A man known for making the old sound new again, Sam Amidon has made a career of taking folk’s vernacular and re-making it to suit his needs. While some artists draw a line between roots and pop, Amidon takes all of it under his banjo’s wing, and communicates a shared heritage common to all these voices. Now he’s been signed to Nonesuch, and his new material showcases classic folk (‘As I Roved Out’), contemporary pop (Mariah Carey’s ‘Shake it Off’) and even a cover of a hymn his parents recorded on harps in 1977, ‘Weeping Mary.’ Always surprising, check out his moving cover of Tim McGraw’s ‘My Old Friend’ below, and the new video for ‘As I Roved Out here.’ – Mike Levine (@Goldnuggets)
