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<h1>Joe Sampson</h1>
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Joe Sampson is the champion of the musical understatement, each song exuding a gently mesmerising beauty. His music evokes the comfortably sad acoustic tones of Nick Drake or Leonard Cohen, ornamented with often darkly humorous lyrics, intoned in a soft yet road-worn baritone. Sampson’s intimate, emotive songs draw you in, gradually weaving their subtle magic.<a title="Twitter" href="https://twitter.com/usetonaut" target="_blank">
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<h3>Discography</h3>
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<h4>Chansons de Parade</h4>
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December 2016

The follow-up to his acclaimed EP Songs of Delay released earlier this year, Chansons de Parade is another exquisitely crafted collection of songs from Joe Sampson, with an uncanny ability to quietly get under your skin. While drawing from the musical spirit of Simon &amp; Garfunkel, Iron &amp; Wine, and Low, the songs on Chansons de Parade sound familial rather than familiar. Combining haunting yet playful lyrical narratives, a mesmerising road-worn baritone vocal, and a delicious melodic sensibility, these nine songs feel like long-term friends from the first listen. The music’s intimacy, gently lilting country slant and spacious, restrained instrumentation add depth and resonance to Sampson’s rustic folk influences.

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<h4>Songs of Delay</h4>
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September 2016

<em>Songs of Delay</em> is a sublime five-track EP of consummate songcraft. Across its 13-minute run-time, Joe Sampson patiently unfurls a perfectly formed suite of acoustic vignettes, each song exuding a gently mesmerising beauty. Stripped back in both instrumentation and execution, with additional vocals by Nathaniel Rateliff on 'Songbird', the EP leaves its raw, emotional core exposed, evoking the comfortably sad acoustic tones of Nick Drake or Leonard Cohen. Ornamented with often darkly humorous lyrics, intoned in a soft yet road-worn baritone, Sampson's intimate, emotive songs draw you in, gradually weaving their subtle magic.

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<h3>Biography</h3>
Since his childhood days singing in his family’s barbershop quartet, up through his years collaborating with celebrated musicians like Nathaniel Rateliff and Esme Patterson, Joe Sampson has steadily sharpened his sound and style, becoming one of Denver’s most celebrated songwriters. <span class="_5yl5">Westword named him Songwriter of the Year in 2008, describing his work as “combining the emotional weight of acoustic breakup albums like Beck’s Sea Change or Ryan Adams’ Heartbreaker with an aw-fuck-it humour.”</span>

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<h3>News</h3>
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<h4>Songs of Delay</h4>
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<h5><strong>Songbird</strong></h5>
I am a songbird too
Long before I met you
So come let me sing you a song
It won't do no harm

I am a long boy blue
Long before I had you
So come let me sing you a song
It won't do no harm
Friends at bay
Friends no more
you passed your day
as a friendly sort
What could you prove
What did you move
When you said
Ahh…is that what you do?

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<h5><strong>Moon on the Rise</strong></h5>
There's a moon on the Rise
Reflecting off the tide
Then, reflecting off those tired eyes
There's no boating home
All I want to do is spend my days on glue
And drink for a while until I smile

All I want to do is spend my days on glue
And drink for a while until I smile
What I wish to lose is those days with the fucking blues
sing for a while
Until we smile

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<h5><strong>Dream on Demon</strong></h5>
Two other sons
And there was nothing
Dream on Demon
Stick around
Because we're used to hand me downs

And it’s a cold walk
To get into your town

Belong to us
Hang around
To abuse the common ground

And it’s a cold walk
To get into your town
For a cold one
That I’d rather watch drown

there is no one at all
Am I supposed to crawl
There is no at all
For my bones to call

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<h5><strong>My Love</strong></h5>
On my best
My love
Something that we should know
It’s my part
As your guest
Guessing there's nothing above
At my stay at be honest
Can't find nothing but trouble
On my best
My love
Words we’ll come to loathe

Go retire down the road
What the fuck should you know

On My best
My love
Something that we should show

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<h5><strong>Paper Dolls</strong></h5>
I'm off to bed
tired and unwed
To leave you all
To when the bleachers were warm
And oh, in her eyes
Was a cold, cold surprise
A blameless call
Up to the war
And if you're going leave
Take the dawn
And if you're going to bleed
Don’t take too long

The song filled the room
With platitude perfume
An ageless waltz
Built for the mall
Was it really just me
Dancing down the street
in the arms of paper dolls
In a step called jealousy

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<h3>Licensing</h3>
Joe Sampson's music is  available for licensing (master &amp; sync cleared) through Hidden Shoal. Please <a title="Contact Us" href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/contact-us/">contact us</a> with some basic details about your project and the track(s) you wish to use and we’ll be sure to get back to you straight away.

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