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<h1>Joe Sampson</h1>
<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Joe_Sampson_Porch_Glenn_Ross.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-14378" src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Joe_Sampson_Porch_Glenn_Ross-300x200.jpg" alt="Joe Sampson | Photo by Glenn Ross" width="300" height="200" /></a><em>“The quiet beauty of Joe Sampson’s music comes from its stark simplicity, haunting textures and dark mystery”</em> – <strong>The Denver Post</strong>

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.
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<h4>'My Love'</h4>
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The first single taken from the forthcoming EP <em>Songs of Delay</em>, out 12th of 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>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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