All Is Well

Samamidon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 5, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bedroom Community
• ASIN: B000VT2TYA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #144,459 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sugar Baby

2. Little Johnny Brown

3. Saro

4. Wild Bill Jones

5. Wedding Dress

6. Fall on My Knees

7. Little Satchel

8. O Death

9. Prodigal Son

10. All Is Well

Editorial Reviews

All Is Well by Sam Amidon

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sublime blend, August 9, 2008

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Noel A. Hodda (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Is Well (Audio CD)

I heard 'Little Satchel' from this album on the radio and had to track the cd down and it was worth it. The plaintive singing of these old songs accompanied by the restrained playing overlaid with Nico Muhly's absolutely contemporary orchestrations makes for a sublime experience: at times restful and at other times unsettling yet always beautiful. Highly recommended.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect mix, February 21, 2008

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Brady Earnhart (Fredericksburg, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All Is Well (Audio CD)

One reaches to think of how to describe the complement of raw and sophisticated music brought together on this album. Sam Amidon's voice & folk repertoire feel like a rough-hewn cherry wood centerpiece on a table of sterling settings. Like Frodo against a New Zealand backdrop. I have to echo reviews that call All Is Well "headphone music" (yes! in the tradition of, say, Nick Drake, early John Martyn, Iron and Wine) & that say it makes the public domain private again. But the production and Nico Muhly's arrangements also deserve the attention of fans of Steve Reich, or Bjork. You know how Bill Frisell has been taking old time music seriously into a jazz idiom? Amidon & his buddies do an even more ground-breaking thing with avant-garde orchestral music. Check it out.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the man is the real thing, March 30, 2009

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This review is from: All Is Well (Audio CD)

Amidon has something that sinks deeper for me than many performers -- a connection not necessarily to the lyrics and narratives themselves, but to the act of singing that pulls me in -- entirely. He's an artist, and this CD is a work, that I'm eager to have people to discover and experience.