Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar release new live album “A Beautiful Buzz”

CANADIAN POWERHOUSE SAMANTHA MARTIN & DELTA SUGAR RELEASE NEW LIVE ALBUM ‘A BEAUTIFUL BUZZ’, A SOUL-DRIVEN, BLUES-SOAKED REVUE CAPTURING ONE OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST ELECTRIFYING VOICES AT FULL FLIGHT, IN THE SPIRIT OF MAD DOGS & ENGLISHMEN

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“The results reveal a band in tune with itself and a love for making music.  They sound just great. If live albums are your thing, go hear this one. It’s terrific.” – Echoes Magazine

“For anyone seeking modern roots music at its most thrilling, this is the front row experience, bottled with warmth, fire and unmistakable soul – a breathtaking experience.” – Blue Matters

“Samantha Martin’s vocal performance soars on these live tracks with impressive, soulful force.  Her vocals demonstrate that she’s up there with the best of contemporary female vocalists.” – Blues in Britain

“Buddy Miles’ ‘Them Changes’ is supercharged psychedelic soul and the Rolling Stones’ ‘Loving Cup’ makes for a rousing finale as Samantha and the band capture the song’s loose feel and spontaneous sounding energy and soul.” – R’N’R Magazine

The CD and limited-edition gatefold double vinyl editions of the album are available via www.samanthamartinmusic.com/store with the digital edition available on all streaming platforms HERE.

The album is preceded by the singles “My Crown,” “The Shape I’m In,” and “Them Changes” — an irresistible first taste of the sweat-soaked, soul-driven performances that define A Beautiful Buzz.

Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar occupy a rare space in modern roots blues music: deeply reverent of soul and gospel tradition, yet unafraid to push those forms into something louder, sweatier, and fiercely alive. Led by Martin’s unmistakable, powerhouse vocal delivery, the band has earned a reputation as one of Canada’s most commanding live acts, equal parts grit, grace, and emotional force.A two-time JUNO Award nominee and seven-time Canadian Blues Award nominee for Female Vocalist of the Year, Samantha Martin has long drawn comparisons to the great soul shouters of the past. As Rhythm & Booze put it, “Samantha Martin’s name can be talked of in the same sentence as Etta James, Tina Turner, and Aretha Franklin. It’s soul for the modern age with a turbocharger.” Paris Move (France) went further, calling her “indispensable, Samantha Martin, the new Southern soul tornado.”

Those comparisons aren’t casual. Over the course of their catalogue, discerning listeners will hear echoes of Mavis Staples, Sharon Jones, Otis Redding, Booker T. & the MG’s, and the Memphis Horns, all filtered through a modern, road-hardened sensibility. It’s classic soul DNA delivered with contemporary urgency and volume. As Glide Magazine noted, “a jaw-dropping display of vocal prowess that highlights this band’s brand of supercharged blues. Comparisons of soul greats run rampant, but like Brittany Howard, Samantha Martin might be the next musical game changer.”

Recorded during the band’s Love Is All Around tour across Western Canada in 2022, A Beautiful Buzz was born under extraordinary circumstances. Originally scheduled for January and repeatedly delayed by the final wave of COVID-era disruptions, the tour finally launched in November, with Martin six months pregnant. Undeterred, a 13-person touring party loaded into a sprinter and rental car and pushed west from the sub-zero cold of Saskatoon toward the West Coast.Night after night, the shows carried a heightened emotional charge, but one final performance stood apart, crackling with urgency, joy, and the awareness that one chapter was closing just as another was about to begin. That moment became A Beautiful Buzz, a testament to resilience, love, and transformation, capturing a band at full throttle and an artist on the edge of profound personal change.

With a new studio album already in development for 2027, A Beautiful Buzz stands not as a detour or placeholder, but as a deliberate statement, finally committing to record the live force that made Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar essential in the first place.The Love Is All Around tour, initially set for January 2022, faced the trials of postponement until November 2022—marking the closing chapter of COVID-era delays.