my steps are slow
Could you teach me to not step on your toe
In the barley fields I can't hit that note
Could you teach me to not sing so low

Teach me how to dance
Right, left
If you teach me how to sing
Deep breath
Crop circles in the night
Orion's burning bright
All we need is time
A little more's fine
Crop Circles in the night


Crop Circles

Like a tangerine tree I should give it all
But it hurts so good as the fruit falls
Watch the orange fade away
Watch the green then turn to gray
Was it all for not? No
Look at what the branches brought

This is love
This is love
Woah
This is love
Why's the example not me?
If this is love and all you need is love
I'll give until there's nothing left

Like a tangerine tree I should give it all
But it hurts so good as the fruit falls
Kids are climbing in the shade
Smiling as the branches break
Was it all for not? No
Look at what the branches brought

This is love
This is love
Woah
This is love
Why's the example not me?
If this is love and all you need is love
I'll give until there's nothing left

When you grow up whatcha wanna be?
I wanna be a tangerine tree
La da da da blowing in the breeze
I wanna be a tangerine tree

Tangerine Tree (Pre-Release Album Preview)

I Am Samson -
Noun [ahy am sam-suhn]
I Am Samson is the brother/sister duo of Josh and Anna Tigges. Home is outside Washington DC in the dancing woodlands of northern Virginia. Josh's gift in songwriting and guitar is contrasted by Anna's expertise in singing and piano performance.

Josh studied songwriting at James Madison University and has toured his music as a solo artist from the Atlantic to Pacific coast. His use of truth, concrete imagery, and melody in his writing make you feel like a part of the story he is telling.

Anna tells a story when she sings and plays piano. Her musical resume is better told the human ear. You'll be refreshed on a hot summer day when the cool waterfall of Anna's voice cools your face.

Josh and Anna both believe music is part of who God made them. Josh was working software sales in Seattle and Anna was a manager at a coffee shop in Virginia. After playing many concerts together, late night jam sessions, conversations over coffee, and prayer, they had a peace about quitting their jobs and pursuing music full time.

Samson is a Hebrew name that means "bright sun." The man Samson in the Bible was a broken human that God still found worthy to do His work. I Am Samson is two people, two siblings, that assembled their unique gifts together and are bringing some truth and light to the world.
After working a soul draining social media marketing job with FOX Broadcasting in Los Angeles, CA, Josh humbly moved home for a year to pay off his student loans working at his families bed and breakfast, Zion Springs. Near the end of his time at Zion Springs, Josh planned, recorded, and released his second EP, Patience Plea on October 19, 2014.

Josh’s music is Josh. He believes that everyone else has been done before, and why try to be like them and rob his fans of his own creative writing skill, vocal tone, and his personality that make his music identifiably different. With folk undertones of Mumford and Sons, vocal energy of punk rock, and catchy melodies that will get stuck in your head for days; Josh calls his music, “power indie.”

There are no masks when Josh performs. Josh is himself and opens the diary of his heart for the public to read. This allows everyone to take their masks off as well and feel at home in a strange club that now feels a lot like Josh’s living room. 

I Am Samson

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