Sam Amidon
In which folk is the new folk
Turns out Pretty Saro is a tune which was heard quite a bit around the Appalachian mountains during the earlier parts of the twentieth century. It tells the tale of a nameless immigrant who is impressed and intimidated by the lands he now calls home, and misses the woman he left across the ocean.
In his take, which is simply entitled Saro, Sam Amidon hasn’t gone for a tit-for-tat rendition of the old routine, but has rather given us an understated and aching retelling. His soft, weary voice is accompanied by drifts of horns and strings which long for what was left behind, struggling against loneliness.
And no, it’s too sincere a composition to come off as melodramatic. It’s a powerhouse of a folk tune that will fail to touch only the stoniest of souls.
MP3: Sam Amidon - Saro
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