Les Sampou
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Les Sampou (born November 4, 1961 in Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American folk singer/songwriter. She got her start singing in Boston's Haymarket subway stop in 1985. She performed in several duos and trios, including "Double Edge" with Ellie Mae Higgins, but settled into a solo career after a few years.
In 2005 Les created a band, The Tin Angels, with musicians from her home state of Massachusetts. The Tin Angels plays her repertoire and expands her stylistic range, at the same time keeping a link to her themes and focus on her lyrics.
In early 2010 Les released a themed CD of recent tunes, called Lonesomeville, accompanied by a series of concert shows in traditional folk venues, such as Passim, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and additional Boston area venues in cooperation with well-known musicians, Taylor Amerding, Mark Cunningham, David Ogden, Andy Plaisted, Kevin Barry, Mike Dinallo and Jimmy Ryan. She is a prolific songwriter with more songs available for performance than she can play in four sets. Her repertoire is very large with many still unrecorded tunes reserved for live performance, stylistically covering roots rook, blues, folk and road trip songs like "Motorcycle Mama".
Discography
- Sweet Perfume (1993)
- Fall From Grace (1996)
- Les Sampou (1999)
- Borrowed & Blue (2001)
- Lonesomeville (2010)
External links
Current home page of Les Sampou
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