Riverdog Veteran Sam Bailey Shares His New CD at the Oberlin

Sun 11/24 @ 7:30PM

During his time at Oberlin College, where he graduated this past spring, vocalist/guitarist/ songwriter Sam Bailey was always making music. He released a solo record Preacher & Daisy in 2017, which became an indie folk group of the same name. After that he took songs he’d been working on for a project called Three Story Chicken House, and started to record them in his studio back home in central Pennsylvania, where he grew up.

Those songs became Counting Up the Cost, his new album, which he’s coming back to Oberlin this weekend to share at Riverdog Retreat’s Gallery. He’ll be joined by two of the musicians who came out to Pennsylvania to record with him, multi-instrumentalists Riley Calcagno and Emma Rast, who provided banjo, mandolin, fiddle, guitar and additional vocals.(Charlie Muench also recorded with them).

“Counting up the Cost draws from country and old-time roots,” he says. “At its heart, the album is about growing up country. That is, with the land, with the radio, with the importance of Friday nights, with the recognition that the world I came from shaped me in a way that was particular. You might say that Oberlin’s New Yorkers inspired the songs and the sound. Their presence pushed me to name what I wasn’t and what I was. Counting up the Cost represents what I was; what I’ll always be.”

 Admission is $15. Lorenzo’s pizza will be onsite with $9 pies, and there will be free snacks, but you’re also welcome to bring your own food and drink.

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