Samantha Crain returned with the new single “Ridin’ Out The Storm” and a sprawling solo headline tour. The latest offering from the acclaimed Oklahoma-based singer-songwriter continues a comeback initiated by “Dragonfly” in September, marking the first string of new studio cuts from the artist since her 2021 EP “I Guess We Live Here Now”. Crain will celebrate the occasion come 2025 with a massive 42-date headline tour and a seven-stop Europe sprint.
“Ridin’ Out The Storm” has a charm only Crain can conjure, balancing grit and wit in an ode to endurance. Her verses are hard-packed earth, built from dense imagery and strewn with life’s rocky trials that never break her stride. Her rambling, matter-of-fact delivery fits her prose perfectly, and she lets her vocal talents fly on the chorus. She sings, “No reason, no rhyme/ Your guess is as good as mine/ Wipe it off and go inside/ Batten down the hatches.”
“I was watching this TV show called The Great one night and this one line caught me,” Crain offers on the origins of the song. “I’m sure it is based on some older, canonical text but, basically, it was this: ‘Let it go. It is a storm. They will never stop coming, but pass through and away. They always will.’ To me, that seemed like the best way I could sum up the gist of living and I wanted to write an expansive song about how that has played out in my life.”
Crain’s latest track follows the propulsive “Dragonfly,” for which she steered further into indie rock territory and earned a shoutout from Iggy Pop on his BBC6 Radio program. These twin entries arrive as the Choctaw artist’s first offerings since her 2023 cover of “Time After Time” for a pivotal moment in Reservation Dogs, and her first original recordings since 2021’s “Pick Apart.”
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