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Formats

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  NW6357CD  £10.00Expected 16th June 2017

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  NW5186Long Player  £16.00Expected 16th June 2017

Label

New West

Sammy Brue

I Am Nice

Teenage songwriter's full-length album I Am Nice, produced by John Paul White and Ben Tanner via New West. Brue balances a mature, brooding sense of folk with wistful, youthful lyricism. The Ogden, Utah-based Brue started writing music at ten years old, and was snatched by Justin Townes Earle for the cover of his 2014 album, Single Mothers, for his uncanny resemblance to the singer songwriter. His similarities to Earle weren’t just in the physical – he, too, plays his guitar with a heavy thumb that tends to conjure up a bygone era, with lyrics firmly footed in the present. By fourteen, Brue had already released two EPs under the tutelage of musicians like Earle, Joe Fletcher and Joshua Black Wilkins, who saw more than just the novelty of a young kid at the mic: they saw an artist. Young or not, Brue's songs were emotionally stirring and stark, garnering him spots opening for Hayes Carll, Lydia Loveless, John Moreland, Lukas Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Asleep at the Wheel and Earle, and a deal with New West records.

Tracklist

• 1. I Know
  2. Was I The Only One
  3. I'm Not Your Man
  4. I Never Said
  5. Jealous
  6. Covered In Blood
  7. I Don't Want You To Leave
  8. I See, I Hear
  9. Lay Me Down
  10. Control Freak
  11. Once A Lover
  12. Salty Times