Sam Carlson

Sam Carlson is a troubadour that found a homebase in Key West, Florida on St. Paddie’s Day Weekend in 2017. Within a week he joined the six-piece rockabilly-surf band Billy the Squid. That band played an after-party for the first Mile 0 Festival where the headliner (Cody Jinks) made a guest appearance. It was here that Sam began a relationship with a management team affiliated with Jinks at True Grit Management out of Austin, TX. In November of 2019, Sam was flown to the Sonic Ranch to record what was going to be his debut album, a multi-grammy winning residential recording studio outside of El Paso, TX.

The album was completed, and plans were made to release the album in April of 2020. The management decided to hold off on the release because of the global pandemic. The pandemic changed everything, and the record release went on hold. By the end of 2022, Sam and his wife had been convinced to move to Hill Country, Texas to get the record out, but time and money started to run out. It was then that they decided to move back to Key West and work independently in January of 2023.

Sam’s debut EP was released in June on Bandcamp.com, however the album that was recorded at the Sonic Ranch is caught up in legal limbo. Sam is a prolific songwriter and deals with themes of love, loss, life, and the beauty of the natural world.