Sometimes, when I hear a band is coming to town, I like to slow roast the music on my rotation for, I don’t know, about a month. That’s what I’ve been doing with the tunes of Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers, the rootsy indie rock act from Oklahoma that’s playing a free show at McMenamins Old St. Francis School Wednesday night (7pm).

The band, obviously, is led by Samantha Crain, a young, small-statured lady who strums and sings much louder than her size. The sound is reminiscent (and I apologize if this is an easy comparison) of Jenny Lewis when she was playing with the Watson Twins or maybe an even-more Americana-drenched version of the Cave Singers.

Samantha and company have been getting some much-deserved attention from the press and the music-listening community at large this year, making the band just one more act to play the McMenamins tour on a path to something much bigger.

Here’s a video of the band playing in the Paste Magazine studio about a year ago:

This article appears in Oct 8-14, 2009.

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Wednesday Night Music: Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
October 7, 2009

<h1>Wednesday Night Music: Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />October 7, 2009</p> <p>Sometimes, when I hear a band is coming to town, I like to slow roast the music on my rotation for, I don&rsquo;t know, about a month. That&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;ve been doing with the tunes of <a href="http://www.samanthacrain.com/" target="_blank">Samantha Crain and the Midnight Shivers</a>, the rootsy indie rock act from Oklahoma that&rsquo;s playing a <a href="http://www.tsweekly.com/calendars/Clubs-Live-Music/37254-Samantha-Crain-The-Midnight-Shivers.html" target="_blank">free show at McMenamins Old St. Francis School Wednesday night (7pm).</a></p> <p>The band, obviously, is led by Samantha Crain, a young, small-statured lady who strums and sings much louder than her size. The sound is reminiscent (and I apologize if this is an easy comparison) of <a href="http://www.jennylewis.com/intro/" target="_blank">Jenny Lewis</a> when she was playing with the Watson Twins or maybe an even-more Americana-drenched version of the <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thecavesingers" target="_blank">Cave Singers</a>.</p> <p>Samantha and company have been getting some much-deserved attention from the press and the music-listening community at large this year, making the band just one more act to play the McMenamins tour on a path to something much bigger.</p> <p>Here&rsquo;s a video of the band playing in the Paste Magazine studio about a year ago:</p> <p><object><em>You need to use a flashplayer enabled browser in order to view this video</em></object></p> <p> </p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"> <div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> http://www.youtube.com/v/Mn7HIJY2XMA </div> </figure> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/wednesday-night-music-samantha-crain-and-the-midnight-shivers-2134358/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=12238&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/wednesday-night-music-samantha-crain-and-the-midnight-shivers-2134358/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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