Les Sampou

The young, up-and-coming Les Sampou could be a member of family newcomer towards the international folk/blues festival circuit, but she writes songs like she’s been with us forever. Her record offer came about fairly easily set alongside the way a whole lot of blues and folk performers struggle in obscurity for a long time before being found out. The Boston-based Sampou released an recording herself, Nice Perfume (1994), before becoming signed to Soaring Fish/Rounder Information in 1995. Although by that time she’d already produced the rounds of coffeehouses and folk celebrations round the Northeast, it wasn’t until following the launch of her debut, Fall from Elegance, that she started to undertake a nationwide and worldwide profile. Although you can contact her a modern blues vocalist, and she will play blues exceedingly well, there are a vocalist/songwriter part of her that comes from her debut recording in tunes like “THE ITEMS I Should’ve Stated” and “House Again.” Additional songs, like “Weather Vane” and “Fall from Elegance,” display her bluesier part. Sampou didn’t obtain the music insect until she is at her early twenties, after viewing Ellen McIlwaine at a coffeehouse in Cambridge, MA. Soon after that revelatory knowledge, Sampou began acquiring lessons, learning acoustic blues from Boston-based acoustic blues get better at Paul Rishell. After she started getting steady function in coffeehouses across the ultra-competitive Boston picture in the past due ’80s and early ’90s, she produced the break and give up her day work being a part-time editor to go after her musical dreams. The original result was an excellent album, Nice Perfume, her self-released 1994 debut. The follow-up, Fall from Elegance (1996), is better still, and demonstrates Sampou is similarly in the home playing traditional blues, self-penned blues, or self-penned ballads. Harmonica participant Jerry Portnoy, an excellent songwriter himself, could be heard aswell. A self-titled LP adopted in 1999.