SAMMY BRUE SHARES "MEGAWATT"

Sammy Brue Shares “Megawatt”; New Album Crash Test Kid  Out June 12 on New West Records

(photo credit: Pamela Littky) The impossibly talented 19-year old Utah musician Sammy Brue has just shared the latest song from his forthcoming album, Crash Test Kid.  Listen to “Megawatt” HERE  Read Sammy’s feature with American Songwriter HERE. “[“Megawatt”] is an excellent encapsulation of Brue’s style and artistry… Painting vivid lyrical images — like setting the scene at a ‘Pink Floyd laser show” and describing love on Earth as being “lost in space, me and you/ on a giant green and blue bubble” — Brue effortlessly blurs the line between lighthearted fun and striking observation.” - American Songwriter Watch the video for the album’s title track HERE.

Plus first single, “Teenage Mayhem” HERE.

“Megawatt” is the fourth track to be released from the already critically lauded young artist’s sophomore album, Crash Test Kid. (June 12 via New West Records) . Having just completed  tours opening for Michael Kiwanuka and Marcus King before the Covid-19 crisis, Sammy was forced to cancel his trip to SXSW,  and has spent the past several weeks at home in Utah, where he’s been performing live on his Instagram Stories and recently took part in Consequence Of Sound’s livestream tribute to one of his musical heroes, John Prine.  Since writing his first song (a fingerpicked, autobiographical tune titled “The Woody Guthrie Song”) at the age of 11, Brue has released three homespun EPs, his New West full-length debut, I Am Nice and a 2018 EP, Down with Desperation . In the process, the Ogden, Utah native has been hailed as an “Americana prodigy” by Rolling Stone , a “wunderkind” by American Songwriter and one of the “teenagers shaping pop” by The New Yorker . Alongside this, Brue has performed at the Newport Folk Festival and played shows with the likes of Lucinda Williams, Lukas Nelson and Hayes Carll; and toured alongside Justin Townes Earle, who has become a mentor of sorts. Brue recorded his debut full-length, I Am Nice , in Muscle Shoals with Ben Tanner of Alabama Shakes and John Paul White of The Civil Wars producing. But for his new album he took a different approach, collaborating with Irish producer, singer-songwriter Iain Archer , who has worked with the likes of Jake Bugg and Snow Patrol.

Crash Test Kid Cover  Pre-order album HERE Tracklist 1. Gravity 2. Die Before You Live 3. Teenage Mayhem 4. True Believer 5. Pendulum Thieves 6. Crash Test Kid 7. Megawatt 8. Fishfoot 9. Skatepark 10. Doomsday Blues 11. What You Give 12. Paint It Blue

(Sammy Brue comic bio by JAKE GIDDENS)

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