WEEKS, ORLANDO

“Music has just been a part of my life since I was very young – it’s been like my football or my soccer”, says Sammy Brue. “I stopped going to school to do it. Because I thought, if I could put seven hours a day into music, imagine where it’s going to take me…”. Imagine, indeed. Since writing his first song at the age of 11, guitarist/singersongwriter Brue has released three homespun ep’s, his New West Records full length debut “I Am Nice” and the 2018-ep “Down With Desperation”. In the process, the Ogden, Utah native has been hailed as an ‘Americana prodigy’ by Rolling Stone, ‘wunderkind’ by American Songwriter and ‘one of the teenagers shaping pop’ by The New Yorker. He already toured with the likes as Lucinda Williams, Lukas Nelson, Hayes Carll, Michael Kiwanuka and Justin Townes Earl. But these myriad accomplishments may have just been the setup for what is arguably his finest work to date, “Crash Test Kid”, which finds Brue truly coming into his own with a collection of songs that are stylistically diverse, musically dynamic and emotionally unguarded. Brue has always been an artist seemingly wise beyond his years, but on “Crash Test Kid” he often gets at the heart of a matter or melody with just a simple but insightful turn of phrase or cleverly-picked guitar, mixing alt folkcountry, indie pop and alternative (punk)rock.