SAM MOSS

Sam Moss is a musician based in Staunton, Virginia. His newest album, Swimming (2025), has been acclaimed by publications like Spin, Uncut, Bandcamp, and Aquarium Drunkard. He has played hundreds of shows around the country, supporting artists like Watchhouse, Jake Xerxes Fussell, and Joan Shelley. He is also a woodworker.

“Swimming foregrounds his graceful guitar playing, his quietly intense vocals, and most of all his observant songwriting, all of which reveal new wisdom with each spin.” - SPIN

"Sublime... the results are so intimate and tactile that you might just feel them slip through your fingers." - Bandcamp

"Ten songs to be discovered, savored, and rediscovered" - Pop Matters

“Each song breathes marvelously, matching the searching, restless nature of Moss’s lyrics perfectly.” - Aquarium Drunkard

“To listen to Swimming, the new album by Sam Moss, is to be confronted by beautiful contradictions. Moss and his ensemble spin a gossamer web of instrumentation around Moss’ earthy voice, at once hopeful and a deliverer of weary wisdom.” - No Depression

THE GREATEST ENDANGERED THING

The Greatest Endangered Thing is a British-American indie folk band.

Formed by Samuel James Taylor and Rebecca Van Cleave, the duo released their debut EP “And You, And Me” in 2021. Their next record Phosphenes, an album in two parts, is set to be released in

2024. Working with highly celebrated musicians including Bellowhead frontman Jon Boden and Michael Rinne (Sarah Jorosz, Miranda Lambert, Mary Gautier) the band recorded Phosphenes: Volume 1 live over 5 days in the summer of 2023 in Sheffield’s Tesla Studios with long time collaborator David Glover. Taylor says “We wanted to capture something raw and real. Something of us that was on the edge of our control, a little out of our depth and scary, something exciting,” Talking about the songs, Van Cleave says, “We started writing the tracks and quickly they became a story. I guess in a way it’s a story about us. But it’s also a story for anyone with a dream. For anyone who’s ever felt disillusioned or lost in the haze of bright lights. It’s a story for the artists and dreamers and lovers and small town kids.”

“…they alternate the spare with the richer sound. Radiating warmth and compassion we must hope for a lot more from this enigmatic folk duo.” - Americana UK

“There are few storytellers more deserving of turning their new beginning into a happy ending than our favourite Transatlantic duo Samuel James Taylor and Rebecca Van Cleave.” - Belwood Music

“With its gorgeous vocal interplay, rich welcoming violin tone, and the dramatic way the drums build, rumble and fade like distant rolling thunder, this track is a stirring spark of greatness that leaves you longing to relive it again.” - Belwood Music

“These songs will tear your soul apart, then build you back whole again.” - Fatea Magazine

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