TNL: Serious Sam Barrett, David Broad + Lewis Pugh

Tuesday Night Live: SERIOUS SAM BARRETT, DAVID BROAD and LEWIS PUGH

Doors 7pm Music 7.15pm

Serious Sam Barrett is a hard touring, folk and country singer/songwriter from Otley, West Yorkshire. Playing honest, heartfelt self penned and traditional songs on 12 string guitar and banjo. Raised in the Dales village of Addingham, Sam began performing in and around Leeds in 2004, with word spreading further afield with the release of his 2009 debut album Close To Home. Performing at SXSW in Austin, Texas in 2010, he has toured the US widely, usually in the company of friends and fellow skaters The Pine Hill Haints. Along the way, Sam has shared stages with the likes of Martin Carthy, Dave Burland, Katherine Tickell, Lucero, The Young Un’s, Frank Fairfield, Deer Tick and Karine Polwart, and received airplay and praise plaudits from the BBC’s Bob Harris, Marc Riley and Mark Radcliffe as well as Mike Harding.

“The sustained brilliance of this playing is really something to behold.” Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2
“There’s some real swagger to this” Mark Radcliffe BBC Radio 2 Folk show
“Songs that rattle with the ghosts of Appalachian folk, and southern blues, yet sound emphatically English.” Uncut Magazine

David Broad’s playing is seeped in the tradition of American folk and blues guitar, from the rags of Blind Blake and Reverend Gary Davis, to the delta blues of Robert Johnson and Charley Patton. He is also an accomplished harmonica player in the country blues tradition of Sonny Boy Williamson I and Sonny Terry.
His involvement with the Lindy Hop scene nudged him in the direction of early jazz and swing, but the standards Louis Armstrong may have sung still posses a rural quality. He cut his teeth playing in country and folk bands and will still play the odd bluegrass number if the feeling takes him.
His reworking of traditional songs breathes new life into well worn standards and his original compositions the give a nod to the rootsy side of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Townes Van Zandt.

Lewis Pugh is a prolific songwriter influenced by everything from bluegrass, country and folk through to skiffle and punk. After playing in countless punk and metal bands from age of 12 until 26, Lewis gradually shifted back to the music of his upbringing. Self-releasing his first solo album in 2017, he has since released ‘Dark Wheels turn Above Our Heads’ in 2020 and ‘Bullets for Bread’ in 2024, finding a sound between country, folk and bluegrass with a distinct political slant.

“Lewis Pugh is an instinctive country music and rock & roll natural. Authentic & effortless.” Andy Kershaw

Advance tickets £8/£7 available from HEART reception and online

One the Night £10