Debut Solo Release From One Half of Critically Acclaimed Duo Sam & Ruby
Sam Brooker, a performer and songwriter who rose to critical success as one half of the celebrated duo Sam & Ruby, alters course with premiere solo release Stay from the forthcoming self-titled EP. This tune, penned by Sam and Brent Anderson, springboards Sam from the duo and music business community back into the role of a solo performer with a production merging the lanes of country and hot adult contemporary.
“I had some big shoes to fill after my project with Ruby was named Associated Press’ ‘Album of the Year’, but I didn’t retire from the creative community by any means,” says Sam. “Since the duo, I’ve started a publishing company that had its first cut become Billboard’s ‘Top Selling Country Song of All Time’, Cruise recorded by Florida Georgia Line. I also co-founded a music technology company that automates the licensing of samples for producers and remixers adding a brand new income stream to the entire music ecosystem. Among those endeavors, I still had these songs that I wanted to bring to life. That’s how we got to Stay and the new EP.”
In a genre where one finds such variety as the EDM country of Keith Urban’s latest tune to the rap stylings of Sam Hunt and the traditional flavored tunes of Brandy Clark and Kacey Musgraves, Sam Brooker’s debut single wedges a home on the pop, easy listening swing of the pendulum. On Stay, Sam’s warm vocal sparks embers of Vince Gill juxtaposed with 90s alternative and pop acts like Savage Garden and Vertical Horizon. The lamenting lyrics that this Green Bay native emotes culminates into a chorus with the lines: “I know you’re breaking my heart, but I don’t want to lose you yet. It’s gonna kill me either way. So why don’t you stay.”
Fan can purchase the single online now by clicking here and can expect the full project to drop in late October.