My featured guest for the 9th episode of Spirit and Roots was the brilliant Benjamin Scheuer. Here he is performing the track, ‘I Am Samantha,’ for us live in the studio.
We discussed songwriting influences, inspirations and heard the first snippets from his upcoming album to be released on Atlantic Records.
You can listen to the entire interview and show here:
Episode 9 Playlist
1/ GEOFF MULDAUR – This World Is Not My Home – The Secret Handshake
2/ OSCAR ISAAC and MARCUS MUMFORD – Fare Thee Well (Dink’s Song) – Inside Llewyn Davis: Soundtrack
3/ TOM WAITS – Big Joe and Phantom 309 – Under The Covers: The Songs He Didn’t Write
4/ LORI MCKENNA – Old Men, Young Women – The Bird & the Rifle
5/ ROBERT ELLIS – Fucking Crazy – Texas Piano Man
6/ EELS – Railroad Man – Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
7/ BENJAMIN SCHEUER – I Am Samantha – Unreleased
8/ BENJAMIN SCHEUER – Hibernate With Me – Single
9/ PARIS MONSTER – Grandma – It Once Had Been Kind
10/ JAMES MCMURTRY – You Got To Me – Complicated Game
11/ DAYNA KURTZ – It’s How You Hold Me – Rise and Fall
12/ BENJAMIN SCHEUER – The Tree – Unreleased
13/ RICHIE HAVENS – I Can’t Make It Anymore – Mixed Bag
14/ GREG BROWN – Trump Can’t Have That – Single
15/ STEVE EARLE – The Mountain – The Mountain
16/ GLEN HANSARD – Maybe Not Tonight – Rhythm and Repose
17/ THE PINE VALLEY COSMONAUTS AND CHRIS LIGON – The Great State of Texas – The Executioner’s Last Songs Volume 1
18/ LOS LOBOS – Little Things – The Town and the City
19/ IRMA THOMAS – Blue in the Heart – My Heart’s In Memphis: The Songs Of Dan Penn
20/ THE CORAL – Cobwebs – Roots and Echoes
21/ MARK ERELLI – Night Train – Milltowns
22/ ERIN RAE – Wild Blue Wind – Putting On Airs
23/ PETER WOLF – There’s Still Time – Midnight Souvenirs
24/ CHARLIE ROTH – The Chair – I’m The Smile
25/ WILCO – How To Fight Loneliness – Summerteeth
All artist links can be found in the YouTube and MixCloud footnotes.