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.