Video: "Hello" demo at Ramseur Records HQ

While you may feel for Sam Quinn while listening to The Fake That Sunk a Thousand Ships , there will be moments where you'll wish he'd keep a little bit to himself. Some of these hurts seem better solved in private. Whatever happened when the Everybodyfields split up, it must have been something pretty heavy. Now on his own, Sam Quinn, who fronted the Everybodyfields with Jill Andrews, has his first solo album in The Fake That Sunk a Thousand Ships. All the bitterness, deceit and loss implied by that title comes through on the album. Clearly in [...]

It's easy to say Sam Quinn's music is sad. When you dive below the surface, however, you'll find beauty in his melancholy and heart on his sleeves approach to writing music. At this point in my life, I couldn't be happier. I've been married to a wonderful and beautiful woman for 12 years, I have three great kids, and live in the suburbs. I'm the god-damned American dream, but like most everybody else, I have had my heart broken. Listening to The Fake That Sunk 1,000 Ships takes me back to some traumatic days moping around [...]