Legend Of The Starboyz

Last track on Side A of Craig's Hideaway.  Get the whole album at http://head2wallrecords.bandcamp.com/album/craigs-hideaway.

Best Boys

From The Tuesday Night Music club, out May 19th on Head2Wall Records.  Preorder now at http://head2wallrecords.bigcartel.com/.

The Tuesday Night Music Club

Regality

Indian Restaurant

Produced by David Welsh. Written for inclusion in a musical I am currently co-writing with Hello Emerson about (terrible) men. Inspired by A Chorus Line, #metoo, a city hoping to become the new Amazon headquarters, and Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons. Was thinking back to my high school experience in the late ‘90s, specifically a time I got blackout drunk and snapped back into reality with someone throwing me up against a brick wall yelling “What did you say to Tammy?!”

Kevin's World

Produced by David Welsh. Written on the other side of the country while in San Francisco for work, waiting to find out if/when my dog Charlie was going to die back in Columbus. Trying to dull the pain with fast food, alcohol, and working out too much in the hotel gym; choking back tears at mile 4 on the treadmill, watching Will Smith’s command performance in Independence Day. Charlie made it through the trip, but passed away while we were recording the record. R.I.P. our sweet boy.

SF Blues

In his review of Craighead’s 2017 album The Tuesday Night Music Club, Stereogum’s Chris Deville wrote, “Craighead has developed a musical language all his own, both in terms of his rich chamber-pop arrangements and a sardonic wit communicated so gently that it sometimes takes a while to realize he’s clowning you.” 

Sam's songs cover autobiographical glimpses and musings on life and masculinity in late capitalist America--the requisite singer-songwriter navel gazing intersecting with stories of hopeful Beanie Baby collectors, eating and dying in fast food restaurants, and the enduring power of '90s popular music. This cheeky obscurity over a soft alt-rock soundtrack has drawn listeners to his work both as a solo artist, and earlier as the primary songwriter of Heavy Mole and Feature Films.

He's refined his balance between satire and sincerity on Self-Portrait w/Fries, a  five track EP produced by David Welsh from The Fray, coming out March 22, 2019. He’s still clowning you, just more empathetically. And he's crying and snacking the whole time.

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