Popular music often celebrates the workaday lives of everyday underdogs. But for John K Samson of the pop-punk band The Weakerthans , those strivers form an unusual mix of bottled-up academics, forlorn cat owners and underappreciated quizmasters — folks whose academic pursuits and lively minds don’t take them nearly as far as they might have expected. Samson sings with an agreeable, approachable purr throughout Winter Wheat, which closes with a perfect 97-second tearjerker in “Virtute At Rest.”
The highly anticipated new album by renowned singer-songwriter John K. Samson entitled Winter Wheat has arrived! Inspired by the search for connection and community, and our individual and collective struggles with addictions to drugs, screens, and fossil fuels,Winter Wheat is a sprawling, masterful and timely work by a writer at the peak of his powers. “Singer/songwriter John K. Samson enlists the rhythm section from his renowned band The Weakerthans for much of his second solo album,
“Postdoc Blues” by John K. Samson from the album ‘Winter Wheat,’ available now
The Fat Angel Sings 