Samantha McKaige is a guitar playing, Americana singing, folk loving songwriter from Seattle. She takes inspiration from the woods and peaks of the Pacific Northwest, the beaches of Northern California, and the rivers of the Rockies.
Samantha is pursuing songwriting at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she has released her debut Album, Bury Me Please in the Puget Sound, a collection of songs written from the grass and the sand of Washington’s San Juan Islands. She also recently released a three part alt-folk EP called “After You Left Me”, and a heartbreaking single called “The Love That I Give”.
Samantha’s journeys and heartaches have inspired her lyrics, and her eclectic sound reflects her musical influences.
Samantha has opened for artists such as Ezra Bell, The Brazen Youth, Lucy Wainwright Roche and Suzzy Roche, Ethan Tasch, and Copilot, at historic and esteemed venues such as Brighton Music Hall in Boston, The Sunset Tavern in Seattle, and Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles. She performs solo or with a full band of talented musicians, rounding out her sound with electric and steel guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, trumpet, keyboard, backing vocals, and drums. Paired with her originals, Samantha also performs uniquely arranged covers of her favorite musicians, such as Caamp, Noah Kahan, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Brandi Carlile, Gregory Alan Isakov, Gillian Welch and The Highwomen.
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‘Bury Me Please In The Puget Sound’ is a folk album written in the rocks, salt, sea, and sand of Washington’s Puget Sound. The imagery this album encapsulates ranges from a railroad track deep in the North Cascades, to the pristine backroads of the middle of nowhere, to the breaking point, to the islands, to someone new, and to the bottom of the ocean.
‘After You Left Me’ is a folk/rock EP I released in October 2022. The three-song project tells the story of a relationship broken by distance. The first song, ‘Halfway To Colorado’, is from the perspective of the man who gets his heartbroken when his partner leaves him for bigger things in Colorado. The second song, ‘Smoke & Whiskey’, is from the woman’s perspective, and gives a deeper explanation of why she had to get away from that relationship. The third song, ‘Trying To get Home (when you’re under the influence)’, is a culmination of the heartache that both people experienced. It talks about how you can know that something is horrible and dangerous, but you can still love a person regardless of their negative actions.
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