Sam Bergquist “Louisiana Lightning”
Americana Highways brings you this premiere of Sam Bergquist’s song “Louisiana Lightning” from his forthcoming album Devils & Doves, which is slated for release on March 13. This song will be available on Jan 9. Devils & Doves was co-produced by Sam Bergquist and Dave Westner; mixed by Dave Westner; and mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering in Boston with assistant mastering engineer Costanza Tinti.
“Louisiana Lightning” is Sam Bergquist on vocals, acoustic guitar and harmonica; Georgia Bowder Newton on harmony vocals; Jason Altshuler on pedal steel guitar; Dave Westner on bass and drums; and Sean Staples on mandolin.
Being mournful and upbeat at the same time isn’t always easy to accomplish but Sam pulls it off here. A folk song about being in a cafe with traumatic memories of war abruptly intruding, and then, how to live with it all. All while asking “who am I now?”
As Sam tells us about the song, “In rain drenched Louisiana, this song finds a man in a café wrestling with the weight of history and his own buried pain. “That Dixie band ain’t playing,” he observes, as memories of past violence hang in the air. With a soulful undercurrent and haunting refrain—“I don’t know how to cry anymore”—the song asks how we reckon with old wounds that still echo today.”
More detailed information is available here on his website: https://bergquistmusic.com/
