Red Sammy

Live footage from the Baltimore Book Festival (Saturday, September 24th, 2011).

Red Sammy to perform at the Baltimore Book Festival 2011! Full rock band lineup including: Cheasapeake John “100 Years of Solitude” Decker, Greg Hemingway Humphries, Tony “Ulysses” Calato, Adam “Chekhov” Trice Hundreds of writers and artists all weekend!

It was a busy summer for us! With the release of our latest album A Cheaper Kind of Love Song we hit the road for a number of shows outside of Charm City (Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Roanoke, NYC, etc) even … Continue reading →

Baltimore Independent Music and Art Festival (BIMAfest 2011): BiMA.fest is a multi-venue festival which happening August 25-27th. 120+ bands at 12 different venues around Baltimore. RED SAMMY performs two sets on Saturday, August 27th as part of the Bosley Record … Continue reading →

We’ll be loading up Baby Blue (our touring van) and hitting the road for a few shows down south in Virginia. Friday, August 12th we arrive at Baine’s Books and Coffee located in the town of Appomattox, VA to perform … Continue reading →

Camped out in a vinyl booth somewhere between alt-country and that moment in the seventies when country crossed over into pop, saving all our quarters for the saddest songs on the diner jukebox. On Friday, August 5th RED SAMMY will … Continue reading →

Friday, July 22nd @ WINDUP SPACE (Baltimore, MD) 9:00 PM Red Sammy w/ Sal Bando (Surf/Punk Rock) and Soon Clyde (Indie Folk/Experimental) Saturday, July 23rd @ ELECTRIC MAID (Takoma Park, MD) Doors: 7:30 PM, Show: 8:00 PM Red Sammy w/ … Continue reading →

Last week, John Decker and I visited with Aaron Henkin (Host of WYPR’s The Signal) to discuss fate, fortune, and Decker’s resonator guitar. Synopsis: Decker once accepted a guitar as payment for some work he did on a house. It … Continue reading →

I met 61 year old, Baltimore-native, John Decker, (his friends refer to him as simply “Decker”) 3 or so years ago through a circle of musicians in Baltimore. His introduction to Red Sammy happened back in late 2009 when he … Continue reading →

THE NEW ALBUM IS NOW AVAILABLE VIA (iTunes, CDBaby, and local Baltimore art boutique…Minás Art Galleryy (Hampden, MD). ALSO PAY WHAT YOU WANT VIA BANDCAMP (FULL ALBUM AVAILABLE…BUT BE FAIR TO US ARTISTS) Reviews and Posts of A Cheaper Kind … Continue reading →