Samantha Jane Watkins is a Cambridge based singer-songwriter, with original songs that while being largely alt-country in flavour, have a sprinkling of indie-pop and even a subtle seasoning of punk at times.  

Samantha used to flaunt stripy hair and sing/shout in a punk band so that's not so surprising! In several unmentionable past lives, Sam wrote for and fronted various raucous guitar bands in Birmingham and Malvern, before she moved to a farm just outside of Cambridge, chilled out a bit, and started to experiment with a more rootsy, country sound.  

In the time-honoured tradition of folk and country, Samantha's songs are often stories set to music. She writes prolifically on a broad range of subjects, from hellfire preachers and pizza, to Telecasters and scrap metal dealers, as well as the more mundane aspects of life such as getting drunk, getting arrested, falling over, falling in love and falling out of it again. Sam uses the folk/country style as a springboard to get right down into the dark and ever-so-slightly dishevelled underbelly of her subject matter.  

Sam has just recorded her first 8 track acoustic demo CD, A Songwriter's Mind. She won a finalist position in the 2005 UK Songwriting Competition for the track "Love Song # 9", which is available to listen to on the Music page.